New Mexico Geology
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Volume 46, Number 1
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Online ISSN: 2837-6420
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View looking west along the top of Railroad Mountain, an olivine diabase dike in Chaves County, New Mexico (1.95 MB PDF)
View looking west along the top of Railroad Mountain, an olivine diabase dike in Chaves County, New Mexico (1.95 MB PDF)
— James Constantopoulos
View looking west along the top of Railroad Mountain, an olivine diabase dike in Chaves County, New Mexico. Railroad Mountain forms a resistant ridge with up to 25 m of relief and is the easternmost intrusive body of the Lincoln County porphyry belt. The dike is dated at 27.66 Ma and was intruded at the edge of the stable North American craton at the beginning of Rio Grande rifting.
Contents:
Petrogenesis of the Railroad Mountain Alkali Olivine Diabase Dike: Intrusion at the Edge of the Stable Craton in Eastern New Mexico (10.2 MB PDF)
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— James Constantopoulos
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