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+Mines, mills and quarries in New Mexico,
compiled by K. S. Hatton, J. M. Barker, and
R. S. King, 1991.,57 pp., I sheet, scale
1:250,000.
with text, scale 1.:24,000.
$4.00
El Morro 71/z' quadrangle is in Cibola
County, 35 mi southwest of Grants along the
south flank of the Zuni Mountains. Elevations range from approximately 7,135 ft in
the drainagenetworks along the west-central
and southwest boundaries of the quadrangle
to 7,400 ft at Inscription Rock in El Morro
National Monument, 7,790 ft on the mesa
eastof El Morro, and over 8,000ft in the Zuni
Mountains in the far northeast comer of the
quadrangle. Lower Permian (Glorieta Sandstone) through Upper Cretaceous (Dakota
Sandstone) rocks are exposed in the north. east and southwest parts of the map area,
respectively. The vast North Plains basalt
flows cover nearly half of the quadrangle,
filling broad valleys eroded in the Chinle Formation. Pleistoceneand Holocene alluvial,
colluvial, and eolian depositscoverextensive
areas of bedrock and basalt. Bedrock generally dips southward and southwestward
away from the Zuni uplift. The Valle Largo
fault, although not visible in outcrop, is indicated by contorted bedding and severalminor folds and flexures. ln the southwest comer
of the quadrangle, the Davis anticline is offset 1.5 mi to the north by a hypothesized
local shear zone. GM-72 includes historical
notes on El Morro, the legendary stoppint
place for prehistoric Indians, Spanish, and
American travelers. The authors describe a
natural rockfall origin for the famous permanent water hole. GM-72 alsoincludes one
cross section and 15 map-unit descriptions.
'Cirorlar 2Ol-Developments in uranium
durTgl90, byW. L. Chenoweth,l99l, 13pp.,
7 tables, I fig.
Si.50
Low prices, inventory liquidations, and
foreign competition continued to plague the
domestic uranium industry. Exploration expenditures in the United Statescontinued at
a very low level. Production of uranium concentrate decreasedmarkedly. At the end of
1990, two uranium mills wire operating in
the United States. In New Mexico, the closure of Chevron Resources'Mount Taylor
underground mine, the Homestake Miriing
Co. rnill, and Homestake'splant that recovered uranium from mine water left the state
with only 3% of the total United Statesuranium production. For the seventh consecutive year, Canada was the world's largest
producerand exporter of uranium. The la1ge,
figh-gfade reseryesbeing developed in Siskatchewan will enable Canada t6 dominate
the world market for many years. Uranium
entering the market place'frbm eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, and from
China will continue to keep prices low. Domestic uranium productiorr is expected to
decline in 1991as additional mine and solution mining operations are closed.
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February 1992 New Mexico Gmlogy
$5.00
The data on mining operations were compiled jointly by the Mining and Minerals Division of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals
and Natural ResourcesDepartment and the
New Medco Bureau of Mines and Mineral
Resourcesfrom regishations received by fune
l, 1991.Mines and mills (in the first section
of the report) and pits and quarries (in the
second section) are numbered, listed alphabetically by county, coded with a symbol
identifying the type of operation, and plotted on a 1.:250,000-scale
map. Specific data
listed in the report for eachentry include the
name of the operation, the commodity mined
or milled, ownership, address, current status,
and location (township and range).
*Guide to Bureau services,1992,30 pp. FREE
This pamphlet describesthe servicesand
facilities available to the citizens of New
Mexico; includes a staff directory.
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PnorrssroNeL PApER
l5l2-Description
and development of the
Cordilleran orogenic belt in the Southwestern United States and northem Mexico, by
H. Drewes, 1991,92pp., 2 plates.
BuLr-suNs
1934-Shorter contributions to paleontology and
stratigraphy, edited by W. J. Sando, 1991,45
PP.
l972-Coalfields of New Mexico: geology and
rresources,edited by C. L. Molnia, D. A. Jobin,
J. T. O'Connor, and F. E. Kottlowski, 191,
n pp.
Cnculan
1063-Mineral resourceinformation sourcesin
the Westem United States, edited bv S. M.
