City of Rocks State Park

USA / New Mexico / Hurley /
www.emnrd.state.nm.us/SPD/cityofrocksstatepark.html

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nice video on the NM stae parks web site. Look closely and you can see how the land outside the fenced perimeter is over-grazed.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Rocks_State_Park
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Coordinates:   32°35'26"N   107°58'31"W

Comments

  • Check this out! It really looks like a city with streets and houses.
  • Great park to visit, so strange that it appears that the rocks fell out of the sky and landed there. A must see place.
  • Did You Know? The City was created 34.9 million years ago by a volcanic eruption. Then over millions of years, erosion sculpted the rock formations seen today. The eruption was from the Emory caldera, centered near Hillsboro Peak at the southern end of the Black Range. The eruption was estimated to be a VEI 8.5 eruption, 34.9 million years ago. Also related to the erruption was the 314 mi Kneeling Nun Tuff.
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