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New Mexico Geological Society
Fall Field Conference Guidebook - 27
Vermejo Park,

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Rodney C. Ewing and Barry S. Kues, eds, 1976, 306 pages.

Welcome to the New Mexico Geological Society's twenty-seventh consecutive annual fall field conference. This year we have the unique good fortune of participating in the first geologic field trip to penetrate the mysterious hidden recesses of Vermejo Park. This area, starting out as part of a Spanish Land Grant, has been continuously in private ownership and, as such, has never before been open to the general public. Through the good offices of Chuck Pillmore, Road Log Chairman, and the kind indulgence of Pennzoil Corporation, current owner of the property, and Kaiser Steel Corporation, this trip was made possible. The first day road log is from Las Vegas to Raton via Montezuma, Sapello, La Cueva (and vicinity), Ocate, Wagon Mound and Springer. The second day road log is from Raton to Underwood lakes through the Raton Coal Filed via the York Canyon Mine, Vemejo Park and Gold Creek. This route proceeds on the York Canyon mine road NM-555, from Raton through the Tertiary coal-bearing rocks of the Raton coal field to Vernejo Park, into an overturned section of the Mesozoic, and finally to the Tertiary volcanic rocks of the Underwood volcanic field.The third day road log is from Raton to Adams and Bartlett Lakes, Vermejo Park, New Mexico, through Trinidad Coal Field and Tercio Anticline, Colorado; return via Van Bremmer Canyon and Colfax, New Mexico.

 

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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 (1.70 MB PDF)

Roadlogs: (each includes listed mini-papers)

First day road log from Las Vegas to Raton via Montezuma, Sapello, La Cueva, and vicinity, Ocate, Wagon Mound and Springer, New Mexico
— Robert H. Lessard, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.1
Second day road log from Raton to Underwood Lakes through the Raton coal field via the York Canyon mine, Vermejo Park and Gold Creek
— Charles L. Pillmore, pp. 25-47. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.25
Third day road log from Raton to Adams and Bartlett Lakes, Vermejo Park, New Mexico, through Trinidad coal field and Tercio anticline, Colorado: Return via Van Bremmer Canyon and Colfax, New Mexico
— Charles L. Pillmore, pp. 49-69. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.49

Papers:

Scenes from the past-III (3.71 MB PDF)
— William L. Hiss, pp. 71-76. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.71
The prehistory of northeastern New Mexico (1.54 MB PDF)
— David T. Kirkpatrick, pp. 77-82. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.77
The Folsom site in retrospect (231 KB PDF)
— Linda S. Cordell, pp. 83-86. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.83 [ABSTRACT]
History of Vermejo Park, New Mexico (2.06 MB PDF)
— Karen P. Laurie, pp. 87-92. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.87 [ABSTRACT]
Geology of the Las Vegas area (256 KB PDF)
— Robert H. Lessard and Waldemere Bejnar, pp. 103-108. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.103 [ABSTRACT]
Pediments of the Vermejo Park area, New Mexico (3.17 MB PDF)
— Charles L. Pillmore and Glenn R. Scott, pp. 111-120. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.111 [ABSTRACT]
Structural framework of the southern Raton Basin, New Mexico (340 KB PDF)
— Lee A. Woodward and D. O. Snyder, pp. 125-127. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.125 [ABSTRACT]
Summary of Precambrian geology and geochronology of northeastern New Mexico (696 KB PDF)
— James M. Robertson, J. F. Callender, and D. G. Brookins, pp. 129-135. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.129 [ABSTRACT]
Subsurface Paleozoic stratigraphy of the northeastern New Mexico basin and arch complex (3.60 MB PDF)
— J. Wayland Roberts, J. J. Barnes, and H. J. Wacker, pp. 141-152. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.141 [ABSTRACT]
The York Canyon coal bed (1.34 MB PDF)
— Charles L. Pillmore, pp. 249-251. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.249 [ABSTRACT]
The Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (3.41 MB PDF)
— Richard H. Jahns and R. C. Ewing, pp. 263-276. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.263 [ABSTRACT]
Meteorites of northeastern New Mexico (1.56 MB PDF)
— David E. Lange and Klaus Keil, pp. 293-299. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.293 [ABSTRACT]
Tectonic map of the southern Raton Basin, New Mexico (not yet available)
— Lee A. Woodward and D. O. Snyder, scale 1:250,000. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27.map

Recommended Guidebook Citation:

  1. Ewing, R. C.; Kues, B. S.; [eds.], 1976, Vermejo Park, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 27th Annual Field Conference, 306 pp. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-27