New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting
April 21, 2023

Program and Abstracts

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

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Friday, April 21, 2023

Check-in and Packet Pick-up

Lower Lobby: 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM

NMGS Annual Business Meeting and Presentation of Student Awards

Auditorium: 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

NMBGMR Presentation of Earth Science Achievement Award to Kent Condie

Auditorium: 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Keynote Address:

Main auditorium: 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM

Chair: Johanna Blake

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

— Sheila F. Murphy

8:45 AM - 9:45 AM

Paleontology in New Mexico:

Galena Room (upper level): 9:45 AM - 10:40 AM

Chair: Spencer Lucas

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

— David M. Rachal and Jim Mead

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

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

— Patrick James Carey and Deborah Petrak Green

10:10 AM - 10:25 AM

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

— James E. Fassett

10:25 AM - 10:40 AM

Water and Wildfires I:

Auditorium: 9:45 AM - 10:35 AM

Chair: Johanna Blake

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

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

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

10:20 AM - 10:35 AM

Morning Break

Upper Lobby: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy:

Galena Room (upper level): 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Chair: Dan Koning

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

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Stratigraphy of the early Permian DeChelly erg in New Mexico

— Spencer G. Lucas and Karl Krainer

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

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

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Water and Wildfires II:

Auditorium: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Chair: Laila Sturgis

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

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

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

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

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

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

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

— Astrid Y. Lozano Acosta

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

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

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Student/Professional Mixer Luncheon (ticket required)

Copper Room (lower level): 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch Break

On your own: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Economic Geology and Geologic Resources:

Galena Room (upper level): 1:30 PM - 3:35 PM

Chair: Virginia McLemore and Evan Owen

Critical Minerals in New Mexico

— Virginia T. McLemore

1:35 PM - 1:50 PM

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

— Ronald F. Broadhead

1:50 PM - 2:05 PM

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

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

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

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

— Mark R. Leo-Russell and Virginia T. McLemore

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

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

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

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

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

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

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

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

3:20 PM - 3:35 PM

Water and Wildfires III:

Auditorium: 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Chair: Rachel Hobbs

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

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

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

NM Water data initiative project: Groundwater level monitoring network planning

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

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

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

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Geomorphology:

Auditorium: 2:15 PM - 3:05 PM

Chair: Dan Cadol

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

— Dan Mason and Lou Scuderi

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

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

— Bruce Harrison

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

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

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Structural Geology and Volcanology:

Auditorium: 3:05 PM - 3:55 PM

Chair: Snir Attia

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

— Shari Kelley

3:10 PM - 3:25 PM

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

— John M. Bailey

3:25 PM - 3:40 PM

The Calm Before the Volcanic Storm

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

3:40 PM - 3:55 PM

Posters, afternoon snacks, and cash bar:

Upper Lobby: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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

— Abena Serwah Acheampong-Mensah and Virginia T. McLemore

Booth: 1

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

— Raven Longwolf Alcott and Peter Fawcett

Booth: 2

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

Booth: 3

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

— Snir Attia and Julia Ricci

Booth: 4

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

Booth: 5

Western Alpine High Potential, West Flank Delaware Basin, Texas

— Anthony Benson and Edward Benson

Booth: 6

Taos Valley Groundwater Structure

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

Booth: 7

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

— Mary Frances Bibb and Jennifer Lindline

Booth: 8

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

— Ernest Brakohiapa

Booth: 9

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

Booth: 10

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

Booth: 11

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

Booth: 12

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

— Teresa Dominguez and Jennifer Thines

Booth: 13

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

— Mikayla Earnest and Jennifer Thines

Booth: 14

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

— Michael P. Foley and Spencer G. Lucas

Booth: 15

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

Booth: 16

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

Booth: 17

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

Booth: 18

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

Booth: 19

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

— Eric D. Koenig and Michael L. Rucker

Booth: 20

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

Booth: 21

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

— Joseph Kuljis

Booth: 22

Rare Earth Elements in Humates Mined in the San Juan Basin

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

Booth: 23

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

Booth: 24

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

— Spencer G. Lucas and Karl Krainer

Booth: 25

Quantifying bedload transport in ephemeral channels using seismic methods

— Loc Luong and Daniel Cadol

Booth: 26

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

Booth: 27

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

— Rebecca Moskal and Daniel Cadol

Booth: 28

The Mineralogy of the Black Hawk Arsenide 5-Element Deposit

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

Booth: 29

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

Booth: 30

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

— George Pharris, Veronica Prush, and John Naliboff

Booth: 31

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

Booth: 32

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

— Kenyan Pius Phlieger, Katelyn Green, and Daniel Jones

Booth: 33

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

Booth: 34

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

Booth: 35

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