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Float Trip! The Chama River, New Mexico

July 21 @ 8:00 am - July 23 @ 5:00 pm

  • « Float Trip! The Lower San Juan River
  • Field Trip: A Tour of Jurassic Lake T’oo’dichi: alkaline, saline wetlands of the Morrison formation in the Four Corners area »

Note: This trip is being run in association with the Fort Lewis on the Water (FLOW) program. Transportation from FLC and back, food, rafting gear, guides and some camping equipment are all included in the trip price.

Dates:  July 21st -23rd.

Leaders: Dr. Paul Bauer and another NMBGMR geologist

Price: $700

Limit: 13 participants

Registration opens:  April 20th at 5:30 p.m. online and at the FCGS meeting

Description:

The Chama River, in northwestern New Mexico, is a tributary of the Rio Grande, flowing south from headwaters in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado to Abiquiu, then east around the Jemez volcanics into the Rio Grande rift zone. This trip runs from below the El Vado dam through a designated Wild and Scenic River section to the Big Eddy take-out above Abiquiu Reservoir. The exposed geologic section on this stretch is entirely Mesozoic, cutting down from the Cretaceous, Dakota Sandstone to the Triassic, upper Chinle Formation as we travel south. This trip will be led by several geologists from the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), who published a new geologic river guidebook for the Chama in 2021. The guidebook can be found here: https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/publications/search/home.cfml?StartRow=1&index=geoinfo-pubs&Title=The+Rio+Chama&submit=+Find+Publications

For more information open this pdf: Chama float trip

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Details

Start:
July 21 @ 8:00 am
End:
July 23 @ 5:00 pm
  • « Float Trip! The Lower San Juan River
  • Field Trip: A Tour of Jurassic Lake T’oo’dichi: alkaline, saline wetlands of the Morrison formation in the Four Corners area »
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