Taos County

Projects
- Arroyo Seco, Taos County
- Arroyo Hondo, Taos County
- Northern Taos Plateau, Taos County
- Pueblo of Picuris
- Rio Grande Gorge Springs, Taos County
- Southern Taos Valley, Taos County
AMP-Relevant Publications
Download Open-file Report 544:
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Hydrogeologic investigation of the northern Taos Plateau, Taos County, New Mexico
2011, Peggy S. Johnson and Paul W. Bauer
Download Poster:
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Hydrogeology of the Northern Taos Plateau, Taos County
2011, Peggy S. Johnson and Paul W. Bauer
Download Open-file Report 505:
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Hydrogeologic investigation of the Arroyo Hondo Area, Taos County
2007, Peggy S. Johnson, Paul W. Bauer, and Brigitte Felix
Download Open-file Report 506:
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Springs of the Rio Grande Gorge, Taos County, New Mexico: Inventory, data report, and preliminary geochemistry
2007, Paul W. Bauer, Peggy S. Johnson, and Stacy Timmons
Download Open-file Report 492:
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Geology and hydrogeology of the Arroyo Seco area, Taos County, New Mexico; Final technical report
2005, Geoffrey C. Rawling
Selected References
- Aby, S. and Hallet, B., 2007, Preliminary geologic map of the Tres Ritos 7.5 minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 145, scale 1:24,000.
- Aby, S. and Timmons, J.M., 2005, Preliminary geologic map of the El Valle 7.5 minute quadrangle, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and Taos Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 105, scale 1:24,000.
- Akin, P. D., and Borton, R. L., 1971, General geology and ground water conditions in the Tres Piedras area, Taos and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico State Engineer Open-File Report, 7 p.
- Aldrich, M. J., and Dethier, D. P., 1990, Stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the northern Española basin, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 1695–1705.
- Bankey, V., Grauch, V. J. S., Drenth, B., and Geophex, Inc., 2006, Digital data from the Santa Fe East and Questa-San Luis helicopter magnetic surveys in Santa Fe and Taos Counties, NM, and Costilla County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2006–1170, 4 pp with maps; available as digital product only at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1170/.
- Baldridge, W. S., Dickerson, P. W., Riecker, R. E., and Zidek, J. (eds.), 1984, Guidebook to Rio Grande rift, northern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 35, 380 p.
- Bauer, P. W. and Johnson, P. S., 2010, A rare, large artesian subaqueous spring in the upper Rio Grande: New Mexico Geology, v. 32, no. 1, p. 26–27.
- Bauer, P. W., 2010, The Rio Grande Gorge, in The Geology of Northern New Mexico’s Parks, Monuments, and Public Lands, L. G. Price, ed., New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, p. 189–199.
- Bauer, P. W., 2010, The Southern Rocky Mountains, in The Geology of Northern New Mexico’s Parks, Monuments, and Public Lands, L. G. Price, ed., New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, p. 219–272.
- Bauer, P. W., 2005, The geology and landscape of the Taos region: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Mining in New Mexico, New Mexico Decision-Makers Field Guide No. 4, p. 7–11.
- Bauer, P. W., and Helper, M., 1994, Geology of the Trampas 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Geologic Map GM-71, scale 1:24,000.
- Bauer, P. W., and Kelson, K., 1999, Geology of the Taos SW 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 12, scale 1:12,000.
- Bauer, P. W., and Kelson, K., 2000, Geology of the Ranchos de Taos 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 33, scale 1:12,000.
- Bauer, P. W., and Kelson, K., 2002, Geology of the Taos 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 43, scale 1:12,000.
- Bauer, P. W., Kelson, K. I. and Aby, S. B., 2005, Geologic map of the Penasco 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file geologic map OF-GM 62, scale 1:24,000.
- Bauer, P. W., Johnson, P. S., and Timmons, S., 2008, Springs of the Rio Grande Gorge, Taos County, New Mexico: Inventory, Data Report, and preliminary geochemistry: Final Technical Report for Taos County, New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Open-File Report 506, 21 p. plus plates and appendices.
- Bauer, P. W. Helper, M. A., and Aby, S., 2005, Revised preliminary geologic map of the Trampas 7.5 minute quadrangle, Rio Arriba and Taos Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file Geologic Map OF-GM 104, scale 1:24,000.
- Bauer, P. W., Johnson, P. J., and Kelson, K. I., 1999, Geology and hydrogeology of the southern Taos Valley, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-File Report 501, 80 p., with 4 oversize plates.
- Bauer, P. W., Lucas, S. G., Mawer, C. K., and McIntosh, W. C. (eds.), 1990, Tectonic development of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 41, 450 p.
- Benson, A. L., 2004, Groundwater geology of Taos County: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 55, p. 420–432.
- Bliss, J. H., 1928, Seepage study on Rio Grande between State line bridge, Colorado, and Embudo, New Mexico, and between Alamosa, Colorado, and Embudo, New Mexico: New Mexico State Engineer, Ninth Bienn. Report, 1928–1930, July 1928, p. 27–40.
