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New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting
April 21, 2023, Macey Center, Socorro, NM

2023 Proceedings Volume
Online ISSN: 2834-5800
https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023

Geochemistry of critical minerals in mine wastes at Hillsboro and Steeple Rock districts, New Mexico.

Abena Serwah Acheampong-Mensah and Virginia T. McLemore

p. 15. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2930

The solubility of tellurium dioxide in water vapor at 250°C

Jonathan Reed Adams, Nicole C. Hurtig, Alexander P. Gysi, and Artaches Migdissov

p. 16. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2916

Millennial-Scale Climate Change in the Valles Caldera Sediment Core During Glacial Period MIS 12

Raven Longwolf Alcott and Peter Fawcett

p. 17. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2953

Bedrock and Neotectonic Characterization of an Unnamed Range-Bounding Rio Grande Rift Fault South of Socorro, New Mexico

Jonathan Anaya, Kyle Gallant, Daniel Runyan, Antonio Chavez, Riley Heath, and Veronica B. Prush

p. 18. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2941

Unearthing the mid-Cenozoic Cordilleran magmatic periphery of eastern New Mexico

Snir Attia and Julia Ricci

p. 19. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2900

Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals in Coal and Related Strata in the San Juan Basin in Northern New Mexico

Megan N. Badonie and Virginia T. McLemore

p. 20. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2939

Geometry, kinematics, and timing of Proterozoic shear zones in New Mexico and northwestern Arizona: a record of multiple orogenic pulses?

John M. Bailey

p. 21. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2945

Timing and Origin of Hree-Enriched Fluorite Mineralization in West Texas and Southern New Mexico, Including Sierra Blanca and the Franklin Mountains

James Barker, Muriel Sandoval, Ali Mahar, Jay Chapman, Phillip Goodell, and Antonio Arribas

p. 22. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2905

Western Alpine High Potential, West Flank Delaware Basin, Texas

Anthony Benson and Edward Benson

p. 23. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2897

Taos Valley Groundwater Structure

Tony Benson, Shannon Williams, Sam Fire, and Grace Powell

pp. 24-25. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2911

Hydrologic Response of the Gallinas River to 2023 Spring Snowmelt Post-2022 Hermits Peak/calf Canyon Fire

Mary Frances Bibb and Jennifer Lindline

p. 26. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2925

Potential post-wildfire water quality effects in uranium-rich regions

Johanna M. Blake, Sheila Murphy, Elizabeth Tomaszewski, and Michelle Hornberger

p. 27. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2915

Petrography and Economical Potential of Banded Iron Formation of the Neoproterozoic-Age Buem Formation, Ghana

Ernest Brakohiapa

p. 28. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2908

Helium – Relationships to other reservoir gases and implications for exploration: the New Mexico example

Ronald F. Broadhead

p. 29. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2878

Magdalena Science Café Water Resources Science Project

Kassidy Brunson, Jeremiah Alvarez, Zeb Apachito, Cade Brunson, Tristin Alvarez, Jim Sauer, Bonnie Frey, Nicole Hurtig, and Laila Sturgis

p. 30. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2955

Factors Affecting the Runoff Response of an Ephemeral Watershed to High-Intensity Rain: Arroyo De Los Pinos, NM

Daniel Cadol, Loc Luong, Sandra Glasgo, and Madeline Richards

p. 31. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2893

Pennsylvanian Silicification of Shallow Marine Fossils in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Patrick James Carey and Deborah Petrak Green

p. 32. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2906

Geometry of Major Normal Faults in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Rio Grande Rift, Constrained By Total Bouguer Gravity Anomaly Data

Antonio Chavez, Richard Chamberlin, and Alex Rinehart

p. 33. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2948

Characterization and Origin of the REE-bearing Magmatic-Hydrothermal Breccia Pipes in the Gallinas Mountains, Lincoln County,New Mexico

Stellah Cherotich and Virginia T. McLemore

pp. 34-35. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2918

Metagenome-assembled Genomes from Extremophilic Microbial Communities In and Around Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico

