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Map of Mesozoic exposures in New Mexico, USA. The Mesozoic began with the Permian-Triassic extinction event. [31] The Sevier and Nevadan orogenies pushed up mountains to the west of New Mexico that produced a rain shadow, giving New Mexico an exquisitely hot and dry climate through much of the early Mesozoic. [32] [33]
The geology of New Mexico. A geologic history: New Mexico Geological Society Special Volume 11. pp. 95–136. ISBN 9781585460106. Lawton, T.F.; Olmstead, G.A. (1995). "Stratigraphy and structure of the lower part of the Bisbee Group, northeastern Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona". Geological Society of America Special Papers. 301: 21–39.
From the White Place, painting by Georgia O'Keefe depicting the Abiquiu Formation. The Abiquiu Formation is a geologic formation found in northern New Mexico. Radiometric dating constrains its age to between 18 million and 27 million years, corresponding to the late Oligocene to Miocene epochs.
United States Geologic Survey of New Mexico and Colorado. ISBN 9780813724942; Kirk, Bryan (1938). "Geology and ground-water conditions of the Rio Grande depression in Colorado and New Mexico". The Rio Grande Joint Investigation in the upper Rio Grande basin in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. U.S. National Resources Committee. pp. 197–225 ...
The Hall Lake Formation, formerly called the Hall Lake Member, is a geological formation in Sierra County, New Mexico preserving Lancian fauna, most notably dinosaurs. It is regarded as a member of the McRae Group, including the Elephant Butte and Staton-LaPoint locales. [2]
The formation is exposed along a belt 1 mile (1.6 km) and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long in Tijeras Canyon east of Albuquerque, New Mexico.It is a sequence of metavolcanic and metasedimentary beds, typically dark green in color, with its texture varying from unfoliated to strongly schistose. [1]
Precambrian geology of New Mexico (1 C, 4 P) R. Rock formations of New Mexico (1 C, 15 P) S. Stratigraphy of New Mexico (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Geology of New ...
The formation was first named as the Graphic-Kelly Formation by C.L. Herrick in 1904 for exposures near the mining town of Kelly, New Mexico. [5] The hyphenated name was found objectionable, and the formation was renamed as the Kelly Limestone by C.H. Gordon in 1907. [ 6 ]