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Our awarding winning book — The Rio Grande: A River Guide to the Geology and Landscapes of Northern New Mexico — is finally back on our shelves and ready for purchase. The 122-page river-friendly guide contains a wonderful series of river maps, extending from southern Colorado to Cochiti Dam, along with easy-to-consume text that describes the fascinating geology along the way. Although this year’s river season may be coming to a close, our guide is a perfect gift for the upcoming holidays because it’s never too early to start planning your next northern New Mexico adventure. Click the title link to purchase the book online or view sample pages from the guide.

New Mexico has some of the world’s most spectacular caves. Each year, roughly half a million visitors flock to southeastern New Mexico to experience the underground splendor of Carlsbad Caverns National Park and hike in the rugged terrain of the Guadalupe Mountains. The area attracts more than just tourists. Scientists from all over the world study Carlsbad Cavern, Lechuguilla Cave, and other beautiful and enigmatic caves in the Guadalupe Mountains. These caves contain strange mineral deposits and large chambers that puzzled scientists and explorers for many years. We now know that these once-mysterious features are the result of an unusual cave-formation process known as sulfuric acid speleogenesis (cave formation by sulfuric acid).

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Daniel Jones, Victor Polyak, Harvey DuChene, and George Veni

We've assembled a convenient dashboard showing petroleum metrics specific to New Mexico. The metrics include NM rig count, spot prices for oil & gas, and production curves for NM.

The Publications Group at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology is actively seeking manuscripts for New Mexico Geology and our technical Bulletin and Memoir series.