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Geology of the Four Corners Country

2010
246 pages

James E. Fassett, Kate E. Zeigler, and Virgil Lueth, [editors], 2010, 246 pages. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61

$25.00

Research papers are free to download.
Roadlogs, mini-papers and some other sections are available in print.


SKU: FFC-61

About this guidebook

The 2010 NMGS Fall Field Conference traveled through the Four Corners area in northwestern New Mexico. Day 1 circled the Four Corners Monument with stops in southeastern Utah, northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Day 2 began in Cortez, CO and ended in Farmington and Day 3 began in Farmington and ended on the Ojo Alamo Sandstone south of Carson. Highlights of this conference and guidebook were discussions of Mesozoic stratigraphy, energy and resources from the San Juan Basin and southwestern Colorado and the use of geochronologic methods for refining our understanding of local strata and their fauna and flora.

Best Guidebook Award, 2011 — Geoscience Information Society

Contents & downloads

Note — Downloads of the papers below are free.

Road logs, mini-papers, and some other sections of recent guidebooks are only available in print.

Front Matter

(includes Dedication, President’s Message, & Conference Organizer’s Message)

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Roadlogs

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Jurassic rocks of the Four Corners region – First day road log

Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 1-34.

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Mini-papers

Brushy Basin Member – Lake T’oo’dichi’

Christine E. Turner, pp. 23-24.

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Morrison fluvial stratigraphy

Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 25.

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Junction Creek – Salt Wash intertonguing

Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 25-26.

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Battle Rock Charter School – Salt Wash onlaps Junction Creek

Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 26-27.

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Recapture Member, Aneth area

Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 28-29.

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Recapture Creek: Bluff – Recapture intertonguing

Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 29-30.

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Bluff Gravel Pit and the J-5 unconformity

Fred Peterson, pp. 30-31.

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Montezuma Creek: Brushy Basin Member and Lake T’oo’dichi’

Christine E. Turner, pp. 31-32.

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The Middle Jurassic J-2 unconformity

R. B. O’Sullivan, pp. 32-33.

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Manhunt case closed

Hal Mansfield, pp. 33-34.

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Cretaceous rocks of the San Juan Basin and mineralization in La Plata mountains: Second-day road log from Cortez to La Plata and Durango, Colorado, to Aztec and Farmington, New Mexico

James E. Fassett, Mary L. Gillam, David Gonzalez, and Kimberlee Miskell-Gerhardt, pp. 35-53.

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The Pictured Cliffs at Waterflow, New Mexico

Lorna Gail LaDage, pp. 49-53.

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Geology of the southern San Juan Basin – Third day road log from Farmington south to the Bisti Badlands and east to Barrel Spring locality

James E. Fassett, pp. 55-68.

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The San Juan River dinosaur -bone site

James E. Fassett, pp. 62-65.

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Uranium-vanadium deposits in the Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation, King Tutt Mesa Area, San Juan County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore and William L. Chenoweth, pp. 65-68.

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Papers

Correlation of the upper part of the Middle Jurassic San Rafael Group in northeast Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southeast Utah

Robert B. O’Sullivan, pp. 91-100.

The lower and upper contacts of the Upper Jurassic Bluff Sandstone Member of the Morrison Formation in southeastern Utah

Robert B. O’Sullivan, pp. 101-105.

Dakota Sandstone and lower Mancos Shale stratigraphy at the Red Wash measured section and nearby wells in the Four Corners platform, Navajo Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico

Donald E. Owen, Charles F. Head, and Nicolas R. Brandes, pp. 107-112.

Detrital zircon evidence for derivation of arkosic sand in the eolilan Narbona Pass Member of the Eocene-Oligocene Chuska Sandstone from Precambrian basement rocks in central Arizona

William R. Dickinson, Steven M. Cather, and George E. Gehrels, pp. 125-134.

Implications of U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Mesozoic strata of the Four Corners region for provenance relations in space and time

William R. Dickinson and George E. Gehrels, pp. 135-146.

Geologic implications of an 40AR/39Ar single-crystal sanidine age for an altered volcanic ash bed in the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation in the southern San Juan Basin

James E. Fassett, Matthew T. Heizler, and William C. McIntosh, pp. 147-156.

New insight into the timing and history of diatreme-dike complexes of the northeastern Navajo volcanic fiedl, southwestern Colorado

D. A. Gonzales, B. E. Turner, R. T. Burgess, C. C. Holnback, and M. R. Critchley, pp. 163-172.

Distribution, origin, and mineral resource potential of Late Cretaceous heavy mineral, beach-placer sandstone deposits

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 197-212.

Recommended citation

  1. Fassett, James E.; Zeigler, Kate E.; Lueth, Virgil W., [eds.], 2010, Geology of the Four Corners Country, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 61st Annual Field Conference, 246 pp. ISBN: 9781585460960 https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61