- Brimhall, R. M., and Titus, F. B., 1967, Hydrologic reconnaissance and recommendations for ground-water development on the D. H. Lawrence Ranch, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Open-File Report, 24 p.
- Brister, B. S., Bauer, P. W., Read, A. S., and Lueth, V. W., eds., 2004, Geology of the Taos Region, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 55, 448 p.
- Bryan, Kirk, 1928, Preliminary report on the geology of the Rio Grande Canyon as affecting the increase in flow of the Rio Grande south of the New Mexico—Colorado boundary: New Mexico State Engineer 9th Biennial Report, 1928–1930, p. 107–120.
- Chapin, C. E., and Cather, S. M., 1994, Tectonic setting of the axial basins of the northern and central Rio Grande rift; in Keller, G. R. and Cather, S. M. (eds.), Basins of the Rio Grande rift: Structure, stratigraphy, and tectonic setting: Geological Society of America Special Paper 291, p. 5–25.
- Coons, L. M., and Kelly, T. E., 1984, Regional hydrogeology and the effect of structural control on the flow of groundwater in the Rio Grande trough, northern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 35, p. 241–244.
- Cordell, L., 1978, Regional geophysical setting of the Rio Grande rift: Geological Society of America Bulletin 89, p. 1073–1090.
- Cordell, L., and Keller, G. R., 1984, Regional structural trends inferred from gravity and aeromagnetic data in the New Mexico—Colorado border region: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 35, p. 21–23.
- Crouch, T. M., 1985, Potentiometric surface, 1980, and water level changes, 1969–80, in the unconfined valley-fill aquifers of the San Luis Basin, Colorado and New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey, Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-683, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
- Drakos, P., and Lazarus, J., 1998, Hydrogeologic characterization, surface water-ground water interaction, and water quality in the southern San Luis basin in the vicinity of Taos, New Mexico: Proceedings of the 1998 Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum, p. 104–114.
- Dungan, M. A., Muehlberger, W. R., Leininger, L., Peterson, C., McMillan, N. J., Gunn, G., Lindstrom, M., and Haskin, L., 1984, Volcanic and sedimentary stratigraphy of the Rio Grande Gorge and the Late Cenozoic geologic evolution of the southern San Luis Valley: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 35, p. 157–170.
- Garn, H. S., 1984, Spatial and temporal variations in water quality of the Rio Grande—Red River Wild and Scenic River, Taos County, New Mexico; in Selected papers on water quality and pollution in New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Hydrologic Report 7, p. 49–59.
- Garn, H. S., 1985, Point and nonpoint source trace elements in a wild and scenic river of northern New Mexico: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, v. 40, no. 5, p. 458–462.
- Garrabrant, L. A., 1993, Water resources of Taos County, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 93–4107, 86 p.
- Gruner, J. W., 1920, Geologic reconnaissance of the southern part of the Taos Range, New Mexico: Journal of Geology, v. 28, no. 8.
- Hawley, J. W. (compiler), 1978, Guidebook to Rio Grande rift in New Mexico and Colorado: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Circular 163, 241 p.
- Hearne, G. A., and Dewey, J. D., 1988, Hydrologic analysis of the Rio Grande basin north of Embudo, New Mexico, Colorado and New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 86–4113, 244 p.
- Heffern, E. L., 1990, A geologic overview of the Wild Rivers Recreation Area, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 41, p. 229–236.
- Jenkins, D. N., 1959, Ground-water conditions and geology of Sunshine Valley and western Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico State Engineer Technical Report 12.
- Johnson, P. S., Bauer, P. W. and Felix, B., 2009, Hydrogeology of the Arroyo Hondo area, Taos County, New Mexico: Final Technical Contract Report for Taos County: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Open-File Report 505, 35 p. plus plates and appendices.
- Keller, G. R., Cordell, Lindrith, Davis, G. H., et al., 1984, A geophysical study of the San Luis Basin: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 35, p. 51–58.
- Kelson, K. I., 1986, Long-term tributary adjustments to base level lowering in northern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico [M. S. thesis]: University of New Mexico, 210 p.
- Kelson, K.I. and Bauer, P.W., 2008, Geologic map of the Guadalupe Mountain 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file geologic map OF-GM 168, scale 1:24,000.
- Kelson, K.I. and Bauer, P.W., 2006, Geologic map of the Arroyo Hondo 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file geologic map OF-GM 116, scale 1:24,000.
- Kelson, K. I., and Bauer, P. W., 2003, Geology of the Los Cordovas 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 63, scale 1:24,000.
- Kelson, K. I., and Bauer, P. W., 1998, Geology of the Carson 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF GM-22, scale 1:12,000.
- Kelson, K. I., and Wells, S. G., 1987, Present-day fluvial hydrology and long-term tributary adjustments, northern New Mexico; in Quaternary tectonics, landform evolution, soil chronologies and glacial deposits—northern Rio Grande rift of New Mexico: Friends of the Pleistocene-Rocky Mountain Cell Guidebook, p. 95–109.