Marcus, 1991,52pp.
Mrscrneweous rhrvESTrcATroNS
sERIFsMAIS
I-2083-Geologic and structure contour map
of the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation
and adjacentareas,southwest Colorado and
northwest New Mexico, by S. M. Condon,
191, scalel:100,000.
I-2l44-Geologic map of the Big Hatchet
Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico,
by H. Drewes, 191, scale l:24,ffi.
l-2278-Geolo6ic map of the Twin Buttes
quadrangle,McKinley County, New Mexico,
by M. L. Millgate, 191, scale 7:24,W.
Waren-nssouRcEs lNVEsrrcATroNS
WRl-89-4{f9-Geohydrology
of the Morrison
Formation in the westem San Juan Basin,
New Mexico, bv G. E. Welder and R. L.
Klausing, 190, i sheet.
WRl-89-4083-Ground-water resourcesof Socorro County, New Mexico, by F. E. Roybal,
191, 103pp., 2 sheets.
WRl-gl-4BfReconnaissance
hvestigation
of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota
associated with irrigation drainage in the
middle Rio Grande valley and Bosque del
Apache National Wildlife Refuge,New Mexico, 1988-89,by K. Ong, T. F. O'Brien, and
M. D. Rucker, 1991,113 pp.
Mrscrlr-aNsous INDEX
Index to national aerial photography program
(NAPP) color infrared photography, l9l,
nominal scale 1:40,000
publlcations
Other
law: time for reform:
Baca,I., 1991,1872llr,rlr.ing
Geotimes, v. 35, no. 71, p. 6.
Borer,f. M., and Harris, P. M.,1991, Lithofaciesand cyclicity of the YatesFormation, Permian Basin: implications for reservoir
heterogeneity: American Association of Petroleum Geologists,Bulletin, v. 75, no. 4, pp.
726-n9.
Brinster, K. F., 1991, Preliminary geohydrologic conceptual model of the Los Medanos
region near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
for the purpose of performanceassessment:
SandiaNational laboratories, Rept. SAND897147,v ariously paginated.
Chafetz, H. S., Utech, N. M., and Fitzmaurice,
S. P., 191, Differencesin the 6rtO and 6r3C
signatures of seasonal laminae comprising
travertine stromatolites:Joumal of Sedimentary Pehology, v. 61, no. 6, pp. f015-1028.
Devine, P. 8., 1991, Transgressiveorigin of
channeled estuarine deposits in the Point
Lookout Sandstone, northwestern New
Mexico: a model for Upper Cretaceous, cyclic
regressive parasequencesof the U.S. WesF
em Interior: American Association of Petro
leum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 75, no. 6, pp.
1039-1063.
Eberth, D. A., and Miall, A. D.,1991, Stratigraphy, sedimentologyand evolution of a vertebrate-bearing, braided to anastomosed
fluvial system, Cutler Formation (PerrnianPennsylvanian), north<entral New Mexico:
Sedimentary Geology, v. 72, pp. 225-252.
Ehgartner, 8 ., T99l , Structural analysesand design of a concrete liner that limits the disturbed rock zone around underground
openings in salt: Sandia National Laboratories, Rept. SAND90-2702,6 pp.
Fitzmaurice, S. P., 1990,The petrography, geochemistry, and depositional environments
of travertines of the Palm Park Formation
(Eocene), Caballo Mountains, New Mexico:
MS thesis, University of Houston.
Haneberg, W. C., and Tripp, G., 1991,An irrigation-induced debris flow in northem New
Mexico: Association of Engineering Geologists, Bulfetin, v. 28, no. 4, pp.359-j74.
Hawley, J. W., and Longmire, P. A., l9l, Site
characterization and selection; iz Reith, C.
