New Mexico Geological Society
Fall Field Conference Guidebook - 55
Geology of the Taos Region
Brian Brister, Paul W. Bauer, Adam S. Read and Virgil W. Lueth, eds., 2004, 440 pages.
We return to Taos after a 20-year hiatus. On the 1984 field
conference (Guidebook 35), participants circumnavigated the Picuris Mountains
on Day 1, explored high into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
on Day 2, and crossed the rift into the Tusas Mountains on Day
3. This year, the focus of the conference is quite different. We
spend all of the first two days investigating the southern San
Luis rift basin. On Day 1 (6 stops, 107 miles), we trace the dramatic
Rio Grande gorge, stopping periodically to delve into the
geologic history of the sedimentary and volcanic materials that fill
the rift and the geomorphic history of the Rio Grande and its
tributaries. On Day 2 (5 stops, 49 miles), we plot a course along
the southeast boundary of the basin, tracking the structurally
complex transition from the master rift fault zone to the rift
accommodation zone. On Day 3 (3 stops, 23 miles), we cross from
the San Luis to Espanola Basins, stalking elusive pre-rift structural
basins and their spectacular sedimentary sequences.
The roadlogs and papers in this guidebook and the field conference
presentations highlight a vast body of new geologic data
emerging from the Taos area.
ISBN: 9781585460908
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