Structure of the Guadalupe Box area, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national standard for geologic guidebooks and are an essential geologic reference for anyone working in or around New Mexico.
Distribution and Correlation of Pennsylvanian Rocks in Late Paleozoic Sedimentary Basins of Northern New Mexico
The most useful classification of the Pennsylvania series in northern New Mexico is by the lithologic character of the rocks, supplemented by paleontologic data where available. Few of the boundaries are sharp. The strata represent a single major sedimentary cycle, comprising, in ascending order, a suite of transgressive sediments, a widely distributed marine phase, and an unevenly distributed regressive phase, followed by continental sediments. For the marine part of the sequence the term "Magdalena group" is used, including the Sandia formation and the Madera limestone, the latter containing several named members. The positions of major positive areas and of depositional basins, total thicknesses, and general character of the sediments are indicated on a map of northern New Mexico, and detailed local sections are shown graphically in several charts.
The occurrence of gas in the Cretaceous rocks of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
Since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society has held an annual Fall Field Conference that visits some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed papers. These books have set the national standard for geologic guidebooks and are an important reference for anyone working in or around New Mexico.