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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Northern New Mexico"”.
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Sedimentological constraints on Precambrian crustal evolution in northern New Mexico
The Precambrian of northern New Mexico is part of an extensive 1,800 to 1,500 m.y. terrane stretching from Colorado through northern New Mexico into central Arizona. Three lithostratigraphic sequences are present in New Mexico. The oldest consists of 1,760 to 1,720 m.y. metamorphosed bimodal …
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Polyphase Proterozoic tectonometamorphic history of the Taos Range, northern New Mexico
Proterozoic rocks in the Taos Range of northern New Mexico preserve components of a protracted tectonic history involving pre-1.7 Ga, 1.65 Ga, 1.4 Ga, and possible 1.1 Ga tectonism. The southern Taos Range is a 1.76 – 1.7 Ga volcano-plutonic complex with tectonically interlayered remnants of the …
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Fluvial sequence stratigraphy and paleoclimate of the Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) Chinle Strata, northern New Mexico.
… (Norian and Rhaetian) fluvial successions in New Mexico were evaluated from a sequence-stratigraphic and paleopedologic perspective. Meter-scale fining-upward fluvial aggradation cycles (FACs) comprise fluvial aggradational cycle sets (FACSETs) 4-15 m thick. FACSETs in turn stack into four …
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U.S. Forest Service policy in northern New Mexico : a case study of the Hassell Report--1967-2000
… result of a court house raid in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, on June 5, 1967, these actions of local landgrant activists made national headlines and elicited highlevel interest in the land management practices of the United States Forest Service (USFS) in northern New Mexico.' These actions were …
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Quartz-kyanite pods in Proterozoic rocks in northern New Mexico : shear zone formation along an older hydrothermal alteration horizon
… within the 1.7 Ga Vadito Group metarhyolite in northern New Mexico. These pods are discontinuous, lenticular, symmetrically zoned, and are stratiform within a map-scale sericitic horizon. Previous studies have not resolved whether the high-Al bulk composition of the quartz-kyanite pods was the …
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"El Amparo de la Ley": Hispanas' Use of Spanish Mexican and Anglo American Law in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, 1848-1912
… procedures based on English common law in both New Mexico and Colorado Territories. New Mexico retained a community property system which ensured more property rights for women than the common law. However, based on the legal records of Rio Arriba County in New Mexico and Conejos and Costilla …
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Desert design : re-thinking the adobe
… the natural landscape and the architecture of northern New Mexico. Through the design of a home and work-related out-buildings elements of reference are used to preserve an interplay between the landscape and the architecture. A dialogue between the largeness of the landscape and the …
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<i>La resolana</i>: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985
… network of artist collectives and communities in New Mexico and Texas from the late 1960s to early 1980s. Animated by the exigencies of the Chicano civil rights movement, they created work that, I argue, enacts a strategy that melds subversive historical revisionism and the reclamation of …
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Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West
… found their connection with the natural world in northern New Mexico where three cultures mingled against the backdrop of the Sangre de Christo Mountains. Everett Ruess spent four years wandering the Four-Corners canyonland region writing poetry, numerous letters, and painting, intermittently …
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The role of the Picuris orogeny in the tectonic evolution of Proterozoic North America
… Ga Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies, and the newly recognized ∼1.40 Ga Picuris orogeny. We address this question at local, regional, and continental scales using a variety of methods, including geochronology, structural analysis, and metamorphic petrology.</p> <p>Here we show that portions of …
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Remaining and becoming: Cultural crosscurrents in an Hispano school
… looks at the relationship between a school in Northern New Mexico and its rural community. By looking at a school within a community, I hoped to understand the community's expectations about the school being a fitting place for their children. Assuming that a school channels choices for …
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Spaña, New Mexico: Santos, Sonic and Second Cousins
… Hispano people of the Española Valley in Northern New Mexico, a population that to outsiders is commonly misunderstood and stereotyped. It is a population regarded with some mystery, awe, and admiration, as well as fear and hatred, a population that even to itself sometimes remains an …
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The Status and Sustainability of Acequias on the Lower Rio Chama River, New Mexico
Acequia communities throughout northern New Mexico are threatened by the loss of water rights and land to both urban and exurban development. Planning techniques are utilized to ascertain the status of acequias on the lower Rio Chama River, New Mexico, with the data applied to developing a model …
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Oxygen isotopes in diatom silica : a new understanding of silica-water oxygen isotope fractionation in diatom frustules and an application of diatom d180 values as a record of paleohydrologic variability in a middle-Pleistocene lacrustine core from the Valles Caldera, New Mexico
… freshwater systems in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. The frustules display a constant silica-water fractionation over the measured temperature range (5.1 to 37.8°C) regardless of species. This relationship is in close agreement with other published silica-water fractionation …
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Nutrient dynamics in a headwater stream : use of continuous water quality sensors to examine seasonal, event, and diurnal processes in the East Fork Jemez River, NM
… in the East Fork Jemez River (located in northern New Mexico) from 2010 – 2011 to investigate the temporal variability of nutrient concentrations and biogeochemical parameters and the controls on this variation. This thesis is split into two chapters representing two separate manuscripts …
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Bedrock and surficial geology of the southern half of the Montezuma 7.5' quadrangle, central Colorado Front Range, Colorado, USA
… ~1.48 -1.35 Ga orogeny has been recognized in northern New Mexico and Arizona, and more recently in Colorado. Mesoproterozoic deformation and metamorphism based on metamorphic monazite growth between ~1.43 Ga and ~1.42 Ga has previously been recognized in some areas of the Montezuma quadrangle …
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Mora county, New Mexico, and Tapetes de Lana: Weaving the tapestry of poverty and cultural preservation
Mora County, New Mexico, has rich natural beauty and a long history of economic success followed by failure. The future of the county is uncertain, but a nonprofit corporation, Tapetes de Lana, has been founded to revive traditional crafts and at the same time provide a sustainable, community-based …
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The impact of wildfire on avian communities: exploring habitat associations two decades after fire
… This study focused on the Ponil Complex Fire in northern New Mexico and the Hayman Fire in southern Colorado, both of which burned in 2002. We found continued divergence between vegetation recovery at low- and high-severity sites, though this divergence was more pronounced at the Hayman Fire. We …
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An Empire of Dust: Thomas Benton Catron and the Age of Capital in the Hispano Borderlands, 1840-1921
An Empire of Dust' follows New Mexico's economic history from the arrival of merchant capitalism in the early nineteenth century to the maturation of a modern, state-oriented, capitalist economy by the 1920s. Within this scope, I investigate the economic life of …
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OBAMACARE IN NEW MEXICO: THE NEW MEXICO HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE: WHO OR WHAT INFLUENCES AND MOTIVATES HISPANIC INDIVIDUALS TO ENROLL?
… commonly called Obamacare, is also known as the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange (NMHIX). The study is specifically designed to examine the participants lived experiences and opinions regarding the acquisition, or opposition to health care insurance coverage. I have employed the hermeneutic …
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