El Malpais National Monument
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El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. The name El Malpais is from the Spanish term Malpaís, meaning badlands, due to the
Pahoehoe lava flow in El Malpais National Monument
View of El Malpais Lava Fields and sandstone bluff
Looking out of Giant Ice Cave in the Big Tube area
El Malpais National Conservation Area: La Ventana Natural Arch
Mount Taylor (New Mexico)
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Mount Taylor is a dormant stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico, northeast of the town of Grants. It is the high point of the San Mateo Mountains and the highest point in the Cibola National Forest.
El Malpais National Monument
…Flows) filled a large basin, created by normal faulting associated with the Rio Grande Rift, between the high mesas of the Acoma Pueblo to the east, Mt. Taylor to the north, and the Zuni Mountain anticline to the northwest. Vents associated with these flows include Bandera Crater, El Calderon, and several other…
Mount Taylor NM
Mount Taylor, seen from the South
A view of Mount Taylor to the north from the west end of the Sky City of Acoma Pueblo.
A southwest view of Mount Taylor, as seen from the village of Encinal, NM.