Open AccessOutcrop Analysis of the Cretaceous Mesaverde Group: Jicarilla Apache Reservation, New Mexico
Author(s) -
Jennie L. Ridgley,
Robin Wright Dunbar
Publication year - 2001
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/778489
Subject(s) - outcrop , cretaceous , shapefile , geology , reservation , group (periodic table) , forestry , geography , cartography , paleontology , physics , computer science , world wide web , quantum mechanics , metadata , computer network
Field work for this project was conducted during July and April 1998, at which time fourteen measured sections were described and correlated on or adjacent to Jicarilla Apache Reservation lands. A fifteenth section, described east of the main field area, is included in this report, although its distant location precluded use in the correlations and cross sections presented herein. Ground-based photo mosaics were shot for much of the exposed Mesaverde outcrop belt and were used to assist in correlation. Outcrop gamma-ray surveys at six of the fifteen measured sections using a GAD-6 scintillometer was conducted. The raw gamma-ray data are included in this report, however, analysis of those data is part of the ongoing Phase Two of this project