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Petrology and Structure of the Eiksundsdal Eclogite Complex, Hareidland, Sunnmøre, Norway (1964) Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military ...
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.
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 Raton Formation contains economically important deposits of coal. These were first discovered in 1841 and mining began in 1873. Mining declined precipitously in the mid-20th century with the decline of the steel industry using the coal, but the formation is now being developed for coalbed methane.
35.10°N 106.60°W. / 35.10; -106.60. Country. United States. The Albuquerque Basin (or Middle Rio Grande Basin [1]) is a structural basin and ecoregion within the Rio Grande rift in central New Mexico. It contains the city of Albuquerque . Geologically, the Albuquerque Basin is a half-graben that slopes down towards the east to terminate on ...
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 ...
Sims received a B.A. in geology in 1986 from Colorado College, graduating lllCum lllLaude with llHonors. [8] He completed an M.Sc. at the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics [9] in 1989, where his research focused on chemical fractionation during the formation of the Earth’s core and continental crust.
"Geology of the Raton Mesa and other regions in Colorado and New Mexico". U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 101: 9–221; Pillmore, Charles L.; Flores, Romeo M. (1990). "Cretaceous and Paleocene rocks of the Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado--Stratigraphic-environmental framework" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field ...