Recent Publications

 

Hayden, J.M., Lawton, T.F., and Clark, D.L., 2005, Interim Geologic Map of the Champlin Peak quadrangle, Juab and Millard Counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report.

 

Lawton, T.F., Shipley, K.W., Aschoff, J.L., Giles, K.A., and Vega, F.J., 2005, Basinward transport of Chicxulub ejecta by tsunami-induced backflow, La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico, and its implications for distribution of impact-related deposits flanking the Gulf of Mexico: Geology, v. 33, p. 81-84.

 

Lawton, T.F., Vega, F.J., and Giles, K.A., 2005a, Basinward transport of Chicxulub ejecta by tsunami-induced backflow, La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico, and its implications for distribution of impact-related deposits flanking the Gulf of Mexico: Reply: Geology, v. 33, p. e87.

 

Lawton, T.F., Vega, F.J., and Giles, K.A., 2005b, Basinward transport of Chicxulub ejecta by tsunami-induced backflow, La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico, and its implications for distribution of impact-related deposits flanking the Gulf of Mexico: Reply: Geology, v. 33, p. e89.

 

Lucas, S.G., and Lawton, T.F., 2005, Upper Cretaceous marine strata in the Little Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 27, p. 63-69.

 

Shelley, D.C., and Lawton, T.F., 2005, Sequence stratigraphy of tidally influenced deposits in a salt-withdrawal minibasin:  Upper sandstone member of the Potrerillos Formation (Paleocene), La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 89, p. 1157-1179.

 

Villase–or, A.B., Gonz‡lez-Le—n, C.M., Lawton, T.F., and Aberhan, M., 2005, Upper Jurassic ammonites and bivalves from the Cucurpe Formation, Sonora (Mexico): Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geol—gicas, v. 22, p. 65-87.

 

Lawton, T.F., 2004, Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous strata of southwestern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua, Mexico, in Mack, G. H., and Giles, K. A., eds., The geology of New Mexico-A geologic history: Socorro, New Mexico Geological Society, p. 153-168.

 

Lawton, T.F., Gonz‡lez-Le—n, C.M., Lucas, S.G., and Scott, R.W., 2004, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the upper Aptian-lower Albian Mural Limestone (Bisbee Group) in northern Sonora, Mexico: Cretaceous Research, v. 25, p. 43-60.

 

Rowan, M.G., Lawton, T.F., Giles, K.A., and Ratliffe, R.A., 2003, Near-salt deformation in La Popa basin, Mexico, and the northern Gulf of Mexico: a general model for passive diapirism: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 87, p. 733-756.

 

Lawton, T.F., Pollock, S.L., and Robinson, R.A.J., 2003, Integrating sandstone petrology and nonmarine sequence stratigraphy: application to the Late Cretaceous fluvial systems of southwestern Utah, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 389-406.

 

Bayona, G., and Lawton, T.F., 2003, Fault-proximal stratigraphic record of episodic extension and oblique inversion, Bisbee basin, southwestern New Mexico, USA: Basin Research, v. 15, p. 251-270.

 

Dickinson, W.R., and Lawton, T.F., 2003, Sequential intercontinental suturing as the ultimate control for Pennsylvanian Ancestral Rocky Mountains deformation: Geology, v. 31, p. 609-612.

 

Giles, K.A., and Lawton, T.F., 2002, Halokinetic sequence stratigraphy adjacent to the El Papalote diapir, northeastern Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 86, p. 823-840.

 

Kues, B.S., Giles, K.A., Mack, G.H., and Lawton, T.F., 2002, A late Pennsylvanian outer shelf marine fauna from a highstand systems tract, Derry Hills, south-central New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 24, p. 121-130.

 

Dickinson, W.R., and Lawton, T.F., 2001, Carboniferous to Cretaceous assembly and fragmentation of Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1142-1160.

 

Dickinson, W.R., and Lawton, T.F., 2001, Tectonic setting and sandstone petrofacies of the Bisbee basin (USA-Mexico): Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 14, p. 475-504.

 

Lawton, T.F., Vega, F.J., Giles, K.A., and Rosales-Dominguez, C., 2001, Stratigraphy and origin of the La Popa basin, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, Mexico, in Bartolini, C., Buffler, R.T., and Cantœ-Chapa, A., eds., Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of the western Gulf of Mexico basin: Tectonics, sedimentary basins and petroleum systems: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 75, p. 219-240.

 

Lucas, S.G., Zeigler, K.E., Lawton, T.F., and Filkorn, H.F., 2001, Late Jurassic invertebrate fossils from the Little Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 23, p. 16-20.

 

Channell, R., McMillan, N.J., Lawton, T.F., Heizler, M., Esser, R.P., and McLemore, V.T., 2000, Magmatic history of the Little Hatchet Mountains, Hidalgo and Grant Counties, southwestern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 51, p. 141-148.

 

Lawton, T.F., 2000, Inversion of Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous extensional faults of the Bisbee basin, southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 51, p. 95-102.

 

Lawton, T.F., McMillan, N.J., McLemore, V.T., and Hawley, J.W., 2000, Second-day road log, from Lordsburg to Deming via Little Hatchet Mountains and Victorio Mountains: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 51, p. 17-30.

 

Lucas, S.G., and Lawton, T.F., 2000, Stratigraphy of the Bisbee Group (Jurassic-Cretaceous), Little Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 51, p. 175-194.

 

Weislogel, A.L., and Lawton, T.F., 2000, Facies assemblages and stratal geometries within the tidally-influenced deltaic system of the Maastrichtian Muerto Formation, La Popa basin, Mexico: an analogue for the Gulf of Mexico subsurface: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 50, p. 669-678.

 

Young, J.R., McMillan, N.J., Lawton, T.F., and Esser, R.P., 2000, Volcanology, geochemistry, and structural geology of the Upper Cretaceous Hidalgo Formation, southwestern New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 51, p. 149-157.