Flowing Mountains in Mexico

‘We had to climb mountains and cross fast-flowing rivers’

It was Dr Vincent Zigas who first started research into kuru and Dr Carleton Gajdusek joined him later. Vincent would drop us off and pick us up with his Landrover and we would patrol through the kuruaffected region with Carleton. Vincent was from Europe and we had great difficulty in understanding his Tok Pisin. He knew this, so he would purposely talk in a way that made us laugh. He was a goo...

Uranium deposits in the Datil Mountains--Bear Mountains region, New Mexico

Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national s...

Triassic Stratigraphy in the Zuni Mountains, West-central New Mexico

—The Triassic System in the Zuni Mountains consists of one Middle Triassic unit, the Moenkopi Formation, the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, and the Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic(?) Wingate Sandstone. The Chinle Group in the Zuni Mountains consists of six formations, in ascending order: Zuni Mountains (named here; = “mottled strata” of previous workers), Shinarump, Bluewater Creek, Petrified Fores...

Herpetology of the Zuni Mountains Region , Northwestern New Mexico

In decided contrast to the amount of herpetological information available for other southwestern states, relatively little is known about amphibians and reptiles in New Mexico. Several taxonomic papers have dealt with members of the state herpetofauna, but none have treated local distribution and differentiation in detail. It is the intent of this study, and of others in progress, to describe t...

Winter measurements of ozone over the Organ Mountains, New Mexico.