Gila-San Francisco Coordinating Committee - Technical Subcommittee
Reference Literature - Gila-San Fransico Basins

Geomorphology

• Clemons, R. E., Christiansen, P. W., & James, H. L. (1980). Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past No. 10: Southwestern New Mexico. Socorro, NM: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources.

• Connell, Sean D., Hawley, John W., and Love, David W., 1970, Late Cenozoic drainage development in the southeastern basin and range of New Mexico, southeasternmost Arizona, and western Texas: In, Lucas, S.G., Morgan, G.S. and Zeigler, K.E., eds., 2005, New Mexico’s Ice Ages, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 28, p. 125-150.

• Huckleberry, G., 1994, Contrasting channel response to floods on the middle Gila River, Arizona: Geology, v. 22, p. 1083-1086.

• Huckleberry, G. (1996). Historical Geomorphology of the Gila River (Open-File Report 96-14). Tucson: Arizona Geological Survey. [note: probably covers only Arizona reach].

• Klawon, J.E. and Levish, D.R. 2003. Geomorphic response of the upper Gila River, Arizona and New Mexico, to levees, diversion dams, and floods. Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research. 16: pages 111-112.

• Mussetter Engineering, Inc., June 2006, Geomorphology of the Upper Gila River Within the State of New Mexico

• Natural Resources Conservation Service, Albuquerque, NM. (1998). A Fluvial Geomorphology Assessment of the Gila River From the Gila Box to the Bird Area. Albuquerque, NM: Natural Resource Conservation Service.

• Rich, J.L. 1911. Recent stream trenching in the semi-arid portion of Southwestern New Mexico, a result of the removal of vegetation cover: American Journal of Science (4th series). XXXII, v. 190, p. 237-245.

• Soles, E. S. (1999). A Study of Channel Form and Flow Regime on the Gila River. Carapace, Vol. 6, 4-6. Gila, NM: Upper Gila Watershed Association.

• Stailey, L. (2000). The Fort West Ditch. [unpublished chronology.]

• Trauger, F. D. (1972). Water Resources and General Geology of Grant County, New Mexico. (Hydrologic Report 2). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

• USDI Bureau of Reclamation, 2004 March. Upper Gila River Fluvial Geomorphology Study. [Report and maps covering Gila River corridor from gaging station at Gila, NM to Arizona-New Mexico state line; includes an extensive annotated bibliography.]