Rio Grande Rift: Northern New Mexico

Description

Editors: Baldridge, W. Scott; Dickerson, Patricia Wood; Riecker, Robert E.; and Zidek, Jiri

Publisher: New Mexico Geological Society

Pub Date: 1984

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  A few small spots on rear cover.  Very light edge and corner wear.   Appears unused.

Notes: Papers of the New Mexico Geological Society Thirty-Fifth Annual Field Conference.   Arguably the most well-known geological feature in New Mexico (White Sands? the Sandia Mountains?  El Malpais?  Valles Caldera?  Capulin Volcano?  Shiprock?), the entire rift extends from Leadville, Colorado to Presidio, Texas, a distance of more than a thousand kilometers.  This volume focuses on the northern portion of the rift in New Mexico, most well-known outside of Taos.  Includes three day road logs, papers on tectonics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, volcanic geology, economic geology, hydrology, archaeology and history.  Includes papers by three New Mexico archaeologists–Stewart Peckham, Al Schroeder, and Linda Cordell.  VERY  TECHNICAL.