{"title":"First-day road log, trip 1, from Washington Ranch to Dark Canyon, Mosley Canyon, and Queen Highway, through Indian Basin and Rocky Arroyo, to Azotea Mesa and the McKittrick Hill Caves, and return to Washington Ranch by way of Happy Valley","authors":"L. Land, D. Love, V. Polyak","doi":"10.56577/ffc-57.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/ffc-57.1","url":null,"abstract":"Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national standard for geologic guidebooks and are an essential geologic reference for anyone working in or around New Mexico.","PeriodicalId":115438,"journal":{"name":"Caves and karst of southeastern New Mexico","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133744790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Halite depositional cycles in the Upper Permian Salado Formation","authors":"R. Holt, D. W. Powers, T. Lowenstein","doi":"10.56577/ffc-.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/ffc-.78","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115438,"journal":{"name":"Caves and karst of southeastern New Mexico","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114558747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intrastratal karst at the WIPP site, southeastern New Mexico","authors":"C. Hill","doi":"10.56577/ffc-.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/ffc-.233","url":null,"abstract":"— The possibility of intrastratal karst at the WIPP site has been evaluated with respect to karst principles and processes and to dissolution/hydrological studies. While little direct evidence exists for intrastratal karst at the WIPP site, many indirect lines of evidence suggest the possible presence of karst: surface topographic depressions, negative gravity anomalies, lack of surface runoff, collapse breccias, insoluble residue horizons, WIPP-33 sinkholes and caves, anomalous drawdowns, and salinity variations within boreholes. Intrastratal karst, if it exists, would bypass slow matrix flow in the Culebra Dolomite aquifer and be subject to fast flow in cave conduits. *Originally published in: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 109, p. 197-209, 2003. Reprinted with permission. FIGURE 1. Map of the Delaware Basin showing location of the Capitan reef, major dissolution depressions (troughs), and western dissolution edge of evaporites. A, B, C, D, E, F, and G correspond to the dissolution troughs of Maley and Huffington (1953), “DOMES” are Vine’s domes/ breccia pipes, CC = Carlsbad Cavern, LC = Lechuguilla Cave, BLS = Bell Lake Sink, MB = Malaga Bend of the Pecos River, and KD = karst domes. Laguna Grande de la Sal (Salt Lake), Nash Draw, and the WIPP site are also shown. From base map of Anderson (1981), modified by Hill (1996).","PeriodicalId":115438,"journal":{"name":"Caves and karst of southeastern New Mexico","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121212463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surficial geology in the vicinity of Washington Ranch","authors":"D. Love, L. Land","doi":"10.56577/ffc-.311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/ffc-.311","url":null,"abstract":"Piedmont slopes and river terraces near Washington Ranch reflect late Neogene geologic history, but are affected by both local and regional solution subsidence of the underlying evaporitic Castile Formation. The Black River currently is a discontinuous stream with local solution sinks and springs. Holocene and late Pleistocene alluvium, marsh, and tufa deposits mark the current river level, whereas two types of older terraces are preserved in the vicinity of Washington Ranch-fluvial gravel terraces, and a fine-grained gypsiferous “terrace” (?) deposit that indicates an episode of no coarse clastic transport along the river. Seven levels of clastic piedmont deposits with preserved surfaces ranging from highest remnants to modern tributary channels reflect changing base levels from the Guadalupe Escarpment toward the Black River and beyond. Older high piedmont levels west and northwest of the Black River cap outcrops of Castile Formation, whereas younger piedmont levels are graded close to the level modern tributaries and the Black River. The underlying Castile Formation is thinned markedly by solution and up to 100 m of coarse alluvium underlie the younger piedmont deposits, reflecting long-term subsidence of the distal parts of the piedmont and Black River. Ovoid karst features cut the piedmont deposits at all levels. Differences in spring and sinkhole water chemistries reflect different aquifers including the piedmont gravel aquifer of Rattlesnake Spring and the gypsic aquifer of Bottomless Lakes.","PeriodicalId":115438,"journal":{"name":"Caves and karst of southeastern New Mexico","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131700010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biothems: Biologically influenced speleothems in the caves of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA","authors":"J. Queen, L. Melim","doi":"10.56577/ffc-.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/ffc-.167","url":null,"abstract":"A BSTRACT . —Biothems are speleothems in which the morphology, internal structure or composition was influenced by organisms. This paper is a first attempt to identify biothems found in modern and fossil pools (former pools, now dry) of the Gua-dalupe Mountain caves. We have identified several features that suggest biologic involvement including patchy distribution, projecting forms, downwardly pendant forms, active slime (biofilm), mineralized slime, internal micritic or pelmicritic fabric and fossil filaments and/or fossil biofilm seen in the scanning electron microscope. We distinguish between Type 1 biothems, those containing direct evidence of microbial involvement, and Type 2 biothems, those suspected of biologic involvement but lacking obvious direct evidence. Type 1 biothems include bryolites, conical crusts, moonmilk (some varieties), pool fingers, ramose balls, rusticles, u-loops and webulites. Type 2 biothems include blades/chenille spar, drips, hemispheres, pinnacles/ conical mounds, scales, radiating flowers, tangential chips and tufted cushions. These terms are preliminary and meant to guide future research.","PeriodicalId":115438,"journal":{"name":"Caves and karst of southeastern New Mexico","volume":"22 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132974721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}