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The geologic history of the state began with its assembly during the Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies 1750 to 1650 million years ago (Mya). This was followed by 200 million years of tectonic quiescence that ended in the Picuris orogeny. This event transformed the New Mexico crust into mature continental crust.
From the White Place, painting by Georgia O'Keefe depicting the Abiquiu Formation. The Abiquiu Formation is a geologic formation found in northern New Mexico. Radiometric dating constrains its age to between 18 million and 27 million years, corresponding to the late Oligocene to Miocene epochs. [1]
Mount Taylor (Navajo: Tsoodził, Navajo pronunciation: [tsʰòːtsɪ̀ɬ] means "The Great Mountain" [3]) is a dormant stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico, northeast of the town of Grants. [4] It is the high point of the San Mateo Mountains [a] and the highest point in the Cibola National Forest. It was renamed in 1849 for then- president ...
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Named by. Hayden. Year defined. 1869. The Santa Fe Group is a group of geologic formations in New Mexico and Colorado. It contains fossils characteristic of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs. The group consists of basin -filling sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Rio Grande rift, and contains important regional ...
The Ocate volcanic field (also known as the Mora volcanic field) is a monogenetic volcanic field that extends from the southern Cimarron Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the vicinity of Wagon Mound, New Mexico. [2] The town of Wagon Mound is named after The Wagon Mound, a prominent landmark that is a highly eroded volcanic neck of the ...
Coordinates: 36°3′36″N 107°58′12″W. Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway. Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Trail of the Ancients is a New Mexico Scenic Byway to prehistoric archaeological and geological sites of northwestern New Mexico. It provides insight into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans and the Navajo, Ute, and ...
Town of La Madera, New Mexico. Named by. Charles Rollin Keyes. Year defined. 1903. Madera Group (New Mexico) Outcrops of Madera Group in New Mexico. The Madera Group is a group of geologic formations in northern New Mexico. Its fossil assemblage dates the formation to the middle to late Pennsylvanian period.
The Bandelier Tuff is a geologic formation exposed in and around the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. It has a radiometric age of 1.85 to 1.25 million years, corresponding to the Pleistocene epoch. The tuff was erupted in a series of at least three caldera eruptions in the central Jemez Mountains. The Bandelier Tuff was one of the first ...