New Mexico Geological Society
Fall Field Conference Guidebook – 61
Geology of the Four Corners Country
James E. Fassett, Kate E. Zeigler, and Virgil Lueth, [editors], 2010, 246 pages.
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
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Table of Contents:
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)
Download (2.78 MB PDF)
Roadlogs: (each includes listed mini-papers)
Jurassic rocks of the Four Corners region - First day road log
— Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 1-34. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.1
— Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 1-34. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.1
Mini-papers:
Brushy Basin Member - Lake T'oo'dichi'
— Christine E. Turner, pp. 23-24.
— Christine E. Turner, pp. 23-24.
Morrison fluvial stratigraphy
— Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 25.
— Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 25.
Junction Creek - Salt Wash intertonguing
— Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 25-26.
— Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 25-26.
Battle Rock Charter School - Salt Wash onlaps Junction Creek
— Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 26-27.
— Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 26-27.
Recapture Member, Aneth area
— Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 28-29.
— Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson, pp. 28-29.
Recapture Creek: Bluff - Recapture intertonguing
— Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 29-30.
— Fred Peterson and Christine E. Turner, pp. 29-30.
Bluff Gravel Pit and the J-5 unconformity
— Fred Peterson, pp. 30-31.
— Fred Peterson, pp. 30-31.
Montezuma Creek: Brushy Basin Member and Lake T'oo'dichi'
— Christine E. Turner, pp. 31-32.
— Christine E. Turner, pp. 31-32.
The Middle Jurassic J-2 unconformity
— R. B. O'Sullivan, pp. 32-33.
— R. B. O'Sullivan, pp. 32-33.
Manhunt case closed
— Hal Mansfield, pp. 33-34.
— Hal Mansfield, pp. 33-34.
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. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.35
— James E. Fassett, Mary L. Gillam, David Gonzalez, and Kimberlee Miskell-Gerhardt, pp. 35-53. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.35
Mini-papers:
The Pictured Cliffs at Waterflow, New Mexico
— Lorna Gail LaDage, pp. 49-53.
— Lorna Gail LaDage, pp. 49-53.
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. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.55
— James E. Fassett, pp. 55-68. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.55
Mini-papers:
The San Juan River dinosaur -bone site
— James E. Fassett, pp. 62-65.
— James E. Fassett, pp. 62-65.
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.
— Virginia T. McLemore and William L. Chenoweth, pp. 65-68.
Papers:
Correlation of the upper part of the Middle Jurassic San Rafael Group in northeast Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southeast Utah (4.53 MB PDF)
— Robert B. O'Sullivan, pp. 91-100. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.91 [ABSTRACT]
— Robert B. O'Sullivan, pp. 91-100. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.91 [ABSTRACT]
The lower and upper contacts of the Upper Jurassic Bluff Sandstone Member of the Morrison Formation in southeastern Utah (2.99 MB PDF)
— Robert B. O'Sullivan, pp. 101-105. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.101 [ABSTRACT]
— Robert B. O'Sullivan, pp. 101-105. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.101 [ABSTRACT]
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 (4.61 MB PDF)
— Donald E. Owen, Charles F. Head, and Nicolas R. Brandes, pp. 107-112. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.107 [ABSTRACT]
— Donald E. Owen, Charles F. Head, and Nicolas R. Brandes, pp. 107-112. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.107 [ABSTRACT]
Stratigraphic nomenclature of rock strata adjacent to the Cretaceous-Tertiary interface in the San Juan Basin (4.42 MB PDF)
— James E. Fassett, pp. 113-124. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.113 [ABSTRACT]
— James E. Fassett, pp. 113-124. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.113 [ABSTRACT]
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 (2.88 MB PDF)
— William R. Dickinson, Steven M. Cather, and George E. Gehrels, pp. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.125 [ABSTRACT]
— William R. Dickinson, Steven M. Cather, and George E. Gehrels, pp. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.125 [ABSTRACT]
Implications of U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Mesozoic strata of the Four Corners region for provenance relations in space and time (5.13 MB PDF)
— William R. Dickinson and George E. Gehrels, pp. 135-146. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.135 [ABSTRACT]
— William R. Dickinson and George E. Gehrels, pp. 135-146. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.135 [ABSTRACT]
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 (3.23 MB PDF)
— James E. Fassett, Matthew T. Heizler, and William C. McIntosh, pp. 147-156. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.147 [ABSTRACT]
— James E. Fassett, Matthew T. Heizler, and William C. McIntosh, pp. 147-156. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.147 [ABSTRACT]
The engimatic Late Cretaceous mcDermott Formation (2.15 MB PDF)
— David A. Gonzales, pp. 157-162. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.157 [ABSTRACT]
— David A. Gonzales, pp. 157-162. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.157 [ABSTRACT]
New insight into the timing and history of diatreme-dike complexes of the northeastern Navajo volcanic fiedl, southwestern Colorado (3.43 MB PDF)
— D. A. Gonzales, B. E. Turner, R. T. Burgess, C. C. Holnback, and M. R. Critchley, pp. 163-172. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.163 [ABSTRACT]
— D. A. Gonzales, B. E. Turner, R. T. Burgess, C. C. Holnback, and M. R. Critchley, pp. 163-172. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.163 [ABSTRACT]
Coal mining in the western San Juan Basin, San Juan County, New Mexico (3.50 MB PDF)
— John M. Mercier, pp. 173-180. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.173 [ABSTRACT]
— John M. Mercier, pp. 173-180. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.173 [ABSTRACT]
Oil and gas resources of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado (5.61 MB PDF)
— James E. Fassett, pp. 181-196. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.181 [ABSTRACT]
— James E. Fassett, pp. 181-196. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.181 [ABSTRACT]
Distribution, origin, and mineral resource potential of Late Cretaceous heavy mineral, beach-placer sandstone deposits (3.13 MB PDF)
— Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 197-212. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.197 [ABSTRACT]
— Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 197-212. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.197 [ABSTRACT]
Uranium in the Sanostee district, San Juan County, New Mexico (1.36 MB PDF)
— William L. Chenoweth and Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 213-220. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.213 [ABSTRACT]
— William L. Chenoweth and Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 213-220. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.213 [ABSTRACT]
Gemstone deposits of the Four Corners region, USA (3.53 MB PDF)
— Robert W. Eveleth and Virgil W. Lueth, pp. 221-229. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.221 [ABSTRACT]
— Robert W. Eveleth and Virgil W. Lueth, pp. 221-229. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.221 [ABSTRACT]
New interpretations of alluvial and paleo-vegetation records from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (5.62 MB PDF)
— Stephen A. Hall, pp. 231-245. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.231 [ABSTRACT]
— Stephen A. Hall, pp. 231-245. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-61.231 [ABSTRACT]
Recommended Guidebook Citation:
- 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