New Mexico Geological Society
Fall Field Conference Guidebook - 20
The Border Region

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Diego A. Cordoba, Sherman A. Wengerd and John Shomaker, eds., 1969, 228 pages.

On behalf of the Executive Committee and members of the New Mexico Geological Society, Inc., I welcome you to our Twentieth Annual Field Conference. The society is indeed honored and fortunate to be able to sponsor this tour in our neighboring State of Chihuahua. The first day road log is from Ciudad Juarez to Nuevo Casas Grandes, via Sierra de Juarez, Sierra Boca Grande, Ascencion, and Janos. Much of this trip is across the broad bolson plains of northwestern Chihuahua where we will learn about the geologic histories of these basins and their potentially important water supplies. The traverse is punctuated by a stop at the southern end of the Juarez Mountains to visit some Lower Cretaceous reefs and at the pass of Sierra Boca Grande where Permian rocks are exposed. The second day road log is from Nuevo Casas Grandes to Chihuahua, via Paquime, San Buenaventura, Mina la Mojina, and Sueco Junction. Geologic highlights include an extensive and variable sequence of volcanic rocks exposed in roadcuts in Sierra de las Tunas. At the Sierra de la Mojina stop we will see a spectacular section of Lower Cretaceous carbonates, an operating manganese mill, and an abandoned silver mine. The third day road log is from Chihuahua to Ciudad Juarez, via Encinillas Basin, Sueco Junction, Villa Ahumada and Sierra del Presidio. Highlighs include "arm waving" at Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments in the Sierra de la Alcaparra, the anticlinal Sierra de Samalayuca with its core of metamorphosed sediments, and highly fossiliferous Lower Cretaceous reef limestones at the north end of Sierra del Presidio.

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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 (865 KB PDF)

Roadlogs: (each includes listed mini-papers)

First day road log from Ciudad Juarez to Nuevo Casas Grandes, via Sierra de Juarez, Sierra Boca Grande, Ascension, and Janos
— Diego A. Cordoba, Sherman A. Wengerd, and John W. Shomaker, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.1
Second day road log from Nuevo Casas Grandes to Chihuahua, via Paquime, San Buenaventura, Mina La Mojina, and Sueco Junction
— Diego A. Cordoba, Sherman A. Wengerd, and John W. Shomaker, pp. 17-28. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.17
Third day road log from Chihuahua to Ciudad Juarez, via Encinillas Basin, Sueco Junction, Villa Ahumada and Sierra del Presidio
— Diego A. Cordoba, Sherman A. Wengerd, and John W. Shomaker, pp. 29-39. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.29

Papers:

Microfacies of Pennsylvanian and Wolfcampian strata in southwestern U.S.A. and Chihuahua, Mexico (3.95 MB PDF)
— James L. Wilson, A. Madrid-Solis, and R. Malpica-Cruz, pp. 80-90. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.80
Pluvial Lake Palomas, northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico (2.26 MB PDF)
— Reeves, Corwin C., Jr., pp. 143-154. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.143
Key oil tests and stratigraphic sections in southwest New Mexico (1.11 MB PDF)
— Frank E. Kottlowski, Roy W. Foster, and S. A. Wengerd, pp. 186-196. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.186
The manganese metallogenic province in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico (739 KB PDF)
— Carlos Garcia-Gutierrez and Luis Garcia-Gutierrez, pp. 205-206. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20.205

Recommended Guidebook Citation:

  1. Cordoba, D. A.; Wengerd, S. A.; Shomaker, J. W.; [eds.], 1969, The Border Region, Chihuahua and the United States, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 20th Annual Field Conference, 228 pp. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-20