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McRae Group, the Glossary

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The McRae Group is a geological group exposed in southern New Mexico whose strata, including layers of the Hall Lake Formation and Jose Creek Formation, date to the Late Cretaceous.[1]

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  1. 45 relations: Alamosaurus, Alluvial fan, Ankylosauria, Araucarites, Breccia, Caballo Mountains, Canna (plant), Caswell Silver, Ceratopsia, Cinnamomum, Conglomerate (geology), Cub Mountain Formation, Elephant Butte Reservoir, Ficus, Fort McRae, Geinitzia (plant), Geological formation, Group (stratigraphy), Hall Lake Formation, Hogback (geology), Jornada del Muerto, Kirtland Formation, Lancian, Late Cretaceous, Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Love Ranch Formation, Maastrichtian, Mesaverde Group, Mudflow, New Mexico, Paleocene, Provenance (geology), Sabalites, Sandstone, Sauropoda, Sequoia (genus), Shale, Sierraceratops, Siltstone, Spencer G. Lucas, Triceratops, Tuff, Turtle, Tyrannosaurus, Willow.

  2. Cretaceous formations of New Mexico

Alamosaurus

Alamosaurus (meaning "Ojo Alamo lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs containing a single known species, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, from the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now southwestern North America. McRae Group and Alamosaurus are paleontology in New Mexico.

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Alluvial fan

An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment.

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Ankylosauria

Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the clade Ornithischia.

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Araucarites

Araucarites is an extinct genus of conifer, used to refer to female conifer cones that resemble those of the family Araucariaceae.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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Caballo Mountains

The Caballo Mountains, (Spanish: "horse") are a mountain range located in Sierra and Doña Ana Counties, New Mexico, United States.

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Canna (plant)

Canna or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Cannaceae, consisting of 10 species.

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Caswell Silver

Caswell Silver (June 25, 1916 – October 18, 1988) was an American geologist and entrepreneur who was President of Sundance Oil Company from 1960 to 1984.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Cinnamomum

Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Cub Mountain Formation

The Cub Mountain Formation is a geologic formation in southern New Mexico.

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Elephant Butte Reservoir

Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, north of Truth or Consequences.

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

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Fort McRae

Fort McRae was a Union Army post, established in 1863, then a U.S. Army post from 1866 and closed in 1876, in what is now Sierra County, New Mexico.

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Geinitzia (plant)

Geinitzia is an extinct genus of conifers, with an uncertain position within the group.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Group (stratigraphy)

In geology, a group is a lithostratigraphic unit consisting of a series of related formations that have been classified together to form a group.

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Hall Lake Formation

The Hall Lake Formation, formerly called the Hall Lake Member, is a geological formation in Sierra County, New Mexico preserving Lancian fauna, most notably dinosaurs. McRae Group and Hall Lake Formation are Cretaceous formations of New Mexico, paleontology in New Mexico, Sandstone formations of the United States and Shale formations of the United States.

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Hogback (geology)

In geology and geomorphology, a hogback or hog's back is a long, narrow ridge or a series of hills with a narrow crest and steep slopes of nearly equal inclination on both flanks.

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Jornada del Muerto

Jornada del Muerto was the name given by the Spanish conquistadors to the Jornada del Muerto desert basin, and the almost waterless trail across the Jornada beginning north of Las Cruces and ending south of Socorro, New Mexico.

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Kirtland Formation

The Kirtland Formation (originally the Kirtland Shale) is a sedimentary geological formation. McRae Group and Kirtland Formation are Conglomerate formations, Cretaceous formations of New Mexico, Fluvial deposits, Sandstone formations of the United States and Shale formations of the United States.

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Lancian

The Lancian was a North American faunal stage of the Late Cretaceous.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Love Ranch Formation

The Love Ranch Formation is a geologic formation in southern New Mexico.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem.

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Mesaverde Group

The Mesaverde Formation was first described by W.H.Holmes in 1877 during the Hayden Survey. McRae Group and Mesaverde Group are Cretaceous formations of New Mexico.

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Mudflow

A mudflow, also known as mudslide or mud flow, is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris and dirt that has become liquified by the addition of water.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

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Provenance (geology)

Provenance in geology, is the reconstruction of the origin of sediments.

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Sabalites

Sabalites is an extinct genus of palm.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Sequoia (genus)

Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Sierraceratops

Sierraceratops (meaning "Sierra horned face") is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous Hall Lake Formation of New Mexico, United States.

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Siltstone

Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt.

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Spencer G. Lucas

Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

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Triceratops

Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.

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Tuff

Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

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See also

Cretaceous formations of New Mexico

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McRae_Group

Also known as McRae Formation.