Geodiversity Atlas—New Mexico State Index

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Capulin Volcano, which erupted 54,200 years ago within the easternmost young volcanic field in North America, is one of the most scenic and most accessible cinder cones on the continent. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

El Malpais National Monument, the “badlands,” contains an especially rugged volcanic landscape of young basaltic lava flows, cinder cone volcanoes, and other volcanic landforms and features. It is located in the Zuni-Bandera Volcanic Field in New Mexico where the most recent eruption took place 3,900 years ago. The monument contains one of the longest lava tube systems in the world.

Inscription Rock in El Morro National Monument contains approximately 2,000 inscriptions, petroglyphs, and pictographs carved into the Zuni Sandstone at the base of El Morro. El Morro (“the headland”) was an important landmark for ancestral Puebloan people, Spanish explorers and settlers, and a variety of European American travelers.

Fort Union sits on the High Plains of northern New Mexico near where the plains meet the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Fort Union NM is situated within a landscape of great geological diversity that is also essential to the character of the historic site. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Pecos NHP is at in a geologic and cultural gateway between the Great Plains and the Rio Grande valley, where three physiographic provinces meet. The park’s cultural stories are closely tied to its geologic and geographic setting. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.