New Mexico Geological Society · Socorro, NM

(575) 835-5410

Socorro Region

1963
204 pages

Frederick J. Kuellmer, ed., 1963, 204 pages, (reprinted 1996). https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-14

$10.00

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


SKU: FFC-14

About this guidebook

Welcome to Socorro County! This year we are trying out a new recipe for the field conference. Those of us who agree with Professor H. H. Read that “The best geologist is he who has seen the most rocks” have long wondered whether past field conferences were in fact showing us the rocks we came to see. Was too much time being spent in a speeding car? Were the logistics of maintaining more than 200 people hundreds of miles from home becoming too complicated? This year the emphasis is on small groups, short drives, and long stops at critical exposures. There are 10 field trips to choose from, covering the geology of the Western Bear Mountains, the Joyita Hills, the hydrology of the Socorro area, the Nogal Peak mining district, Socorro Peak and Socorro Mountains, Ojo de la Parida including the Yeso type locality, the Carthage area, Sais quarry and Monotosa thrust fault, New Mexico Insititute of Mining and Technology Seismograph Station, Socorro Mountain, and Water Canyon and South Baldy Peak, Magdalena Mountains. Accompanying these 10 field trips are additional roadlogs along the main highway routes for the above trips.

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

(each includes listed mini-papers)

Road log A, Socorro northward to Valencia County line via Interstate 25, U.S. 85, and U.S. 60

Roy W. Foster and Philip Luce, pp. 6-12.

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Road log B, Junction Interstate 25 to Torrance County line via U.S. 60

Roy W. Foster and Philip Luce, pp. 13-19.

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Road log C, Socorro westward to Catron County line, via U.S. 60

Robret H. Weber and M. E. Willard, pp. 20-25.

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Road Log D, Socorro to Sierra County lines, via U.S. 85

Roy W. Foster and Philip Luce, pp. 26-30,.

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Road log E, San Antonio, New Mexico (at junction U.S. 380 and U.S. 85) to Lincoln County line via U.S. 380

Roy W. Foster and Philip Luce, pp. 31-37.

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Field trip 1, Western Bear Mountains

Robert H. Weber and M. E. Willard, pp. 38-41.

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Field trip 2, Joyita Hills

F. J. Kuellmer and F. E. Kottlowski, pp. 42-52.

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Field trip 3, Hydrology of the Socorro area

Hall, Francis, R., pp. 53-60.

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Field trip 4, Nogal Peak mining district

George B. Griswold, pp. 60-66.

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Field trip 5, Socorro Peak and Socorro Mountains

Clay T. Smith, pp. 66-68.

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Field trip 6, Ojo de la Parida area, Yeso type locality

Robert A. Bieberman, pp. 69-73.

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Field trip 7, Carthage area

Antonius J. Budding, pp. 74-77.

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Field trip 8, Sais quartzite quarry, and Montosa thrust fault

Antonius J. Budding, pp. 78.

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Field trip 9, N.M.I.M.T. seismograph station, Socorro Mountain, Socorro County, New Mexico

Allan R. Sanford, pp. 79.

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Field Trip 10, Water Canyon and South Baldy Peak, Magdalena Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico

Antonius J. Budding, pp. 80-85.

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Supplementary road log, Cerros de Amado red bed copper deposits

Frank E. Kottlowski, pp. 86-87.

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Supplementary road log, Southern Ladron Mountains

G. C. Evans and Philip Luce, pp. 88-95.

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Papers

Index map of the principal mining districts of Socorro County

George B. Griswold, pp. 97.

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Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Mississippian System, west-central New Mexico

Augustus K. Armstrong, pp. 112-122.

Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in Socorro valley, New Mexico

Bruce DeBrine, Z. Spiegel, and D. Williams, pp. 123-131.

Preliminary notes on the geology of part of the Socorro Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico

Clay T. Smith, pp. 185-196.

Precambrian geology of the Sais quartzite quarry

Antonius J. Budding and Dan J. Hartman, pp. 204-208.

Geology and sedimentation along the lower Rio Salado in New Mexico

George C. Evans, pp. 209-216.

K-Ar ages of Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks in Socorro, Catron, and Grant Counties, New Mexico

Robert H. Weber and William A. Bassett, pp. 220-223.

Potassium-argon dates, Socorro and Sierra counties, New Mexico

W. H. Burke, G. S. Kenny, J. B. Otto, and W. H. Burke, pp. 224.

Recommended citation

  1. Kuellmer, F. J.; [ed.], 1963, Socorro Region, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 14th Annual Field Conference, 204 pp. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-14