For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research in geology (including environmental geology) and paleontology.

Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

Categories within this        Reference   |   New Mexico & the West: Geology   |   New Mexico & the West: Paleontology  |
Library Guide:                      General: Geology       |   General: Paleontology

See also Library Guide in this series on Sciences -- Environment and Ecology

Reference Books

Dinosaur Data Book (1991)
Geologic Time (1968)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy (1997)
Minerals of New Mexico (1996)

New Mexico and the West

Geology

And Farther on Was Gold in Twinning, New Mexico (1962)
Archaeological Geology (1985)
Bulletin. New Mexico School of Mines(Series call no: TN24 .N6 A232 no.__)
Clarence King: A Biography (1988)
Coalfields of New Mexico: Geology and Resources (1972)
Earthquakes in New Mexico, 1849-1977
Environmental Geology and Hydrology in New Mexico (1981)
Field conference guidebooks from New Mexico Geological Society
        Guidebook of East-Central New Mexico (23^rd, 1972)
        Guidebook of Rio Chama (11^th, 1960)
        Guidebook of Santa Fe County (30^th, 1979)
        Guidebook of South-central New Mexico (6^th, 1955)
        Guidebook of Southeastern New Mexico (5^th, 1954)
        Guidebook of Southeastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains (7^th, 1956)
        Guidebook of Southwestern New Mexico(4^th, 1953)
        Guidebook of Southwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado(8^th, 1957)
        Guidebook of Taos-Raton -Spanish Peak Country (17^th, 1966)
        Guidebook of the Black Mesa Basin, Northeastern Arizona (1958)
        Guidebook of the Rio Grande Country, Central New Mexico (3^rd, 1952)
        Guidebook of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado (1950)
        Rio Grande Rift (35^th, 1984)
Focus on Environmental Geology: A Collection of Case Histories and
    Readings from Original Sources (1976)
Geology of Southern New Mexico (1997)
Geochronology of Sandia Cave (1986)
Guide to the New Mexico Mountains (1972)
Guidebook to Rio Grande Rift in New Mexico and Colorado (NM
    Bureau of Mines …, 1978)
Guidebook of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado (1950)
Ice-age History of National Parks in the Rocky Mountains (1996)
Ice-age History of Southwest National Parks (1997)
Introduction to Environmental Archaeology (1978)
Minerals of New Mexico (1996)
"Natural History Goes High Tech," [New Mexico Museum of Natural History]
    New Mexico Magazine, 64:1 (January 1986)
New Mexico's Natural Resources: Data and Statistics for 1999
Navajo Country: A Geology and Natural History of the Four Corners Region (1995)
Rio Grande Rift: Tectonics and Magmatism (1979)
Roadside Geology of Arizona (1983)
Roadside Geology of Colorado (1980)
Roadside Geology of New Mexico (1987)
Roadside Geology of Texas (1991)
Rockhound's Guide to New Mexico (1995)
Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past
        Albuquerque (no. 9)
        Enchanted Circle: Loop Drives from Taos (no. 2)
        Espanola-Chama-Taos (no. 13)
        High Plains: Northeastern New Mexico (no. 7)
        Mosaic of New Mexico’s Scenery, Rocks, and History (no. 8)
       Roswell-Capitan-Ruidoso and Bottomless Lakes Park, N. M. (no. 3)
        Santa Fe (no. 1)
        Silver City—Santa Rita—Hurley, New Mexico (no. 5)
        Southern Zuni Mountains (no.4)
        Southwestern New Mexico (no. 10)
        Story of Mining in New Mexico (no. 12; 1975)
        Trail Guide to the Upper Pecos (no. 6)
Seismicity of the Rio Grande Rift in New Mexico
Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of t
    the Los Alamos National Laboratory (summary, 1999)
Subsurface Geology of East-Central New Mexico (1972)

Paleontology

Bibliography of New Mexico Paleontology (1981)
"Dino Trek into the Badlands," New Mexico Magazine, 77:11 (November 1999)
Dinosaurs of the Southwest (1976)
Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Arthur Lakes (1997)
Little Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch (1995)
Lone Star Dinosaurs (1995, Jacobs)
Dinosaur Tracks and other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States (1995)
Fossils of New Mexico (1982)

Geology

Earth (Frank Press, 1974)
[The] Earth (Edward J. Tarbuck, 4^th ed, 1993)
[The] Earth and its History (Flint, 1973)
[The] Restless Earth: A Report on the New Geology (1972)

USGS Series
        Mineral Resources … QE75 B9 (Bulletins)
        Geology of … QE75 P9 (Professional papers)

Paleontology

Field Guide to Prehistoric Life (1994)
Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution (1955)
Invertebrate Fossils (1952)
Paleontology and Paleoenvironments: Readings from American Scientist (1981)
Penguin Historical Atlas of the Dinosaurs (1996)