Angeline Noelle I. Diongson, Abigail Brown, Mackenzie B. Best, Raymond R. Castillo, Evita A. Chee, Katelyn Green, Elaena L. Hann, Zoë E. Havlena, Willie A. Hughes, Nathaniel E. Jobe, Damilola M. Odumade, Andre J. Ortiz, Lama Ramadan, Cassandra H. Skaar, and Daniel S. Jones

p. 36. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2934

Plagioclase Mineral Chemistry of Basalt Rocks from the Black Mountain-Santo Thomas Chain in the Potrillo Volcanic Field

Teresa Dominguez and Jennifer Thines

p. 37. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2929

Olivine Mineral Chemistry of Volcanic Flows in the Northeastern Potrillo Volcanic Field

Mikayla Earnest and Jennifer Thines

p. 38. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2952

A Dinosaur Regurgitite From the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

James E. Fassett

p. 39. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2922

The First Record of the Echinoid Genus Mecaster From the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of New Mexico

Michael P. Foley and Spencer G. Lucas

p. 40. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2884

From the Laramide to Now: Mapping the Tectonic Evolution of Central New Mexico in the Northern Fra Cristobal Range

Kyle K. Gallant and Veronica B. Prush

p. 41. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2949

Applying ⁴⁰ar/³⁹ar Detrital Sanidine Geochronology to Constrain Stratigraphic Ages From proboscidean-Bearing Strata of the Plio-Pleistocene Camp Rice Formation, Southern New Mexico

Brian A. Hampton, Peter Houde, Matthew T. Heizler, and Julia Ricci

pp. 42-43. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2947

Exceptional Trace Fossils and Fossil Plants From a New Locality in the upper part of the Abo Formation (lower Permian), Socorro County, New Mexico

Susan K. Harris, Spencer G. Lucas, William A. DiMichele, and Paul T. May

p. 44. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2882

Improving soil maps of rangelands through identification of patterns in soil variability imposed by geomorphic processes

Bruce Harrison

p. 45. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2958

The New Mexico Water Data Initiative: Building Collaborative Data Sharing for Water Management Along the Pecos River, New Mexico

Rachel Hobbs, Christopher Cox, Jake Ross, and Stacy Timmons

p. 46. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2903

Bed Sediment Metal Concentrations as Indicators of Ecosystem Recovery in the Gallinas Creek Watershed

Michelle Hornberger, Sheila Murphy, Elizabeth Tomaszewski, and Johanna Blake

p. 47. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2896

The Uvas Basaltic Andesite: a Large-Volume Volcanic Field Erupted During the Initiation of the Southern Rio Grande Rift

Lee H. Hughes and Jeffery M. Amato

pp. 48-49. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2946

Permian tetrapod fossils reworked into the Eocene Baca Formation northeast of Socorro, New Mexico: resolving a forgotten discrepancy in the work of N. H. Darton

Adrian P. Hunt, Susan K. Harris, Paul T. May, and Spencer G. Lucas

p. 50. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2881

Linking Genomes and Geochemistry in Extreme Environments Across the Greater Valles Caldera Ecosystem, New Mexico

Daniel S. Jones, Abigail Brown, Mackenzie B. Best, Raymond R. Castillo, Evita A. Chee, Angeline Noelle I. Diongson, Katelyn Green, Elaena L. Hann, Zoë E. Havlena, Willie A. Hughes, Nathaniel E. Jobe, Damilola M. Odumade, Andre J. Ortiz, Lama Ramadan, and Cassandra H. Skaar

p. 51. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2936

Microtextural relationships of Arsenide Five-Element Veins in the Black Hawk District, Grant County, New Mexico

Zohreh Kazemi Motlagh, William X. Chávez, Virginia T. McLemore, Evan J. Owen, and Jakob Newcomer

p. 52. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2943

Documenting Fracture Networks in Proterozoic Granite, Arroyo Del Tajo, New Mexico

Shari Kelley

p. 53. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2898

Observations on Subsurface Stratigraphy at the I&W Brine Site in Carlsbad, New Mexico

Eric D. Koenig and Michael L. Rucker

pp. 54-55. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2928

Hydrostratigraphic framework and assessments of permeability and TDS for the Santa Fe Group aquifer in the northwestern Albuquerque basin, Rio Grande rift, NM

