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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 rise of hot asthenosphere below New Mexico reversed the compression of the crust and put it into tension, resulting in the opening of the Rio Grande rift, [51] [52] beginning about 30 Mya, [53] and the development of Basin and Range geology across the southern part of the state.
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).
Wheeler Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of New Mexico. ... Sandia Mountains: 10,682 ft 3256 m: 4,108 ft ... List of mountain peaks of New Mexico.
This is a list of mountain ranges in the U.S. state of New Mexico, ... Sandia Mountains; ... Herbert E. "Guide to the New Mexico Mountains", University of New Mexico ...
"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 ...
"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