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The geology of New Mexico includes bedrock exposures of four physiographic provinces, with ages ranging from almost 1800 million years (Ma) to nearly the present day. Here the Great Plains, southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, and Basin and Range Provinces meet, giving the state great geologic diversity.
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The Mogollon-Datil volcanic field is a large (40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi)) [2] silicic volcanic field in western New Mexico (Mogollon Mountains - Datil, New Mexico). It is a part of an extensive Eocene to Oligocene volcanic event which includes the San Juan volcanic field in southwestern Colorado, the Trans-Pecos volcanic field in ...
Website. www.nmt.edu. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech or NMT), formerly New Mexico School of Mines, is a public university in Socorro, New Mexico, United States. It offers over 30 bachelor of science degrees in technology, the sciences, engineering, management, and technical communication, as well as graduate ...
The Kneeling Nun Tuff is a geologic formation exposed in southwest New Mexico.It has a radiometric age of 35.3 million years, corresponding to the latest Eocene epoch.. The formation consists of over 900 cubic kilometers (220 cu mi) of tuff erupted by the Emory caldera of the Mogollon-Datil volcanic field.
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 ...
The Albuquerque volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field in the Albuquerque Basin in New Mexico, United States. It is located about 7 miles (11 km) west of the city of Albuquerque, and is contained within the borders of Petroglyph National Monument. [1] The field was active from 190,000 to 155,000 years ago [2] and includes lava flows ...
Spears Group (New Mexico) Show map of the United States Show map of New Mexico Show all. The Spears Group is a group of geologic formations exposed in and around the northeast Mogollon-Datil volcanic field of southwestern New Mexico. [2][3] It has a radiometric age of 33 to 39 million years, corresponding to the Eocene to Oligocene epochs.