Daniel J. Koning, Luke Martin, Matthew Zimmerer, Ethan Mamer, Amanda Doherty, and Laila Sturgis

pp. 56-57. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2879

A Cryptic Miocene Occurrence of an Ultramafic Dike in the Interior of the San Juan Basin: Composition, Age, and Tectonic Interpretations

Jon M. Krupnick, Kevin M. Hobbs, and Luke Martin

p. 58. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2912

Surface Water and Snowpack Modeling With Emphasis on Post-Wildfire Hydrologic Impacts in the Santa Fe Watershed, NM

Joseph Kuljis

p. 59. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2913

Environmental Fate of Sulfur in Sulphur Creek, Valles Caldera, Nm: Implications for Water Quality and Metal Transport

Daniel Lavery, Laura J. Crossey, and Abdulmehdi Ali

pp. 60-61. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2899

Rare Earth Elements in Humates Mined in the San Juan Basin

John Lempke, Bonnie Frey, Brent Goehring, and Virginia McLemore

p. 62. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2954

A Review of Lithium as a Critical Industrial Material and Engagement Prospects in New Mexico.

Mark R. Leo-Russell and Virginia T. McLemore

pp. 63-64. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2926

Monitoring the Impacts of the 2022 Hermits Peak/calf Canyon Fire on the Upper Pecos River Water Quality

Jennifer Lindline, Megan Begay, and Letisha Mailboy

p. 65. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2921

Groundwater signatures and mixing patterns around El Paso del Norte area of the Rio Grande aquifer system using environmental tracers

Astrid Y. Lozano Acosta

p. 66. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2874

Revisions to the Pensylvanian-Permian Lithostratigraphic Nomenclature in the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

Spencer G. Lucas and Karl Krainer

p. 67. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2880

Stratigraphy of the early Permian DeChelly erg in New Mexico

Spencer G. Lucas and Karl Krainer

p. 68. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2891

Quantifying bedload transport in ephemeral channels using seismic methods

Loc Luong and Daniel Cadol

p. 69. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2902

Interweaving Recurring Slope Lineae in Raga Crater, Mars and Their Applicability to Hillslope Monitoring Throughout New Mexico

Dan Mason and Lou Scuderi

pp. 70-71. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2901

Ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous Twowells Member of the Dakota Sandstone, Ojito Wilderness Area, Sandoval County, New Mexico

Paul T. May and Spencer G. Lucas

pp. 72-73. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2883

Critical Minerals in New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore

pp. 74-75. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2892

Comparison of Measured Bedload with Predictions from Transport Equations in an Unarmored Ephemeral Channel

Rebecca Moskal and Daniel Cadol

p. 76. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2942

The role of geology and legacy mines in post-wildfire water quality

Sheila F. Murphy

p. 77. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2914

The Mineralogy of the Black Hawk Arsenide 5-Element Deposit

Jakob Newcomer, Virginia McLemore, Zohreh Kazemi Motlagh, Evan Owen, and Nicole Hurtig

p. 78. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2923

Fluvial Propagation of Wildfire Disturbances From the Largest Wildfire Recorded in New Mexico

Justin Rae Nichols, Asmita Kaphle, Paige Tunby, Dave Van Horne, and Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon

p. 79. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2877

Lithogeochemical Vectors and Mineral Paragenesis of Hydrothermal REE-F-Bearing Veins and Breccias in the Gallinas Mountains, New Mexico

Evan J. Owen, Alexander Gysi, Virginia McLemore, Nicole Hurtig, and Katharina Pfaff

pp. 80-81. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2960

Complete Fish Fossil From the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale near Tierra Amarilla, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Randy Pence, Paul T. May, Paul L. Sealey, Joe D. Stewart, and Spencer G. Lucas

p. 82. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2894

Evaluating Segmentation Behavior Along the Alamogordo Fault Using Remote Sensing and Field-based Datasets

George Pharris, Veronica Prush, and John Naliboff

p. 83. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2927

Investigating the Geometry of an Unnamed Fault System South of Socorro, New Mexico, Using an Integrated Geophysical and Remote Sensing Approach