C., and Thomson, B. M. (eds.), Deserts as
dumps-the disposalof hazardousmaterials
in arid ecosvstems:UniversiW of New Mexico Press,Aibuquerque, pp. SZ-SS.
fohnson, A. I., editor, 191, I-and subsidence:
International Association of Hydrological
Sciences, Publication No. 200, 590 pp. (includes Geophysical characterization of soil
deformation associatedwith earth fissures
near San Marcial and Deming, New Mexico,
by W. C. Haneberg, C. B. Reynolds, and I
B. Reynolds,pp.27l-280; and Earth fissures
and land subsidenceof the Mimbres Basin,
southwestemNew Mexico,U S.A., by G. J
Contaldoand J. E. Mueller, pp. 301-312).
Kerans, C., 1991,Characterizationof faciesand
permeability pattems in carbonatereservoirs
basedon outcrop ana.logs:University ofTexas
(Austin), Bureau of EconomicGeology,6 p.;
National TechnicalInformation Service,Rept.
DE92Cfo272.
Law, B. E., 1982,Thermal maturiW patterns of
Cretaceousand Tertiaryrocks,SanJuan Basin, Colorado and New Mexico: Geological
Society of America, Bulletin, v. 1M, no. 2,
pp.792-207.
Patton,P.C., Biggar,N., Condit, C. D., Gillam,
M. L., Love, D. W., Machette,M. N., Mayer,
L., Morrison,R. 8., and Rosholt,fohn-N.,
191, Quatemary geology of the Colorado
Plateau;ln Morrison, R. B. (ed.),Quatemary
nonglacial geology: conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of
North America, v. K-2, pp.373-4M.
Mazzullo, J., Malicse,A.,;nd Siegel,J., 191,
Faciesand depositional environments of the
Shattuck Sandstoneon the Northwest shelf
of the PermianBasin:foumal of Sedimentary
Petrology,v. 61, no. 6, p.940-958.
Mining and Construction Group, 7997, 7992
E&MJ intemational directory of mining: Madean Hunter PublishingCo., Stamford,Conn.
Mining and Construction Group, 1997, 1992
Keystone coal industry manual: Maclean
Hunter Publishing Co., Stamford, Conn.
Molecke,M. A., and Lappin, A. R., 190, Test
plan addendum #1: WasteIsolationPilot Plant
bin-scale CH TRU waste tests: Sandia National laboratories, Rept. SAND 90-2082, f03
PP.
Nations, J. D., and Eaton,J. G., editors,191,
Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and
sedimentary tectonics of the westem mar-
TopographiG
maps
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*Antelope Ridge
+Applegate Mountain
*Brushy Mountain
*Bullard Peak
*Canador Peak
*Caprock Mountain
*cliff
*Crookson Peak
*Eagle Eye Peak
*Mangas Springs
*Nichols Canyon
*Redrock
*Rock Tank Draw
*Steeple Rock
*Walker Canyon
*Willow Draw
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stone on the Defiance Plateau, eastern
Arizona: The Mountain Geologist, v. 28, no.
a, pp.2-70.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management,1991, Albuquerque District proposed resourcemanagement
plan
amendment/final
environmentalimpact statement- oil and gas
leasingand development:U.S. Bureauof land
Management, Albuquerque Dstrict Office,
variously paginated.
U.S. Dept. of Energy,1991,Geotechnicalfield
data and analysisreport, July 1989-fune190:
U.S. Department of Energy, WIPP Project
Office, Rept. DOE /VPP 9l-012,2 volurnes,
variously paginated.
Valentine,G. A., Wohletz,K. H., and Kieffer,
S. W., 1942,Effectsof topography on facies
and compositionalzonation in caldera-related ignimbrites: Geological Society of
America,Bulletin,v. 104,no 2, pp.llc4-165
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*90-4Zl-Preliminary geologic map and sections of the Walker Canyon quadrangle, Grant
and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico, by D.
C. Hedlund, 1990,scalel:24,000.
$3.00
90-556-Abstracts of the U.S. GeologicalSurvey, central region, 1990poster review, compiled by C. E. Barkerand A. B. Coury 190,
31 PP.
9lJl-Short
paperson water resourcesin New
Mexico, 7937-57, by C. V Theis et al., 7991,
n PP.
91-196-Historic water-quality data, Puerco
River basin, Arizona and New Mexico, by L.
Wirt. P.C. VanMetre, and B. O. Favor,799l,
339 pp.,2 sheets.
