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ENERGY-DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (EDXRF) ANALYSIS OF MAJOR OXIDE AND TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS FOR RHYOLITE AND DACITE PROJECTILE POINT FRAGMENTS FROM THE TULAROSA BASIN, SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO
Abstract
The non-destructive whole rock analysis here of three projectile point fragments from unknown provenience in the Tularosa Basin of southern New Mexico indicates that one of the artifacts was likely produced from the Socorro hydrothermally altered rhyolite, and one possibly from the Mount San Antonio dacite source in northern New Mexico, hundreds of kilometers north of the basin (see discussion).