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Shiprock is said to be either a medicine pouch or a bow carried by the "Goods of Value Mountain", a large mythic male figure comprising several mountain features throughout the region. The Chuska Mountains comprise the body, Chuska Peak is the head, the Carrizo Mountains are the legs, and Beautiful Mountain is the feet.
Cathedral Cliff is a 5,810-foot (1,770-meter) elevation volcanic plug located on Navajo Nation land in San Juan County of northwest New Mexico, United States. [3] It is a prominent landmark set alongside U.S. Route 491, approximately 13 miles south of the community of Shiprock, New Mexico.
Herb Conn, Ray Garner, and Lee Pedrick (left to right), are checking their equipment prior to the first ascent. Rock climbing is not currently allowed on Agathla Peak and surrounding Navajo Nation lands; [4] however, in 1949 there were no such restrictions, and the first known ascent of the peak was done on May 29, 1949, by Ray Garner, Herb Conn, and Lee Pedrick [5] [6] The climbers followed ...
A dike of lamprophyre near the Shiprock volcanic plug, New Mexico, that has resisted the erosion that removed some of the softer rock into which the dike was originally intruded. A magmatic dike is a sheet of igneous rock that cuts across older rock beds. It is formed when magma fills a fracture in the older beds and then cools and solidifies.
Intrusions have a wide variety of forms and compositions, illustrated by examples like the Palisades Sill of New York and New Jersey; [3] the Henry Mountains of Utah; [4] the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa; [5] Shiprock in New Mexico; [6] the Ardnamurchan intrusion in Scotland; [7] and the Sierra Nevada Batholith of California. [8]
Ford Butte is a 6,156-foot (1,876-meter) elevation summit located on Navajo Nation land in San Juan County of northwest New Mexico, United States. [4] It is a landmark set one mile east of U.S. Route 491, along with its nearest higher neighbor, Bennett Peak, on the opposite side of the highway.
Bisti Badlands Sphinx(?) in Bisti Badlands More strange shapes in the Bisti Badlands. The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
An aerial view of the Gros Piton and Petit Piton, in St. Lucia, 2006.. A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic neck or lava neck, is a volcanic object created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano.