Postcards from the Field

"I have been working along Milligan Gulch with Kevin Hobbs and Kristin Pearthree (both of the NM Bureau of Geology) to make a geologic map of the Fort Craig quadrangle. Milligan Gulch is the canyon immediately south of the dirt road to Fort Craig, located about 30 miles south of Socorro. This canyon has a fantastic set of terraces, which can be correlated to terraces flanking the west side of the Rio Grande..."