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A geologic framework for geothermal systems in the southern Basin and Range province and the southern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
James C. Witcher Southwest Technology Development Institute, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Dept. 3SOL, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Convective geothermal systems in the Rio Grande rift and adjacent areas occur over structurally high terrane
A multiberculate (Mammalia, Allotheria) femur from the Late Cretaceous Fruitland Formation, Fossil Forest Study Area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This is the first report of mammalian postcranial material from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. Quarry of the Fossil Forest has
Petrology of silicic and syenitic facies of the Organ Mountains batholith, Dona Ana County, southern New Mexico
Stephen M. Yanicak1, W. R. Seager1, T. H. Giordano1 and M. O. McCurry2 1New Mexico State University, Geology Department, P.O. Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 2Idaho State University, Geology Department, Pocatello, ID, 83209 The
Epithermal gold-silver mineralization at the Alabama mine, Steeple Rock district, Grant County, New Mexico
Virginia T. McLemore1 and T. Quigley2 1Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Great Lakes Exploration, Inc., 4020 McCulloch
Distribution of high-temperature, high-salinity fluid inclusions in igneous and miarolitic quartz of the Capitan Pluton, New Mexico
Kent Ratajeski1 and Andrew R. Campbell1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Capitan Pluton is a hypabssal, peraluminous alkali granite intrusion which is located in Lincoln County, south-central New Mexico. Comprising the
Digital documentation of deformation and ground-water levels near an earth fissure in the Mimbres Basin, New Mexico
Robert L. Friesen1 and W. C. Haneberg2 1Department of Mineral and Environmental Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Earth
Preliminary Stable-isotope analysis of the Late Mississippian Paradise Formation, Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico
David J. Sivils New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Whole rock isotope analysis of carbonate samples from the upper
Late Devonian Ichthyoliths from the Sacramento Mountains
Kenneth K. Kietzke1 and S. G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Throughout the Sacramento Mountains, the Lower Mississippian (Osagian/Kinderhookian) Caballero Formation disconformity overlies the
Depositional environments of the Panther Seep (Virgilian?-Wolfcampian)-Lower Hueco (Wolfcampian) Formations in the Dona Ana Mountains, New Mexico
Lorena L. Goerger1 and Russell E. Clemons1 1New Mexico State university, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian rocks in the Dona Ana Mountains, consist of (in ascending order) the Panther Seep (which
Dextral oblique-slip deformation along the Montosa fault zone at Abo Pass, Valencia and Socorro Counties, New Mexico
Steven N. Hayden Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM The Montosa Fault (MF) zone bounds the Los Pinos and southern Manzano mountain ranges on their eastern margins. The MF, formerly mapped as
Depositional controls on sandstone petrology and diagenesis of the Point Lookout Sandstones, San Juan Basin, southwestern Colorado
David L. Hicks Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Sedimentary processes active within a depositional environment to a large degree determine the texture and mineralogy of the deposited sediment and influence
Laramide stratigraphy and structural geology of the northern Little Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico
Scott A. Hodgson1, George T. Basabilvazo1 and Timothy F. Lawton1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Detailed mapping (1:12000) and stratigraphic studies have shown that two distinct clastic synorogenic
Mineralogical trends in the detrital clay fraction of the Westwater Canyon Member of the Morrison Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Christopher W. Inoue1 and Laura J. Crossey1 1Dept. of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Authigenic clay minerals are useful indicators of the water/rock interactions in a clastic unit. Mixed-layer illite/smectite (l/S) clays
Vertical distribution of sulfur in a coal seam of the Lee Ranch mine, McKinely County, New Mexico
Abraham Araya1 and F. J. Kuellmer1 1New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Lee Ranch Mine is located in the southeasterly part of the San Juan basin (approximately 30 miles northeast
Jurassic Todilto Limestone–Facies, diagenesis and mineralogy, Grants district, McKinley and Cibola Counties, New Mexico
Augustus K. Armstrong U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Todilto limestone unit of the Wanakah Formation is 1-30 ft (0.3-9.1 m) thick in the Grants district
Depositional and stratigraphic setting of a lower Permian limestone in the southern Mimbres Basin, southwestern New Mexico
Brenda J. Buck1 and Russell E. Clemons1 1New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 A small limestone outcrop 5 km northwest of the Tres Hermanas Mountains in southwestern New Mexico was studied as part
Basement structures and influence on Phanerozoic deformation–Structural data from the Joyita Hills, Socorro County, New Mexico
William C. Beck New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Exposures of Proterozoic rocks within the core of the Joyita Hills display a multitude of planar fabrics, including ductile mylonite zones,
Artificial recharge–An alternative to proposed dams on the Gila River, Grant County, New Mexico
Frederick D. Trauger Geohydrology Associates, Inc., 4015 Carlisle, NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87107 Controversy over the past 40 years has prevented construction on the Gila River of either the first proposed and congressionally authorized Hooker Darn
Fusulininid biostratigraphy of the Bar B Formation (Desmoinesian-Wolfcampian), southern Caballo Mountains, New Mexico
Alan D. Thompson1, William E. King1, Timothy E. Lawton1 and Greg H. Mack1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Thirty-five limestone beds of the Bar B Formation
Reptile footprints from the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation, Cibola County, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1 and Adrian P. Hunt1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 Numerous reptile footprints are preserved as raised casts on a single bedding plane of
Alteration and mineralization in the Carlisle-Center and East Camp area of the Steeple Rock mining district, Grant County, New Mexico–Preliminary observations
Virginia T. McLemore Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, EI Paso, TX, 79968 The Steeple Rock district is in the Summit Mountains in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. An estimated $10 million worth
Rapid at-a-station adjustments of the Rio Puerco, New Mexico, to decadal and centenary mega events
David W. Love1, Richard P. Lozinsky1 and Ellen M. Limburg1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Schumm (1985) proposed that the perceived magnitude of a given geomorphic event decreased when
Ostracods and other microfossils from marginal marine molluscan community in the Laborcita Formation (Permian, Wolfcampian) near Alamogordo, New Mexico
Kenneth K. Kietzke New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 A low diversity/high abundance ostracod fauna has been recovered from a gastropod/ bivalve community in the Laborcita Formation
Triassic nonmarine “Spirorbis” –Gastropods not worms
Kenneth K. Kietzke1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 Calcareous microfossils identified as polychaete worm tubes and assigned to the genus Spirorbis have