Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

E.A. Noble

Publication Date

Spring 4-22-1950

Abstract

The Ladron Mountains are in a fault-block range consisting in large part of Pre-Cambrian rocks. They are flanked on the west by Paleozoic sediments and elsewhere by Tertiary and Quaternary deposits. The Pre-Cambrian rocks of the southern Ladron Mountains consist of a thick sequence of quartzite and schist which has been granitized by a sub-adjacent intrusion to such a degree that only remnants of unaltered quartzite and schist remain, the remainder of the rocks being largely paragneiss and para-granite. The nature of the intrusion is not known, but it is suggested that it may have been at least partly formed by palingenesis or anatexis during plutonic infolding of the metasediments

Degree Name

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

First Committee Member (Chair)

Vincent Cooper Kelley

Second Committee Member

Carl Wellington Beck

Third Committee Member

J. Paul Fitzsimmons

Language

English

Keywords

Ladron Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico, Stratigraphy, Economic Geology

Document Type

Thesis

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