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Map of Mesozoic exposures in New Mexico, USA. The Mesozoic began with the Permian-Triassic extinction event. [31] The Sevier and Nevadan orogenies pushed up mountains to the west of New Mexico that produced a rain shadow, giving New Mexico an exquisitely hot and dry climate through much of the early Mesozoic. [32] [33]
From the White Place, painting by Georgia O'Keefe depicting the Abiquiu Formation. The Abiquiu Formation is a geologic formation found in northern New Mexico. Radiometric dating constrains its age to between 18 million and 27 million years, corresponding to the late Oligocene to Miocene epochs.
"Tertiary stratigraphy and nomenclature for western New Mexico and eastern Arizona" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 45: 259–266; Gilbert, G.K. (1875). "Report upon the geology of portions of Nevada, Utah, California, and Arizona, examined in the years 1871 and 1872".
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Open-File Geologic Map Series. 46 (124) ... New Mexico Geological Society Special Volume 11. pp. 95–136.
The Hall Lake Formation, formerly called the Hall Lake Member, is a geological formation in Sierra County, New Mexico preserving Lancian fauna, most notably dinosaurs. It is regarded as a member of the McRae Group, including the Elephant Butte and Staton-LaPoint locales. [2]
The Bandelier Tuff is a geologic formation exposed in and around the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico.It has a radiometric age of 1.85 to 1.25 million years, corresponding to the Pleistocene epoch.
A brief history of geological studies in New Mexico : with biographical profiles of notable New Mexico geologists (First ed.). New Mexico Geological Society. ISBN 978-1-58546-011-3. Manley, K.A. (1977). "Geologic map of the northeastern part of the Espanola Basin, New Mexico showing the Cejia Member (new name) of the Tesuque Formation".
"Geologic map of the Valles caldera, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico". New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Map Series. 79: V13C–2606. Bibcode:2011AGUFM.V13C2606G; Griggs, R. L. (1964). "Geology and ground-water resources of the Los Alamos area, New Mexico". U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper. 1753.
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