Geology Field Trip to New Mexico

Cin-Ty Lee and Rajdeep Dasgupta

READINGS

Geologic Map of New Mexico

Legend

General Geology

Proterozoic geology

Karlstrom – Proterozoic geologic history

DePaolo, 1981 – Crust formation ages, Colorado Front Range, 1.4 Gy granites

Marshak – midcontinent rifting

Paleozoic geology

Marshak – Ancestral Rockies

Cretaceous geology

Arthur –Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events

Cross and Pilger – Cretaceous Interior Seaway

Dickinson and Snyder – General Cordilleran geology

Cenozoic geology

Atwater 1970 – classic tectonics paper

Dickinson – Laramide Depocenters

DePaolo, Perry, Baldridge – Rio Grande rift, lithospheric thinning

Wilson – Rio Grande Rift, seismic constraints on lithospheric thinning

Proterozoic metamorphic basement

Holdaway – Picuris range - petrology

Grambling – Picuris range aluminosilicate petrology/mineralogy

Schreyer – Petaca schists

Harding pegmatite

Chakoumakos – P-T, fluid inclusions and mineralogy

Jahns and Burnham – pegmatite formation

London – some words on pegmatites in general

Late Cenozoic volcanics

Bandelier and Valles Caldera

Heiken – Valles Caldera review

Hulen and Nielson, 1991 – evolution of Valles Caldera

Self 1986 – Jemez Caldera development

Warshaw and Smith 1988 – Bandelier rhyolite temperatures

Wolff 1999 – Strontium isotopes Bandelier

Wolff 2005 – Mafic magmas Jemez (pre-caldera)

Smith and Bailey 1965 – Bandlier Tuff stratigraphy, zoned magma chamber

Bailey and Smith – classic USGS paper on stratigraphy and nomenclature

Dunbar and Hervig – volatiles in lower bandelier

Hulen and Nielson 1988 – Valles Caldera hydrothermalism

Rio Puerco volcanics

Porreca and Selverstone – Mantle and lower crustal xenoliths in Rio Puerco volcanic field

Hallet – ages of Rio Puerco necks

Other maps/guides

Picuris, Taos county bulletin