- Kelson, K.I., Bauer, P. W., and Rawling, G., 2010, Geologic map of the Arroyo Seco 7.5-minute quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file geologic map OF-GM 170, scale 1:24,000.
- Koning, D.J., Aby, S., and Kelson, K., 2007, Preliminary geologic map of the Taos Junction quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 144, scale 1:24,000.
- Koning, D. J., Karlstrom, K. E., May, J., Skotnicki, S. J., Horning, R., Newell, D., Muehlberger, W. R., 2005, Preliminary geologic map of the Ojo Caliente 7.5 minute quadrangle, Rio Arriba and Taos Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-File Digital Geologic Map OF-GM 101, scale 1:24,000.
- Lambert, P. W., 1966, Notes on the late Cenozoic geology of the Taos–Questa area, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 17, p. 43–50.
- Leininger, R. L., 1982, Cenozoic evolution of the southernmost Taos plateau, New Mexico [M.S. thesis]: University of Texas at Austin, 110 p.
- Lipman, P. W., and Mehnert, H. H., 1975, Late Cenozoic basaltic volcanism and development of the Rio Grande depression in the southern Rocky Mountains: Geological Society of America Memoir 144, p. 119–154.
- Lipman, P. W., and Mehnert, H. H., 1979, The Taos Plateau volcanic field, northern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico; in Riecker, R. C. (ed.), Rio Grande rift: Tectonics and magmatism: American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., p. 289–311.
- Lipman, P. W., and Reed, J. C., Jr., 1989, Geologic map of the Latir volcanic field and adjacent areas: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Investigations Map I-1907, scale 1: 48,000.
- Machette, M. N., and Personius, S. F., 1984, Quaternary and Pliocene faults in the eastern part of the Aztec quadrangle and the western part of the Raton quadrangle, northern New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey, Map MF-1465-B, scale 1:250,000.
- McKinlay, P. F., 1956, Geology of Costilla and Latir Peak quadrangles, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 42, 32 p.
- McKinlay, P. F., 1957, Geology of the Questa quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 53, 23 p.
- Muehlberger, W. R., 1979, The Embudo fault between Pilar and Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico: An active intracontinental transform fault: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 30, p. 77–82.
- Northrop, S. A., and Read, C. B. (eds.), 1966, Guidebook of Taos-Raton-Spanish Peaks Country, New Mexico and Colorado: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 17, 128 p.
- Pazzaglia, F. J., and Wells, S. G., 1990, Quaternary stratigraphy, soils and geomorphology of the northern Rio Grande rift: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 41, p. 423–430.
- Personius, S. F., and Machette, M. N., 1984, Quaternary faulting in the Taos Plateau region, northern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 30, p. 83–90.
- Rawling, G. C., 2005, Geology and Hydrogeology of the Arroyo Seco Area, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Open-File Report 492, 28 p. plus plates.
- Rehder, T. R., 1986, Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and petrography of the Picuris Formation in Ranchos de Taos and Tres Ritos quadrangles, north-central New Mexico [M.S. thesis]: Southern Methodist University, 110 p.
- Shomaker, John W. and Johnson, Peggy, 2005, Hydrology and Water Supply in the Taos Region: New Mexico Decision-Makers Field Guide No. 4, Mining in New Mexico—the Environment, Water, Economics, and Sustainable Development, p. 12-15.
- Spiegel, Zane, 1962, Hydraulics of certain stream-connected aquifer systems: New Mexico State Engineer Special Report, 102 p.
- Spiegel, Zane, 1969, Geology and ground-water conditions at Arroyo Hondo, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico State Engineer Open-File Report, 22 p.
- Spiegel, Zane, and Couse, I. W., 1969, Availability of ground water for supplemental irrigation and municipal-industrial uses in the Taos Unit of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation San Juan–Chama Project, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico State Engineer, Open-File Report, 22 p.
- Summers, W. K., and Hargis, L. L., 1985, Commentary on hydrogeologic cross section through Sunshine Valley, Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 7, no. 3, p. 54–55.
- Wells, S. G., Kelson, K. I., and Menges, C. M., 1987, Quaternary evolution of fluvial systems in the northern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico and Colorado: Implications for entrenchment and integration of drainage systems; in Quaternary tectonics, landform evolution, soil chronologies and glacial deposits—Northern Rio Grande rift of New Mexico: Friends of the Pleistocene-Rocky Mountain Cell Guidebook, p. 95–109.
- Williams, R. S., Jr., and Hammond, S. E., 1989, Selected water quality characteristics and flow of ground water in the San Luis Basin, including the Conejos River subbasin, Colorado and New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigations Report 89–4040, 43 p.
- Winograd, I. J., 1955, Groundwater for stock and domestic purposes in the vicinity of Taos Junction, Tres Piedras, and No Aqua, Taos and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 55–202, 20 p.
- Winograd, I. J., 1959, Ground-water conditions and geology of Sunshine Valley and western Taos County, New Mexico: New Mexico State Engineer Office, Technical Report 12, 70 p.


