Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Publication Date

1965

Abstract

The Rayado area is 25 miles west of Springer, New Mexico, in the southeastern foothills of the Cimarron Mountains. The range is a northward-plunging anticline with a core of Precambrian crystalline rocks. The mountains are bordered on the west by a normal fault and on the east by the high-angle Fowler Pass thrust fault of Laramide age. Rocks of Permian through Upper Cretaceous age were turned upward along the fault forming a prominent north-south hogback through the western part of the area.

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

Stuart Alvord Northrop

Third Committee Member

Illegible

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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