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Geology of the Tusas Mountains and Ojo Caliente

2011
418 pages

Daniel J. Koning, Karl E. Karlstrom, Shari A. Kelley, Virgil W. Lueth, Scott B. Aby, [editors], 2011, 418 pages.

$23.00

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


SKU: FFC-62

About this guidebook

The 2011 NMGS Fall Field Conference, based out of Espanola, traveled through the Tusas Mountains of north central New Mexico. Mesa de la Jarita was the focus of day 1 with stops focused on the Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks with additional stops featuring Tertiary volcanic rocks of the area. Day 2 concentrated on the Tertiary rocks that lie directly on the Proterozoic in the Tres Piedras, Rio Tusas, and El Rito areas. Day 3 centered on the Ojo Caliente area with specialized field trips that concentrated on Proterozoic metamorphic rocks at Cerro Colorado, the Ojo Caliente tuff ring, La Madera traverines, and the Tertiary geology of the Arroyo Seco area. Nineteen research papers explore a wide variety of geologic subjects and 15 color plates help illustrate the geology of the field conference area.

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.

Roadlogs

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Mesa de La Jarita: First-day road log from Espanola to Mesa de la Jarita via Ojo Caliente and Rio Vallecitos

Daniel Koning, Karl E. Karlstrom, Aby, Scott, Kempter, Kirt, Tony Benson, and Benjamin Drenth, pp. 1-60.

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Mini-papers

Summary of the North Railroad Avenue Plume Superfund Site

Steve Jetter, pp. 43-44.

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Chimaja: Spring-parsley of the desert

Kurt E. Sickafus, pp. 44-46.

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Archaeology of the Rio Ojo Caliente province

Richard I. Ford, pp. 46-49.

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A brief history of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico

Daniel J. Koning, pp. 50-51.

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High-level, quartzitic gravel deposits in the southern Tusas Mountains and development of the fault-bounded escarpment east of the Rio Vallecitos

Daniel J. Koning, pp. 52-54.

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Hydrogeologic regions of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Finch, Steven T., Jr., Embid, , Eileen, and Chance Coats, pp. 55-57.

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The Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit

Gabriel M. Romero, pp. 57.

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Big Rock and adjacent kyanite deposits, Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 58-59.

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The Apache Pegmatite Mine, Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 59-60.

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Tres Piedras, Rio Tusas, and El Riot: Second-day road log from Espanola to Tres Piedras and then down the Rio Tusas (passing Las Tablas, Petaca, and La Madera) to El Rito

Daniel Koning, Kirt Kempter, Scott Aby, Tony Benson, and Karl Karlstrom, pp. 61-117.

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Mini-papers

Poseyemu, the Pan-Pueblo culture hero

Daniel J. Koning, pp. 99.

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The Embudo local fauna from a high altitude Pliocene fossil site in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Scott B. Aby and Gary S. Morgan, pp. 100-101.

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The Santa Fe Branch, aka ‘Chili Line’, of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad

Scott Aby, pp. 102.

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Stratigraphy near South Petaca, north-central New Mexico

Daniel J. Koning, Scott B. Aby, and Kirt A. Kempter, pp. 102-105.

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Structural, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, geochemistry, and paleomagnetic investigations of a steeply dipping, welded tuff (Amalia Tuff) south of Petaca, New Mexico

Lorraine Garcia, Michael Petronis, Daniel Koning, Matt Zimmerer, and Nelia Dunbar, pp. 105-109.

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Globe pegmatite mine, Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 109-110.

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Late Oligocene-early Miocene stratigraphy in Lower Canon de los Alamos, and evolution of early rift drainages northeast of La Madera

Daniel J. Koning, pp. 110-113.

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My hometown, El Rito

Epseranza Gonzales, pp. 113-115.

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The Old Normal School at El Rito: A brief history

Sigfredo Maestas, pp. 115-117.

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Ojo Caliente area: Third-day road log from Espanola to Ojo Caliente, and then four trip options: Ojo Caliente tuff ring, Cerro Colorado, La Madera travertines, or Arroyo Seco

Daniel J. Koning, Kirt Kempter, Karl Karlstrom, Laura Crossey, Jud May, and Robert Horning, pp. 119-138.

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Hydrogeology of southwestern Taos County

Tony Benson and Gervason,, pp. 139-142.

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The Ojo Caliente tuff ring

S. Judson May and Robert Horning, pp. 142-143.

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Joseph Pegmatite Mine, Ojo Caliente No. 1 district, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 144.

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Papers

Geophysical expression of elements of the Rio Grande rift in the northeast Tusas Mountains – Preliminary interpretations

Benjamin J. Drenth, Kenzie J. Turner, Ren A. Thompson, V. J. S. Grauch, Michaela A. Cosca, and John P. Lee, pp. 165-176.

Structural evolution and timing of deformation along the Proterozoic Spring Creek shear zone of the northern Tusas Mountains

Peter Davis, Mike Williams, and Karl Karlstrom, pp. 177-190.

The late Oligocene Cieneguilla basanites, Santa Fe County: Records of early Rio Grande rift magmatism

Jennifer Lindline, Michael Petronis, Rachell Pitrucha, and Salvador Sena, pp. 235-250.

Recent mapping of the Oligo-Miocene Los Pinos Formation and associated units in the Tusas Mountains, New Mexico

Scott B. Aby, Kirt Kempter, and Daniel Koning, pp. 275-280.

Terrace stratigraphy, ages, and incision rates along the Rio Ojo Caliente, north-central New Mexico

Daniel J. Koning, Dennis L. Newell, Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki, Nelia Dunbar, Karl Karlstrom, Anthony Salem, and Laura Crossey, pp. 281-300.

The La Madera Travertines, Rio Ojo Caliente, northern New Mexico: Investigating the linked system of CO2-rich springs and travertines as neotectonic and paleoclimate indicators

Laura Crossey, Karl E. Karlstrom, Dennis L. Newell, Ara Kooser, and April Tafoya, pp. 301-316.

A new discovery of a skeleton of the horse Protohippus?, and a summary of the Miocene (Barstovian) fossil localities near Dixon, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Gary S. Morgan, Aby, Scott, B., and Makaela Vogel, pp. 339-346.

A paleontological survey of a part of the Tesuque Formation near Chimaya, New Mexico, and a summary of the biostratigraphy of the Pojoaque Member (Middle Miocene, Late Barstovian)

Scott B. Aby, Gary S. Morgan, and Daniel J. Koning, pp. 347-358.

Quartz-kyanite pods in the Tusas Mountains, northern New Mexico: A sheared and metamorphosed fossil hydrothermal system in the Vadito Group metarhyolite

Mary C. Simmons, Karl E. Karlstrom, Michael W. Williams, and Toti E. Larson, pp. 359-378.

Geology and mineral resources in the Hopewell and Bromide No. 2 districts, northern Tusas Mountains, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 379-388.

Rare earth bearing-minerals of the Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Michael N. Spilde, Steve Dubyk, Brian Salem, and William P. Moats, pp. 389-398.

Uranium deposits in the Espanola Basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, David Vaniman, Dennis McQuillan, and Patrick Longmire, pp. 399-408.

Recommended citation

  1. Koning, Daniel J.; Karlstrom, Karl E.; Kelley, Shari A.; Lueth, Virgil W.; Aby, Scott B., 2011, Geology of the Tusas Mountains and Ojo Caliente, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 62nd Annual Field Conference, 418 pp. ISBN: 9781585460977