+91-23l-Water-resources activities of the U. S.
GeologicalSurvey in New Mexico, fiscalyear
1990,by H. R. AIIen, 1991,93pp., 3 tables,
6 figs
$18.60
reports
Open-file
iIMBMMR
pp. 189-2@).
Nymeyer, R., and Halliday, W. R., 191, Carlsbad Cavem, the earlv vears: Carlsbad Caverns-Guadalupe Mountains Association.
Carlsbad,New'Mexico, 156pp.
Parsons,T., and Thompson, G. A., 191, The
role of magma overpressurein suppressing
earthquakesand topography: worldwide exarnples: Science,v. 253, no. 5026,pp. 13997N2.
Reiter,M., Barroll,M. W., and Minier, 1.,1991,
An overview of heat flow in southwestem
United States and northern Chihuahua,
Mexico;in Slemmons,D. B., Engdahl,E. R.,
Zoback,M. D., and Blackwell,D. D. (eds.),
Neotectonics of North America: Geological
Society of America, DecadeMap Volume 1,
pp.457-466.
Riess,R. 8.,l9%, Evolutionof the Upper Cretaceous(Cenomanian)Beartooth sandstone,
southwestem New Mexico: MS thesis, Stepien F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.
Soot, P. M., 1991, Method forecasts coalbed
methane production: Oil and Gas foumal,
October 28, pp.52-54.
Stanesco,I. D.,1991, Sedimentologyand cyclicity in the Lower Permian De Chelly Sand-
contour
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*353-Uranium mines and deDositsin the
Grants district, Cibolaand M&inley Counties, New Mexico, by V. T. Mclemore and
W. L. Chenoweth, 22 pp., 2 tables, 8
maps.
$14.90
*379-New Mexico hydrocarbon source-rock
evaluation project, New Well Peaksectionin
Big HatchetMountains,Hidalgo County, New
Mexico, by G. S. Baylissand R. R. Schwarzer,
1992,49 pp., 5 tables,3 appendices. $9.80
*380-Geology of the southem part of the Fra
Cristobal Range, Sierra County, New Mexico, by S. Thompson IlI, 1992, 93 pp., 4
figs.
923.10
+38l-Petrographic and well-log analysis of four
exploration wells in southwestem New Mexico, by R. E. Clemonsand T. F. Lawton, 1991,
97 pp.,12 figs., 4 appendices.
$20.90
*382-Adobe bricks in New Mexico, by E. W.
Smith, 192, 16 architecturaldrawinls (figs.
87-102 from Circular 188).
$3.20
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87-547-Estimates of dissolved solids and major dissolved constituents for 70 sheamflowgaging stations in the upper Colorado River
basin, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah,
and Wyoming, by B. D. Nordlund and T. D.
Liebermann, 798o,M7 pp.
Neu Mexico Gmlogy February 7992
NewMexico
Bureau
of Mines
andMineralResources
statfnotes
Steve Haasejoined us as Ground-Water Geologist and Debbie Goering as Staff Secretary.
]iri Zidek is on sabbaticalleavein Prague,Czechoslovakia. Anniversaries for our staff with
five or more years of service from December
l9l
through February 1992 were: Richard
Chavez, 35; Lois Devlin, 30; Mickey Wooldidge,21; Ruben Crespin, 17; Robert Eveleth,
14; Don Wolberg, 13; Iim Barker and firi Zidek, 9; Carol Hiellming, 8; and Chris McKee,
5. NMBMMR staff honored at Tech Awards
luncheon December 11 were: Mickey Wooldndge,20; |ane Love and Ron Broadhead, 10;
Steve Cather, Becky Titus, and Monte Brown,
5.
At the national GeologicalSocietyof America meeting in San Diego, Richard Charnberlin
presented a paper written with Oriri Anderson,'A micro-indentation-extrusion tectonic
model for the l.aramide Zuni Uplift, west-central New Mexico"; Bill Haneberg presented
"Grain-size distributions and sedimentary facies associatedwith a modem debris flow in
northern New Mexico" and attended a fractal
teometry short course;SteveHaaseco-chaired
sessiontitled "Site characterizationstudies related to ground-water and surface-watercontamination at sites operated by the U. S.
