Alien sand: New Mexico's Mescalero Sands.(GOINGPLACES)

Cruising Rider;  December 15, 2004 ;     651 words ......trail systems in the sand. Allison has a few favorite riding facilities in the greater Roswell area. One of them is the Mescalero Sands, located 45 miles northwest of Roswell. The 600-acre dune area is an incredible trail system. I'd rank it behind more common...

Effect of Hydrologic and Geochemical Conditions on Oxygen-Enhanced...

Bioremediation Journal;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......area. The saturated and unsaturated sediments at the site are Pleistocene to Holocene age and are comprised of well-sorted, eolian sand grains that impart little to no anisotropy to the direction of groundwater flow or contaminant transport. The aquifer is underlain...

Clovis and Folsom age estimates: stratigraphic context and radiocarbon...

Antiquity;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......post-Pleistocene aggradation, is silty sand or fine sandy silt commonly lacking coarser channel facies and is probably slope-washed eolian sand or loess. Subsequent alluvial units ([Gamma], [Delta], [Epsilon]) are derived from slope wash and reworking of earlier alluvial...

Coal Power Plant Waste Plan Opposed in Kansas

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......miles to the southeast of the city of Holcomb. Groundwater currently flows in the general direction of the City. The Kansas Geological Survey designates this area as primarily eolian sand or dune sand, which is highly permeable. See www.kgs.ku.

Neotectonic and Landscape Evolution of the Gödöllo Hills, Central...

Geolines;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......regions and is composed of late Miocene-Pliocene delta and fluvial sequences covered by up to 40 m Quaternary loess and/or eolian sand. Morphologically it consists of two relatively elevated and dissected ridges (Valk and ri Ridge) separated by a wide valley...

THE DEVONIAN OF THE HODH AREA (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA):...

Journal of Paleontology;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the Silurian-Devonian boundary. However, the upper part of the Aratane Group is sporadically exposed in an area partly screened by modern eolian sand, and at an outcrop-scale there is no evidence of non deposition or deep erosion that could acc

Geology and Geomorphology of the Lake Michigan Coast. (Special Session).

Michigan Academician;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......western edge of the basin is likely LMF clay overlapping the barrier suggesting that the barrier is Calumet age or older. Eolian sand in the uppermost mud is variable, and occasional bands of sand may relate to when the dunes lost their wooded cover -400 yr...

Geomorphological History of Massive Parabolic Dunes, Van Buren State Park,...

Michigan Academician;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......found an active and complex history. The basal buried soil in these dunes is developed on lake plain sediments and buried by eolian sand. Charcoal collected from this soil has a radiocarbon date of 5550 ([+ or -]150) cal. yr. B.P., indicating that dune growth...

REP. PEARCE BILL TO CREATE PRAIRIE CHICKEN HABITAT PRESERVATION AREA

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 30, 2008 ;     464 words ......Lizard. The preservation area established in this bill is some of the most important parcels of the Mescalero sands in New Mexico. Mescalero sands are comprised of sandy soils and dunes, with bluestem grasses and shinnery oak as the main vegetation...

Mid-America Pipeline builds respect on 400-mile loop. (Mid-America...

Pipeline & Gas Journal;  August 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......endangered species, and natural ecosystems was crucial in a project that crossed the Rio Grande, Rio Puerco and Pecos Rivers, Mescalero Sands and Las Huertas Creek. While history from Mid-America's 1980 line installation in the state provided some advantages, the...