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Capitan Reef in Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The Capitan Formation is a geologic formation found in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico.It is a fossilized reef dating to the Guadalupian Age of the Permian period.
Exposed and buried parts of Capitan Reef. Blue area shows area once flooded by the Delaware Sea. The Delaware Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico, famous for holding large oil fields and for a fossilized reef exposed at the surface.
The Guadalupe Mountains (Spanish: Sierra de Guadalupe) are a mountain range located in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.The range includes the highest summit in Texas, Guadalupe Peak, 8,751 ft (2,667 m), and the "signature peak" of West Texas, El Capitan, both of which are located within Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
1.1 Capitan Reef. 1.2 Speleogenesis. 2 Climate. 3 History. Toggle History subsection. ... New Mexico, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1935–present Month Jan Feb Mar Apr
El Capitan (Spanish: El Capitán) is a peak in Culberson County, Texas, located within Guadalupe Mountains National Park. [2] The 10th-highest peak in Texas at 8,085 ft (2,464 m), El Capitan is part of the Guadalupe Mountains, an exposed portion of a Permian period reef uplifted and exposed by tectonic activity during the late Cretaceous period. [3]
The Capitan Reef also found a stable foundation on the reef debris and talus that rested on its slopes, and this foundation allowed the reef to grow outward. In some locations, nutrients and minerals were so abundant that the Capitan Reef grew out almost 50 km from the starting point. [24]
A 25-year-old Capitan man died from an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound, New Mexico State Police said, after fleeing from law enforcement in a stolen vehicle.
The park covers 86,367 acres (134.9 sq mi; 349.5 km 2) [1] in the same mountain range as Carlsbad Caverns National Park, about 25 miles (40 km) to the north in New Mexico. The Guadalupe Peak Trail winds through pinyon pine and Douglas-fir forests as it ascends over 3,000 feet (910 m) to the summit of Guadalupe Peak , with views of El Capitan ...