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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
Neotectonic analysis of rift-margin faults in the Abiquiu embayment of the Rio Grande rift, northern New Mexico
Mark A. Gonzalez Dept. of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Neotectonic analysis in the Abiquiu embayment of the Rio Grande rift, northern New Mexico, was conducted to determine the kinematics, timing, magnitude,
A Late Pennsylvanian Lingula-Solemya-Myalina community, Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mounatins, Central New Mexico
Barry S. Kues Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Kinney quarry exposes a Virgilian sequence in the Madera Group that changes up-section from a dark gray, hard, platy, argillaceous limestone
TETRAPOD FAUNA OF THE REDONDA FORMATION (UPPER TRIASSIC), EAS’rCENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Adrian P. Hunt New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194-7010 The Upper Triassic Redonda Formation is widely exposed in Quay and Guadalupe Counties in east-central New Mexico in the Tucumcari
Late Triassic fish from the Tucumcari Basin, East-Central New Mexico
Phillip Huber1, Adrian P. Hunt2 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 New finds
SOME TRIASSIC (CARNIAN) MICROFOSSILS FROM THE TECOVAS FORMATION, DOCKUM GROUP, NEAR KALGARY, TEXAS AND THEIR STRATIGRAPHIC IMPORTANCE
Kenneth K. Kietzke1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194 Recent screenwashing of material from the Tecovas Formation (Triassic, Carnian) near Kalgary, Texas by the New
LATE CRETACEOUS SELACHIAN FAUNA FROM THE MULATTO TONGUE OF THE MANCOS SHALE, CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 New Mexico
GROUND-WATER GEOHYDROLOGY OF CARRIZO WASH BASIN IN CATRON AND CIBOLA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO
Robert G. Myers U.S. Geological Survey, Department 3167, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-0001 Major aquifers in the Carrizo Wash basin are present in the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone and the Mesaverde
NEW MEXICAN ADOBE RELATED TO OTHER ADOBES
George S. Austin1 and Tanya G. Brickell2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral I Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 A recent study of
LANDFILL WASTE-DISPOSAL FACILITIES IN ARID AND SEMIARID REGIONS-A PRESENT AND FUTURE MINERAL RESOURCE
John W. Hawley New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 A successful extractive-minerals operation has always involved temporary storage of mine-mill by-products that can be reprocessed when economic
LEAD CONTAMINATION OF SOIL NEAR THE ABANDONED BILLING SMELTER, SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
George S. Austin1, Lynn A. Brandvold1 and William J. Stone1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Billing smelter slag and waste piles in Park city near the southern border of
Applications of Pyrolysts-Gas Chromatography of Fossil Resin
Diane Bellis1 and Donald L. Wolberg1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Pyrolysis-gas chromatography provides a means of distinguishing fossil resin of different geological and botanical origin. The data described
RECENT STUDIES OF THE MEGAFLORA OF THE COAL-BEARING FRUITLAND FORMATION (CAMPANIAN-MASTRICHTIAN), SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
D. L. Wolberg1, D. Bellis1, L. Howe1 and D. Hallock1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This report documents paleofloral localities with exceptionally well preserved fossil material in the Campanian-Mastrichtian
ALLOCHTHONOUS PERMIAN ROCKS IN THE SOCORRO REGION OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT: A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF EMPLACEMENT AND DEFORMATION
Ronald M. Linden1 and A. J. Budding1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Allochthonous Permian rocks of the Yeso, Glorieta, and San Andres Formations are present at a number
GEOLOGY OF THE RED RIVER DISTRICT, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Thomas T. Roberts1, Virginia T. Mclemore2 and Gary A. Parkison3 1New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 3Westmont Mining Co., Denver,
Geologic map and descriptions of volcanic rock units of an area in the southern San Mateo Mountains, Socorro county, New Mexico
Michael L. Hermann1 and Eugene W. Cox2 1 5001 Northern Trail, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87120 2 P.O. Box 3389 C. S., Socorro, NM, 87801 The map area comprises approximately 50 square miles (75.8 square km)
Carbonate depositional environments of the Middle Permian (Leonardian) San Andres Formation in the southern Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico
Christopher F. Whitman1 and Russell E. Clemons1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Ninety-seven meters of the basal, massive- to medium-bedded, Rio Bonito Member of the San Andres Formation
A stable-isotope study of soil water, Sevilleta Refuge, New Mexico
Russell J. Vanlandingham1 and Andrew R. Campbell1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 In May of 1989 drill core samples were collected from two sites for a stable isotopic study of meteoric recharge
Type section of the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 The Nacimiento Formation (TN)
Gas analysis of fluid inclusions–Application toward precious-metal exploration, Steeple Rock district, Grant County, New Mexico
Randy K. Ruff1 and David I. Norman1 1New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Socorro, NM, 87801 Boiling of hydrothennal fluids is a mechanism commonly associated with deposition of epithennal ore
Juxtaposition of contrasting Proterozoic tectonometamorphic units in the northern Taos Range, New Mexico
Jane N. Pedrick1 and Jeffrey A. Grambling1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Three different tectonometamorphic units are juxtaposed across ductile shear zones in the northern Taos Range. Published U-Pb zircon
Structural geology of the Gonzales Precambrian block, east of Socorro, New Mexico
Clay T. Smith1, Robert M. Colpitts1 and W. Gage1 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Various investigators have interpreted exposures of Precambrian rocks east of Socorro as “islands”