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MINERALOGY OF THE CLAY-SIZE FRACTION OF ADOBE SOILS IN NEW MEXICO: IMPLICATIONS FOR USE IN BUILDING MATERIALS
George S. Austin New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 In 1988, 33 commercial adobe brick producers, 28 pressed-earth-block, and two rammed-earth contractors were located in New Mexico. Extensive analyses of
Analytical electron microscopic characterization of phyllosilicate clays: Electron beam damage and analytical results from the westwater canyon member of the Morrison Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Paul O. Eberly Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Phyllosilicate clays and associated minerals present unique analytical challenges to the low temperature geochemist. Bulk analytical techniques (wet chemistry, x-ray fluorescence, other)
SUPERLATTICE CLAYS IN THE YESO FORMATION, EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO: PRODUCT OF LEONARDIAN HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENTS AND PROCESSES
John R. Macmillian1 and Joan R. Resnick1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Our study, supported by the NMWRRI, revealed the presence in ~15% of our subsurface and surface
ND-SR ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS AND ERUPTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORGAN CAULDRON, SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
D. P. Butcher1 and M. McCurry1 1New Mexico state University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The 32 Ma Organ Cauldron of south central New Mexico exhibits continuous outcrop exposure of: remnants of the cauldron magma chamber
TIMING AND DISTRIBUTION OF OLIGOCENE IGNIMBRITE ACTIVITY IN THE MOGOLLON-DATIL VOLCANIC FIELD, S.W. NEW MEXICO
William C. McIntosh1 and Charles E. Chapin1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 40Ar/39Ar age spectra and paleomagnetic analyses tightly constrain the history of ignimbrite volcanism in the 36-24 Ma
REE DEPOSITS IN NEW MEXICO
Virginia T. Mclemore New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The rare-earth elements (REE) include a group of 15 chemically similar elements called the lanthanide group since lanthanium is the first
THE YESO TYPE SECTION: STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS
Robert M. Colpitts Department of Geosciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The type section of the Yeso Formation was first designated by W. T. Lee in 1909. His section was
THE MINERAL HUNTITE, AN UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE FROM THE FOSSIL FOREST, LATE CRETACEOUS, FRUITLAND FORMATION, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Huntite is an unusual calcium-magnesium carbonate, CaMg3 (CO3)4, first described in 1953 at Currant Creek, Nevada. Hitherto, huntite occurrences have included:
Late Pennsylvanian sedimentation and paleogeography of the Robledo shelf, Sierra County, New Mexico
David S. Singleton1 and Timothy F. Lawton1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Deposited on the inactive margin of Pray’s (1959) Orogrande basin, the Robledo shelf (Meyer,
Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphy, Palo Duro Canyon, Sevilleta Grant, Socorro County, New Mexico
Steven N. Hayden1, S. G. Lucas2, A. P. Hunt2 and William C. Beck3 1Department of Geology, university of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194
Triassic stratigraphy, Colfax and Mora Counties, northeastern New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 Along the Sangre de Cristo front range in Colfax and Mora Counties, Triassic strata
Jointing caused by superficial processes from Upper Cretaceous and Eocene rocks, San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties, San Juan Basin, New Mexico–Implications for inferring subsurface fracture patterns
Neil H., III Whitehead New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, socorro, NM, 87801 Joints caused by relief of in situ stresses associated with the present-day topography are the dominant fracture type in moderately
Mineralogy and use of Cretaceous marine sediments for ceramic products, Anapra, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
M. Nitsymanyana1 and K. F. Clark1 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, EI Paso, TX, 79968 The Cerro Cristo Rey uplift straddles the international border between the State of Chihuahua, Republic of Mexico, and
Relations between heat flow and fluid flow in the Earth’s crust–Examples from New Mexico
Marshall Reiter1, Margaret W. Barroll1, G. Clarkson2, J. Minier3 and D. L. Jordan4 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Geology Dept., Western Michigan
Upper Triassic Owl Rock and Rock Point Members, Chinle Formation, Petaca Pinta, 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 Outcrops of the Owl Rock and Rock Point Members around Petaca Pinta (SW1/4 T6N,
Tectonic disruption of Tijeras Canyon drainage
J. F. Gibbons Applied Research Technical Services, Inc., Albuquerque, NM Examination of remote imagery of Tijeras Canyon drainage and reflection seismic profiles imply disturbance of drainage from Tijeras Canyon. During the deposition of late Tertiary
Carbonate petrography of the limestone-shale member, U-Bar Formation (Aptian-Albian), Sierra Rica, southwestern New Mexico
Rita J. Schuster1 and Russell E. Clemons1 1New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The U-Bar Formation of southwestern New Mexioo contains five informal members. In ascending order they are the brown limestone, oyster
Crustal extension and shoulder uplift in the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico–Half grabens and accommodation zones in the Ladron Peak area
Christopher J. Lewis1 and W. Scott Baldridge2 1Department of Geology, California state University, Los Angeles, CA, 90032 2Earth and Space Sciences Division, MS 0462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico, 87545 Ladron
Conodont biostratigraphy of the Kelly Limestone (Mississippian), central New Mexico
Stanley T. Krukowski Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Kelly Limestone (Mississippian) of central New Mexico is located in widespread outcrops along the western margins of the
Pulchrilamina Early Ordovician labechid stromatoporoid and it’s mounds
David V. LeMone Department of Geological sciences, The University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968 Pulchrilamina is a principal component of the bioherms of the Early Ordovician McKelligon canyon Formation of the El Paso Group.
Strain analysis of allochthonous Permian rocks east side of the Socorro constriction, central Rio Grande rift
Ronald M. Linden1 and Antonius J. Budding1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Allochtonous sheets involving Permian rocks of the Yeso, Glorita, and San Andres Formations are found at
Calcareous microfauna from lake deposit of the Palomas Formation (Tertiary-Quaternary), Sierra County, New Mexico
Kenneth K. Kietzke1, S. G. Lucas1 and R. A. Smartt1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.o. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194 The piedmont facies of the Palomas Formation (santa Fe Group) exposed on the
Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Bisbee Group in the central Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico
Steven N. Hayden1 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, 87194 Gillerman (1958, NMBMMR Bulletin 57) named
Proterozoic granulite facies metamorphism in northern New Mexico
Jeffrey A. Grambling Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Granulite facies metamorphism affected at least 3,000 km3 of the northern Taos and western Cimarron Mountains. Previous work has failed to recognize