Springs in The Rio Grande

Underwater photo of a gravel plume in Lava Tube spring. These dancing plumes consist of rounded river gravel as large as an inch in diameter. Photo by Paul Bauer.

We've put together a slideshow on the giant underwater spring in the Rio Grande in Taos County. You can read about the spring in New Mexico Geology (click the 'Pub Info' link).

The show includes an embedded video of the underwater gravel eruptions in the spring. When the show gets to the movie, you may need to click (or double click, or hit return) on the movie to get it to run.

Click on your preferred link below to download the presentation: 

• Windows-friendly Powerpoint - 18MB Self extracting ZIP, download, save to disc, and then double click on the presentation.  
• Mac-friendly Powerpoint - 22MB zipped
• Keynote (Mac only) - 24MB

sup_clast_comp.pdf: Supplemental material—clast compositions in Rio Grande terrace-fill deposits

sup_Mahan_data.pdf: Supplemental material—luminescence data

This geologic map is available in these formats:

• Map sheet with both shaded relief and contour base — includes map legend and cross sections.
• Shaded relief base — map only.
• Contoured topographic base — map only.
• GIS data — in an ArcGIS 10 geodatabase

Appendix 3: Sample Locality Data

Supplement 1: Includes diagrams of drainage basins, a block diagram of geomorphology, and schematic views of sediment transport.

Supplement 2: Includes analgyphs of lower Chaco Canyon generated by Rich Friedman from aerial photographs flown in 2001 (to be viewed using red and blue 3-D glasses). Also included are two shaded relief images with lighting from the east and northwest. Small versions of the stereo aerial photographs follow.

Supplement 3: Includes photographs of modern sedimentary structures in Chaco Canyon.

Supplement 4: Includes historic aerial and ground-based photographs of lower Chaco Canyon.

Supplement 5: Includes photographs of Locality 30.

These data are a continuation for catalogs 1962 through 1998 published as Circular 210 by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in 2002 and for 1999 through 2004 published in New Mexico Geology, (v. 28, no. 4, pp 99–109). See Circular 210: Earthquake catalogs for New Mexico and bordering areas: 1869–1998 for more information.

Note: csv is a comma delimited text file, xls is a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel format.

Appendix A—All magnitude > 0 earthquakes located in New Mexico and surrounding areas from 2005 through 2009. The events were separated into three groups: Socorro Seismic Anomaly (SSA) region (735 earthquakes, Tbl A1, Fig A1); Dagger Draw area in southeastern New Mexico (271 earthquakes, Tbl A2); the remainder of New Mexico and surrounding regions (RNM, 369 earthquakes, Tbl A3). Included are also Appendix figures (location maps) Figure 1 and Figure 2 in PDF format.

Data files for Circular 210: Earthquake catalogs for New Mexico and bordering areas: 1869–1998

(Note: several abbreviations are used in the data files.)

The data presented in Circular 210 are also available for download. Note that these data should be used in conjuction with the circular text, which can be purchased from our publications department or downloaded above (PDF version). The data is available as spreadsheets in MS Excel (xls) and as comma delimited text (csv) formats -- the maximum file size is 130 KB.

NOTES:

• Several abbreviations are used in the data files.
• Since the publication of Circular 210, additional data have been published in New Mexico Geology:
  • Data for 1999–2004 was published in New Mexico Geology v. 28 n. 4 and in a separate repository for that article:
    < http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/repository/index.cfm?rid=20060001 > .
  • Data for 2005–2009 was published in New Mexico Geology v. 35 n. 1 and in a separate repository for that article:
    < http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/repository/index.cfm?rid=20130001 >.

1. Earthquake catalogs for New Mexico and bordering areas-1962-1995, moment magnitude >= 1.3
   • Socorro Sesmic Area (csv file or xls file)
   • Remainder of New Mexico (csv file or xls file)
2. Earthquake catalogs for New Mexico and bordering areas-1962-1998, moment magnitude >= 2.0
   • Socorro Sesmic Area (csv file or xls file)
   • Remainder of New Mexico (csv file or xls file)
3. Earthquake catalogs for New Mexico and bordering areas-1962-1998, moment magnitude >= 3.0
   • Socorro Sesmic Area (csv file or xls file)
   • Remainder of New Mexico (csv file or xls file)
4. Listings of magnitude differences between New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and contributing institutions.
   • CLN NMIMT station (csv file or xls file)
   • LANL (csv file or xls file)
   • USGS (csv file or xls file)
   • UTEP (csv file or xls file)
   • ASL (csv file or xls file)
5. Seismograph station locations
   • 1962 - 1972 (PDF file, csv file, or xls file)
   • 1973 - 1982 (PDF file, csv file, or xls file)
   • 1983 - 1998 (PDF file, csv file, or xls file)
   • 1962 - 1998 (csv file, or xls file)

This data is a continuation of catalogs for 1962 through 1998 published as Circular 210 by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in 2002.  See Circular 210: Earthquake catalogs for New Mexico and bordering areas: 1869–1998 for more information.

Note: csv is a comma delimited text file, xls is a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel format.

• Stations, Code names and coordinates of seismograph stations (csv or xls format)
• Table 1, Socorro Seismic Anomaly earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.0 or greater (csv or xls format)
• Table 2, Remainder of New Mexico and bordering areas earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.0 or greater: 1999-2004 (csv or xls format)
• Table 3, Dagger Draw swarm earthquakes wiht magnitudes of 2.0 or greater: 1998-2004 (csv or xls format)
• Table 4, Raton Basin swarm earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.0 or greater: 2001-2004 (csv or xls format)