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Dr. Lewis Land

Selected Publications

  1. Land L, Timmons S. 2016. Evaluation of groundwater residence time in a high mountain aquifer system (Sacramento Mountains, USA): Insights gained from use of multiple environmental tracers. Hydrogeology Journal 24 (4): 787-804.
  2. Land L. 2016. Overview of fresh and brackish water quality in New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-File Report 583.
  3. McCraw D, Land L. 2016. Sinkholes: A hidden, real New Mexico geohazard. Earth Matters. Winter, 2016.
  4. Land L, Asanidze L. 2015. Rollalong resistivity surveys reveal karstic paleotopography developed on near-surface gypsum bedrock. In: Doctor DH, Land L, Stephenson JB, editors. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impact of Karst, Rochester, Minnesota. National Cave and Karst Research Institute Symposium 5. Carlsbad (NM): National Cave and Karst Research Institute: 365-370.
  5. Land L. 2014. Sinkholes: The human impact. 2014 Britannica Book of the Year.
  6. Land L. 2013. Caves in New Mexico and the southwest. Lite Geology 34: 2-4.
  7. Land L. 2013. Evaporite karst in the Permian Basin region of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico: The human impact. In: Land L, Doctor DH, Stephenson JB, editors. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impact of Karst, Carlsbad, New Mexico. National Cave and Karst Research Institute Symposium 2. Carlsbad (NM): National Cave and Karst Research Institute: 113-121.
  8. Land L, Veni G. 2012. Electrical resistivity surveys of anthropogenic karst phenomena, southeastern New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 34 (4): 117-125.
  9. Land L. 2012. Geophysical prospecting for new cave passages: Fort Stanton Cave, New Mexico, USA. Carbonates and Evaporites 27 ( 2): 97-102.
  10. Land, L. & Huff, G. F., 2010, “Multi-tracer investigation of groundwater residence time in a karstic aquifer: Bitter Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA”: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 18, p. 455-472; also available as New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Open-File Report no. 521, 32 p.
  11. Land, L., 2009, “Anthropogenic sinkholes in the Delaware Basin Region: West Texas and southeastern New Mexico”: West Texas Geological Society Bulletin, v. 48, p. 10-22.
  12. Land, L., 2009, “The impact of hypogenic processes on water resources in the arid southwest: Examples from the lower Pecos region of New Mexico,USA”, in Stafford, K. W., Land, L. & Veni, G. (eds.), Advances in Hypogene Karst Studies, National Cave & Karst Research Institute Symposium no.1, p. 149-156.
  13. Land, L. & Burger, P., 2008, “Rapid recharge events in a karstic aquifer: An example from Lake of the White Roses, Lechuguilla Cave, NM”, in Proceedings of the Eleventh Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, Tallahassee, Florida: ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication no. 183, p. 396-403.
  14. Stafford, K., Land, L., & Klimchouk, A., 2008, “Hypogenic speleogenesis within Seven Rivers evaporites: Coffee Cave, Eddy County, New Mexico”: Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, v. 70, p. 47-61.
  15. Land, L. & Newton, B. T., 2007, “Seasonal and long-term variations in hydraulic head in a karstic aquifer: Roswell Artesian Basin, New Mexico”: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Open-File Report no. 503, 27 p.
  16. Land, L., Lueth, V., Raatz, B., Boston, P., & Love, D. (eds.), 2006, “Caves and Karst of Southeastern New Mexico”: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 57, 344 p.
  17. Land, L., 2005, “Evaluation of groundwater residence time in a karstic aquifer using environmental tracers: Roswell Artesian Basin, New Mexico”, in Proceedings of the Tenth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, San Antonio, Texas, 2005: ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication no. 144, p. 432-440.
  18. Land, L., Lautier, J., Wilson, N., Chianese, G., & Webb, S., 2004, “Geophysical Monitoring and Evaluation of Coastal Plain Aquifers”: Ground Water, v. 42, p. 59-67.
  19. Land, L., 2003, “Evaporite karst and regional ground water circulation in the lower Pecos Valley”, in Johnson, K.S. & Neal, J.T. (eds.), Evaporite Karst and Engineering/Environmental Problems in the United States: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 109, p. 227-232.
  20. Land, L. & Paull, C.K., 2001, "Thermal gradients as a tool for estimating ground water advective rates in a coastal estuary: White Oak River, North Carolina, USA": Journal of Hydrology, v. 248, p. 198-215.
  21. Land, L. & Paull, C.K., 2000, "Submarine karst belt rimming the continental slope in the Straits of Florida": Geo-Marine Letters, v. 20, p. 123-132.
  22. Land, L. & Paull, C.K., and Spiess, F., 1999, "Abyssal erosion and scarp retreat: Deep Tow observations of the Blake Escarpment and Blake Spur": Marine Geology, v. 160, p. 63-83.
  23. Land, L., Paull, C.K., & Hobson, B., 1995, "Genesis of a submarine sinkhole without subaerial exposure: Straits of Florida": Geology, v. 23, p. 949-951.