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Precambrian geoogy of the Jawbone Mountain area, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Stewart S. Smith Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Precambrian rocks in the Jawbone Mountain area can be grouped into three packages of supracrustal rocks, one of
Snowmelt, ground-water storage and runoff production in several northern New Mexico watersheds–Multiple controls on discharge magnitude and timing
Keith I. Kelson Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Discharge per unit area difiers in both magnitude and timing during spring snowmelt in six adjacent northern New Mexico watersheds. Gneiss and
A field study of the consumptive water use of a Dalea scoparia plant in an arid, sand dune environment, New Mexico
Barbara J. Kickham Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Quantifying water uptake by desert plant roots is highly relevant to groundwater-recharge studies in arid climates. The amount of
Transmissivity estimation and correlation structure in the Columbus Basin, New Mexico
Neil Blandford Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 This summary describes a portion of an ongoing stochastic groundwater modelling study of the Columbus Basin, New Mexico. Transmissivity estimates
Commercial potential of the Buckhorn, New Mexico, clinoptilolite deposit
Mark R. Bowie New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Buckhorn zeolite deposit, discovered in 1962, is a source of high-grade clinoptilolite. The deposit contains two zeolitic air-fall tuffs exposed
Late Paleozoic sea-level fluctuations, northern Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
Arthur L. Bowsher Yates Petroleum Corp., 207 S. 4th St., Artesia, NM, 88210 Reef complexes of Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian age are excellently exposed in the northern part of the Sacramento Mountains. The Lake Valley
Comparison of ground-water-recharge rates based on chloride, stable-isotope, and tritium content of vadose water at the Navajo mine, northwest New Mexico
William J. Stone New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 A preliminary study of recharge at the Navajo Mine, based on a chloride mass-balance approach, indicated are charge rate of 0.51
A preliminary report of a dewatering case history–The San Acacia low flow conveyance channel headworks rehabilitation, Socorro County, New Mexico
W. K. Summers1 and Chester McCallum2 1W. K. Summers and Associates, Inc., Socorro, NM, 87801 2Gracon Corporation, Loveland, CO, 80539 To replace the headworks that divert water from the Rio Grande to the low-flow diversion
Structural and stratigraphic analysis of Precambrian rocks in the Ladron Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico
Keith R. Taylor Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 A stratigraphy characterized by a wide range of metasedimentary and metavolcanic lithologies is present in the Ladron Mountains. Although significantly deformed, a
Microfacies analysis and depositional environment comparison of two sections of Ordovician El Paso Formation, southern Franklin Mountains, west Texas, and northern Big Hatchet Mountains, southwest New Mexico
David T. Million Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The lower Ordovician El Paso Formation contains four members, in ascending order: Hitt Canyon, Jose, McKelligon and Padre.
Formation of tension joints in sedimentary rocks in New Mexico and Virginia
Ronald M. Linden1 and Antonius J. Budding1 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Tension joints in flat-lying sediments are produced during uplift by thf’ release of strain energy
Stratigraphy of the Shell Isleta No. 2 well, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Richard P. Lozinsky New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Petrographic studies of cuttings and core from the Shell Isleta No. 2 oil exploration well provide data on the stratigraphy and
Gigantic bellerophontid gastropods from the Pennsylvanian of the Mud Springs Mountains, New Mexico
Barry S. Kues Dept. of Geology, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Mud Springs Mountains, a few miles northwest of Truth or Consequences, contain a Pennsylvanian section more than 1700′ thick (Kottlowski, 1960).
Chemical analyses of time-dependent samples of ground water collected during pumping tests in New Mexico
W. Kelly Summers1, Geraldine Schwab1 and Lynn A. Brandvold2 1W. K. Summers and Associates, Inc., Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Chemical analyses of 46 time-dependent samples
Fluvial evolution in the Permian Abo and lower Yeso Formations, San Diego Canyon area, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Jeff P. Crabaugh1 and John G. McPherson1 1Department of Geology, The University of Texas, Arlington, NM, 76019 The Abo and Lower Veso Formations in the southeastern Nacimiento and southwestern Jemez Mountains constitute an alluvial plain
Thermal maturation of the Mesilla Valley Formation (late Albian) on the north and east flanks of the Cerro de Cristo Rey pluton, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
William D. Norland Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, El Paso, NM, 79968 Intrusion of the Muleros Andesite pluton (middle Eocene) into Cretaceous rocks in southern Dona Ana Co., N.M., resulted in an
Prediction and testing of collapsing soils in New Mexico
Richard F. Reimers1 and Gary D. Johnpeer1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral, Socorro, NM, 87801 The increasing occurrence of structural failure due to foundation conditions has prompted a number of geotechnical investigations in
Explosive rhyolite rolcanism in the Jemez Mountains–Vent and caldera locations and relationships to regional structures
Stephen A. Self1, J. V. Wright1, F. Goff2, J. Gardner1 and G. Heiken2 1Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76010 2Earth and Space Science Division, Los Alamos National laboratory, Los Alamos,
Geology, geochemistry, and Sr-isotope systematics of Polvadera Group rocks, northern Jemez volcanic field, New Mexico
Bradley S. Singer Dept. of Geology, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Basaltic andesite, andesite, dacite, and rhyodacite of the Pliocene Polva-dera Group on La Grulla Plateau display smooth continuous major element trends. The
A preliminary interpretation of some compositional and textural gradients across a mafic facies of the Organ Needle quartz monzonite, New Mexico
Joan B. Beyer1, M. McCurry1 and W. R. Seager1 1Department of Earth Science, New Mexico State University, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The Organ Needle Quartz Monzonite was the earliest major intrusive phase of
Bedrock influence on semiarid drainage basin evolution in the southeastern Colorado Plateau, New Mexico–Implications for evaluation of stable landscapes
Thomas F. Bullard Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Soils-geomorphic studies and basin morphometric and morphologic analysis form the basis for evaluating the influence of differing bedrock lithology on the geomorphic
How do you want 9,347,473 acres of national forest land in New Mexico managed? (abs.)
Tom Collins Minerals Management USDA, Forest Service (R-3), Federal Building, 6th Floor, 517 Gold Ave., S.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87102 Each of the six National Forests in New Mexico are developing precedent-setting land management plans. These
Silicic pyroclastic deposits of the Puye Formation, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
Bruce N. Turbeville1 and Stephen A. Self1 1Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019 The late Pliocene Puye Formation is a 2 to 3 my oId volcaniclastic alluvial fan sequence that
An integrated isotopic/physical approach to a numerical model of ground-water flow in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
M. K. Tansey1 and F. M. Phillips2 1IT Corporation, 2340 Alamo, S.E., Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87106 2Geoscience Department, NMIMT, Socorro, NM, 87801 A quasi-three-dimensional numerical model of groundwater flow in the Tertiary aquifers of