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The geologic history of the state began with its assembly during the Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies 1750 to 1650 million years ago (Mya). This was followed by 200 million years of tectonic quiescence that ended in the Picuris orogeny. This event transformed the New Mexico crust into mature continental crust.
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Named by. Hayden. Year defined. 1869. The Santa Fe Group is a group of geologic formations in New Mexico and Colorado. It contains fossils characteristic of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs. The group consists of basin -filling sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Rio Grande rift, and contains important regional ...
Named by. W.T. Lee. Year defined. 1909. San Andres Formation, United States (New Mexico) San Andres Formation caps Sierra de la Cruz northeast of Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The San Andres Formation is a geologic formation found in New Mexico and Texas. It contains fossils characteristic of the late Leonardian (Kungurian) Age) of the Permian Period.
"Geological studies of the Guadalupe Mountains area, New Mexico and West Texas, to 1928" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 57: 127–144; Lang, W.B. (1937). "The Permian formations of the Pecos Valley of New Mexico and Texas". American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. 21 (7): 833–898.
New Mexico Geological Society Special Publication. 14: 111–122; Broadhead, Ronald F. (2019). "Carbon Dioxide in the Subsurface of Northeastern New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 70: 101–108; Hunt, Adrian P.; Lucas, Spencer G. (1996).
The Artesia Group is interpreted as a sequence of shelf rocks of the Capitan reef.It shows cyclicity and considerable lateral variation, from carbonate rocks near the Capitan reef, to mixed dolomitic mudstone, evaporites, and sandstones of a lagoon environment further from the reef, to a near-shore environment of evaporites, massive red siltstones, and minor amounts of dolomite.
The geology of New Mexico. A geologic history: New Mexico Geological Society Special Volume 11. New Mexico Geological Society. pp. 95–136. ISBN 978-1585460106. Lucas, Spencer G.; Barrick, James E.; Krainer, Karl; Schneider, Jorg W. (2016). "Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary at Carrizo Arroyo, central New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological ...
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet ...