Geology of New Mexico
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The geology of New Mexico includes bedrock exposures of four physiographic provinces, with ages ranging from almost 1800 million years to nearly the present day. Here the Great Plains, southern Rocky
A view of the Nambe Badlands
Basins of the Rio Grande Rift
Sandia Crest, an uplifted Mesoproterozoic batholith
Pennsylvanian limestone of the La Pasada Formation in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
New Mexico
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New Mexico is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado,
Geology of New Mexico
…The geology of New Mexico includes bedrock exposures of four physiographic provinces, with ages ranging from almost 1800 million years (Ma) to nearly the present day. Here the…
"The indigenous people of northern New Mexico" by Balduin Möllhausen, 1861
A Hispano boy in Chamisal, 1940
A homesteader and his children at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range