{"title":"A First Report of the Ichnogenus curvolithus From the Mojado Formation, Cerro De Cristo Rey, Sunland Park, New Mexico.","authors":"Jahir Sanchez, Eric J. Kappus","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2800","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a continuing investigation of trace fossils from the lower-most, Albian Sarten Member of the Mojado Formation, we report the first description of Curvolithus simplex at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Sunland Park, New Mexico. C.simplex is a horizontal, three-lobed trace interpreted as a repichnia. Other traces in this ichnoassemblage that are commonly associated with the Cruziana ichnofacies include Thalassinoides, Arthrophycus, Planolities, scratch marks (and others not yet reported). Our Curvolithus specimensare preserved exclusively in convex epirelief on iron-stained, massive sandstones, interbedded with thin grey shales. At this location the lower contact of the Sarten Member is easily distinguishable from the Mesilla Valley Formation below. Although the base of the Mojado Formation was originally defined arbitrarily by the thickness of sandstone interbeds, or a change in sandstone lithology, we see a distinct change in ichnoassemblages between these two Formations, which may be used to define the contact in the future.","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75026653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Decade in Snowy River: Stalking the Mammoth Cave of the West","authors":"D. G. Davis","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87727016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. May, S. Lucas, H. Kerp, W. DiMichele, J. B. Rogers
{"title":"An early Permian fossil flora from the Arroyo de Alamillo Formation of the Yeso Group, Socorro County, NM","authors":"P. May, S. Lucas, H. Kerp, W. DiMichele, J. B. Rogers","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"20 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84988833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring Bats on the Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area","authors":"Debbie C. Buecher, D. Northup","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81829366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resistivity Measurements at Fort Stanton Cave New Mexico","authors":"J. McLean","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2815","url":null,"abstract":"Earth resistivity measurements near Fort Stanton Cave were begun shortly after the discovery of the Snowy River passage in 2001. Resistive anomalies were frequently detected ahead of the progress of underground exploration and survey of the cave passages, and later shown to represent cave passages when the survey lines passed through the anomalies. Many other anomalies are present between and adjacent to the passages currently known.","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82558161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connectivity and Rainfall-Runoff Relationships in Flashy Ephemeral Systems","authors":"Sandra Glasgo","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89554282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating the Blm Proposal Submission Process to Gain Scientific Entries to Fort Stanton Cave","authors":"Knutt Peterson","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85344223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mineral Resource Potential of Land Parcels in Southwest New Mexico","authors":"Kyle T. Stafford, V. McLemore","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89687621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary estimates of dinosaur size and speed at the Early Cretaceous Clayton Lake dinosaur tracksite, Union County, New Mexico","authors":"J. B. Rogers, Michael A. Kvasnak, S. Lucas","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2797","url":null,"abstract":"The Early Cretaceous (late Albian) dinosaur tracksite at Clayton Lake in Union County encompasses approximately 533 dinosaur tracks, 182 of which are organized into 28 trackways. Most of the trackways were made by bipedal ornithopod dinosaurs, but two trackways were made by bipedal theropods, and one was made by a quadrupedal ankylosaur. To estimate dinosaur speeds from the trackways, we employed the methods of Alexander (1976, 1989) and Thulborn (1990) that rely on footprint lengths and strides as the raw data from which to estimate size and speed. On the Clayton tracks, we measured total length and width as highest edge to highest edge (rim to rim) of the maximum track shape. Though not ideal, this approach was dictated by the quality and nature of track preservation and provided a consistent methodology. For deeper tracks, these measurements are similar to the “negative vertical displacement” approach, but less than the “maximum zone of deformation.” This approach neither captures the true footprint dimensions nor the full extent of extramorphological variation but does represent the maximum lengths and widths on the bedding plane surface. Track length was measured from the anterior tip of digit III to the base of the “heel” margin, actual or inferred. In some cases, our measured track lengths exceed the true foot length of the trackmaker, and these tracks are unsuitable for size and speed estimates. However, some trackways have a “best” track(s) that exhibit(s) some combination of clear track outline, high angle footwalls, and “impressed” positives. We estimated size and speed for these. The results (using the method of Alexander, 1976) are that all of the ornithopod trackways show walking speeds of ~ 2-to 7 km /hour. The relatively fastest dinosaur speed at Clayton Lake may be","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87749330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caves in the Upper Pecos Watershed","authors":"D. McQuillan","doi":"10.56577/sm-2022.2850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56577/sm-2022.2850","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cave and Karst Studies","volume":"343 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74096608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}