New Mexico Geological Society
Special Publication - 5
Cenozoic Volcanism in Southwestern New Mexico
Wolfgang E. Elston and Stuart A. Northrop, eds, 1976, 151 pages.
This volume has been a long time in the making. The call for
papers went out in late 1970 and papers were received in 1971
and 1972. Plans called for publication as University of New
Mexico Publication in Geology No. 8. Tentative approval had
been obtained before the call for papers was issued but by the
time papers had been reviewed and edited, the great financial
crunch of the 1970's had struck in academia. UNM Press has an
established reputation and market in the humanities and social
sciences but was uncertain about the physical sciences. In 1973
the plan for University of New Mexico Publication in Geology
No. 8 had to be abandoned.
Efforts to find an alternative publisher were successful in May
1975, when the Executive Committee of the New Mexico
Geological Society voted to sponsor this volume. Rodney
Rhodes' tragic death had occurred just two months before and it
was decided to dedicate the volume to his memory. The
technicalities of preparing manuscripts for the printer became
less overwhelming when Stuart A. Northrop agreed to accept
coeditorship. To save printing costs, all bibliographies were
combined into one at the end of the volume.
In the meantime, science had not stood still. All authors were
given an opportunity to revise their manuscripts. In general,
papers that describe particular areas had remained up to date.
Papers that interpreted the data required extensive revision.
Specifically, all papers of which I am author or coauthor were
written or completely rewritten during 1975 and early 1976. All
other papers are essentially as they were in 1973. One article that
had been cited in the literature as being "in press" was
withdrawn by the authors: Seager, W. R., and Clemons, R. E.,"Volcanic chronology and structure of the Blue Creek basin
region between Clifton, Arizona and Cliff, New Mexico."
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