George Pharris, Riley Heath, Victoria Jones, Veronica Prush, Isabel Morris, Lindsay Worthington, Collin Brandl, Sarah Rysanek, Jillian Podmore, and Jonathan Anaya

p. 84. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2935

Phylogenetic Analysis of Ammonia Monooxygenase (amoa) Genes From Desert Caves

Kenyan Pius Phlieger, Katelyn Green, and Daniel Jones

p. 85. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2931

From Old Poop to the Real Scoop: The Truth About Lake Balls

David M. Rachal and Jim Mead

p. 86. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2888

Tectonic Geomorphology of the Jemez System: Resolving Quaternary River Response to Dynamic Landscapes Using ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology

Cameron Reed, Karl Karlstrom, Matthew Heizler, Benjamin Rodriguez, Julia Ricci, and Laura Crossey

p. 87. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2904

Utilizing Benthic Macroinvertebrates to Assess the Impacts of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire on Water Quality in Regional Watersheds

Kennis Romero, Mary Frances Bibb, Daryl Williams, Jennifer Lindline, and Sebastian Medina

p. 88. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2920

Determining surface water and groundwater returns from Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge to the Rio Grande

Stephanie Roussel, Zachary Shephard, Fletcher Brinkerhoff, and Rebecca Travis

p. 89. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2917

Mineral Paragenesis and Fluid Evolution at the Magmatic-Hydrothermal Transition of the Lemitar Carbonatite, NM

Eric L. Ruggles, Nicole Hurtig, Alexander Gysi, and Virginia McLemore

pp. 90-91. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2919

High-Magnesium Dolomites in South-Central New Mexico

Daniel M. Runyan, Virginia T. McLemore, Evan J. Owen, and Ethan B. Haft

p. 92. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2924

New U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology From the Eocene San Jose Formation, Eastern San Juan Basin, Northwestern New Mexico

Nicole Joy Salladin, Thomas A. Valenzuela, Brian A. Hampton, and Kevin M. Hobbs

p. 93. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2951

Applying U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Constrain Oligocene-Miocene closed-basin Rio Grande Rift sedimentation in the Palomas and Jornada del Muerto Basins, Southern New Mexico

Ethan J. Schneider and Brian A. Hampton

p. 94. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2950

A Summary of Late Cretaceous Ammonites and Molluscan Zones, Eastern San Juan Basin, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Paul L. Sealey and Spencer G. Lucas

p. 95. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2886

The Nautiloid eutrephoceras Sp. From the Cretaceous of New Mexico Likely Represents Multiple Species

Paul L. Sealey and Spencer G. Lucas

pp. 96-97. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2889

Alteration and geochemistry of Clinkers in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Devlon R. Shaver, Virginia T. McLemore, and Evan Owen

p. 98. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2933

Tracking REE formation with fluid inclusions from the Gallinas Mountains, NM

Teagan Skinner, Nicole C. Hurtig, Alexander P. Gysi, and Virginia McLemore

p. 100. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2940

The Hydroclimate and Environmental Response to Warming in the Southwestern US: A Study Across the Mid-Miocene Climate Optimum

Sianin Spaur, Jeremy Caves Rugenstein, Daniel J. Koning, and Scott Aby

p. 101. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2909

Laramide Porphyry Systems of New Mexico: Geochronology and Critical Mineral Potential

Kyle T. Stafford, Virginia T. McLemore, and Nels A. Iverson

p. 102. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2895

NM Water data initiative project: Groundwater level monitoring network planning

Stacy Timmons, Rob Pine, Jake Ross, Geoff Rawling, Rachel Hobbs, and Talon Newton

p. 103. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2907

Hydrochemistry of an Alpine Karst System, Northern New Mexico: Las Huertas

Kambray Townsend, Laura J. Crossey, Karl Karlstrom, Brittany Griego, and Livia Crowley

p. 104. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2944

Droning on at NMSU: Exploring Integration of Geologic and Uas Workflows

Thomas Valenzuela, Nicole Salladin, Alexis Salmeron, Michael Murphy, Joseph Wilcox, and Casey James Duncan

p. 105. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2932

Restore: Addressing decade-long water issues in the Navajo Nation

Darlene Wilson, Abhishek RoyChowdhury, Bonnie Frey, and Jianjia Yu

p. 106. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2956

The Calm Before the Volcanic Storm

Matthew J. Zimmerer, Peter W. Lipman, and Nicholas F. Meszaros

p. 107. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2023.2937

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