Description
The landscape of New Mexico began 1.7 billion years ago and still has amazingly visible examples of the results of those processes, including the Rio Grande Rift. This is the story of the building of New Mexico, presented in terms readily comprehensible to a non-technical audience. Places where you can go to see this geology are included in this lecture.
Joan Karrie has a bachelor’s degree and graduate-level classes in geology. She is a member of the New Mexico Geological Society and the Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club. Despite having a career in computers, she has never lost her enthusiasm for geological processes and landscapes and talking about them. Now that she lives here, where the geology is visible, she has the perfect setting to indulge herself.