NMSU Geologists at the NMGS Fall Field Conference.

Here's an interesting site to show earthquakes over the last 45 years and their relationship to plate boundaries. seismic-explorer.concord.org

Senior WSMR Archeologist Mike Stowe with NMSU MS student Alexis Salmeron looking at fossilized Giant Sloth footprints in the Missile Range last week.

Our NMSU MS program applications are due Feb 15 but it's recommended to get them in early! Please see geology.nmsu.edu for information about potential advisors and projects!

Less than one week until Homecoming! All NMSU Geological Sciences alumni are invited to our Hall of Fame luncheon on 11/8, and our field trip to Aden Crater on 11/9! Contact the department for details!

NMSU Geological Sciences Alumni and Friends! Our 2024 newsletter has been published. If you didn't get a copy, contact the department with your email address and we will send you one.

Great talk today in our Colloquium by U. of Arizona (University of Arizona Geosciences) post-doc Dr. Clay Cambell, sharing the results of his work on the tectonics of Turkey from 100 Ma to the Quaternary. Double subduction! Lithospheric drips! Detrital zircons! Hafnium isotopes! Thanks for the visit.

What are your favorite geology auto-correct fails? Here are my top 3: Mafic->Magic. Lots of magic rocks out there. Footwall->Footwall. There's significant football deformation. And Diapir->Diaper. Gotta watch out for those salt diapers! Do you have any others?

Some great pictures of the Iceland eruption in the The Washington Post today.

Great talk by NMSU MS student Leo Kuyl on his study of the Crevasse Canyon formation in New Mexico.

Thanks to Julia Ricci from NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences and the NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in Socorro for giving our Colloquium yesterday on the many uses of Argon geochronology.

Spread the word, NMSU Geological Sciences has TA positions in the MS program for Fall 2025 in the fields of Structure/Tectonics, Geochemistry, Sed/Strat, Paleoclimate, and Volcanology/Petrology. See our website for more details. geology.nmsu.edu

The perfect watch for those who love copper carbonate hydroxide minerals AND timepieces!

Newly published in the latest (January 2025) issue of Geological Society of America Bulletin is this paper on a newly discovered Proterozoic assemblage on Seward Peninsula of Alaska. Dr. Amato is one of three coauthors. geosociety

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Congrats to Camila and Emma on their GSA grants! Thanks geosociety.

Notable quake, preliminary info: M 5.0 - 53 km NW of Toyah, Texas earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

I have lived here for over 25 years and this was the first earthquake I have felt in Las Cruces. Turns out it was a magnitude 5.0 in west Texas, south of Carlsbad, about 160 miles away from Las kfoxtv.com/news/local/mil…

This shaking map indicates squares where the USGS has received a report of shaking, and its intensity.

New monograph (170 pages!) published today by the NM Natural History.