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The Sandia Mountains are the most visited range in New Mexico. Numerous hiking trails exist on both sides of the range, such as the popular La Luz Trail and Crest Trail. Much of the west side of the range is included in the Sandia Mountain Wilderness; the trails on that side are steeper, and water is very scarce. Numerous picnic and recreation ...
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 Mountains , Colorado Plateau , and Basin and Range Provinces meet, giving the state great geologic diversity.
"The Pennsylvanian section at Priest Canyon, southern Manzano Mountains, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 67; Myers, Donald A. (1982). "Stratigraphic Summary of Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Rocks, Manzano Mountains, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 33: 233–237
Sandia Crest, also known locally as Sandia Peak or simply as the Crest, [2] is a mountain ridge that, at 10,679 feet (3,255 m), is the highpoint of the Sandia–Manzano Mountains, and is located in the Sandia Mountains of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. Instead of a true summit or topographic peak, this range climbs to a long ...
Sandia Mountain Wilderness, part of Cibola National Forest, is located east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and comprises much of Sandia Mountains. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1978 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of 37,877 acres (15,328 ha). [2] [1]
The Albuquerque Basin (or Middle Rio Grande Basin [1]) is a structural basin and ecoregion within the Rio Grande rift in central New Mexico. It contains the city of Albuquerque. Geologically, the Albuquerque Basin is a half-graben that slopes down towards the east to terminate on the Sandia and Manzano mountains. [2]
"Geology of Part of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir Series. 11. Myers, D.A. (1973). "The Upper Paleozoic Madera Group in the Manzano Mountains, New Mexico" (PDF). Contributions to Stratigraphy. Bulletin 1372-F; Sutherland, Patrick K.; Harlow, Francis H. (1967 ...
"Proterozoic magmatism and regional contact metamorphism in the Sandia-Manzano Mountains, New Mexico, USA" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 67: 169– 175; Kelley, V.C.; Northrop, S.A. (1975). "Geology of the Sandia Mountains and vicinity, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir. 29