Department of Energy" and presented paper,
"Characteristics and modes of occurrence of
contaminantson the U.S. Departmentof Energy Reservation,Oak Ridge, Tennessee";Virginia Mclemore attended field trip on
epithermal mineralization; James Robertson
participated in council meetings of Society of
Economic Geologists; Don Wolberg attended
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings.
Frank Kottlowski presentedthe Frye Award at
mid-year meeting of AASG in San Dego, which
was also attended by fanres Robertson. A.lso
attending GSA were George Austin and Paul
Bauer.
Other meetings attended by NMBMMR staff
were: the annual ExtractiveIndustries Shategy
Conference, "Mine Reclamationin the West,"
sponsored by the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural ResourcesDepartment and
New Mexico Tech flohn Hawley, Abe Gundiler, George Austin, Lynn Brandvold, Don
Wohlberg, and Chuck Chapin); New Mexico
Geographic Information Council flohn Hewley, Dave Love, and Neil Whitehead, III); first
annual New Mexico Safety and Health Conference hosted by New Mexico State Mine Inspector and NMBMMR (Geolge Austin and
Chuck Chapin); Westem StatesSeismicPolicy
Council (Dave Love and Bill Hanebelg); New
Mexico HazardousWasteManagementSociety
(fohn Hawley); National Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Program Local Officials Outreach
Campaign (Dave Love); Water Quality Control
Commission (Lynn Brandvold); Los Alamos
Geological Society'sEarth TreasuresShow (Marc
Wilson); New Mexico ArchaeologicalCouncil
Workshop on Chronomehic Dating (Dave [nve,
invited talk "Soils and geomorphic dating");
Dionex I. C. seminar (Lynn Brandvold); New
Mexico Association of Conservation Districts
(Dave Love, talk on geologic hazards); Soil
Conservation ServiceSoil Survey workshop on
landform concepts and terminology (fohn
Hawley); U.S. Bureau of land Management
Cave/Karst Thsk Force (Dave Love,and fohn
Hawley); SEPM pre-conference field trip,
"Coastal depositional systemsin Louisianaand
Texas" (Orin Anderson); New Mexico Mining
Association Board of Directors (Frank Kot'
tlowski); El Paso section AIME (Virginia
Mclemore); New Mexico Mine Safety Advisory Board (Chuck Chepin); Southwest New
Mexico Council of Govemment meeting on Resource C'eographicInformation Systems(cltuck
Chapin and BilI Hanebelg); Rocky Mountain
Gas Atlas coordination meeting (tames Rob'
erteon and Neal Whitehead, III); Cenhal New
Mexico section of Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (Chuck Chapin, invited
talk, "Origin and evolution of the southem
Rocky Mountains"); Paragon Ranch Resource
Task Force (Don Wolberg); UTEP AIMHSMB
SEG student chapter (Virginia Mclemore,
"C,eology and mineralization in the SteepleRock
district, Grant County, New Mexico"); UNM
Geology Department colloquium (Bill Haneberg, "Deformation of surficial deposits and
the origin of earth fissures in the American
Southwest"); New Mexico TechAAPG student
'ldell sitting Rocky
chapter (Neil Whitdread, III,
'80s and practical
Mountain wildcats in the
'90s").
suggestions for well sitters in the
At the 12th New Mexico Mineral Sy Posium, Marc Wilson chaired the sessions(assisted by Steve Bringe) and gave a talk on New
Mexico pseudomorphs; Bob Eveleth was mineral auctioneer; fudy Vaiza (assistedby Lois
Gollmer, TheresaLopez, and Thuy-Han Shannon) handled registration and arrangements;
Carol Hiellming compiled the abstracts volume; Nonra Meeks and David Coss were responsible for publication sales.
Artides by BiIl Hanebery; ]ohn Hawley, Dave
Love, and Marchdl Reiter are referenced in
SeroicelNants,Other Publicatiozs. Frank Kottlowski and Gretchen Hoffman contributed a
chapter to Coalfelds of Natt Mexico, USGS Bulletin 1972.
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