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[]: 1
[Name]: Border Hills Structural Zone
[Image]:
[Date]: 1980
[Location]: 33°22′02″N 104°56′54″W / 33.367226°N 104.948359°W / 33.367226; -104.948359 (Border Hills Structural Zone)
[County]: Lincoln
[Ownership]: federal (Bureau of Land Management)
[Description]: A rare example of wrench faulting outside the Pacific Coast region. -
[]: 2
[Name]: Bitter Lake Group
[Image]:
[Date]: 1980
[Location]: 33°27′22″N 104°24′06″W / 33.456047°N 104.401621°W / 33.456047; -104.401621 (Bitter Lake Group)
[County]: Chaves
[Ownership]: federal (Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge)
[Description]: Saline artesian lakes that provide habitat for the only inland occurrence of a marine alga and two rare fish species. -
[]: 3
[Name]: Bueyeros Shortgrass Plains
[Image]:
[Date]: 1980
[Location]:
[County]: Harding
[Ownership]: private
[Description]: An example of the blue grama-buffalograss prairie of the Great Plains. -
[]: 4
[Name]: Fort Stanton Cave
[Image]:
[Date]: 1980
[Location]: 33°29′57″N 105°31′26″W / 33.499099°N 105.523798°W / 33.499099; -105.523798 (Fort Stanton Cave)
[County]: Lincoln
[Ownership]: federal (Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area)
[Description]: Cave containing distinctive examples of selenite needles, starbursts, and velvet flowstone. -
[]: 5
[Name]: Grants Lava Flow
[Image]:
[Date]: 1969
[Location]: 34°53′19″N 107°59′36″W / 34.888718°N 107.993472°W / 34.888718; -107.993472 (Grants Lava Flow)
[County]: Valencia
[Ownership]: federal (El Malpais National Conservation Area) & native (Acoma Pueblo)
[Description]: One of the best examples of recent extrusive volcanism. -
[]: 6
[Name]: Ghost Ranch
[Image]:
[Date]: 1975
[Location]: 36°19′47″N 106°28′26″W / 36.329789°N 106.474°W / 36.329789; -106.474 (Ghost Ranch)
[County]: Rio Arriba
[Ownership]: private
[Description]: Fossil site where well-preserved Coelophysis skeletons were found. -
[]: 7
[Name]: Kilbourne Hole
[Image]:
[Date]: 1975
[Location]: 31°58′19″N 106°57′53″W / 31.971944°N 106.964722°W / 31.971944; -106.964722 (Kilbourne Hole)
[County]: Doña Ana
[Ownership]: federal (Bureau of Land Management)
[Description]: An example of an uncommon volcanic feature known as a maar. -
[]: 8
[Name]: Mathers Research Natural Area
[Image]:
[Date]: 1980
[Location]:
[County]: Chaves
[Ownership]: federal (Bureau of Land Management)
[Description]: The best example of a shinnery oak-sand prairie community in the southern Great Plains. -
[]: 9
[Name]: Mescalero Sands South Dune
[Image]:
[Date]: 1982
[Location]: 33°24′58″N 103°52′11″W / 33.416122°N 103.869842°W / 33.416122; -103.869842 (Mescalero Sands South Dune)
[County]: Chaves
[Ownership]: federal (Bureau of Land Management)
[Description]: The best example of an active sand dune system in the southern Great Plains. -
[]: 10
[Name]: Ship Rock
[Image]:
[Date]: 1975
[Location]: 36°41′15″N 108°50′11″W / 36.6875°N 108.836389°W / 36.6875; -108.836389 (Shiprock)
[County]: San Juan
[Ownership]: native (Navajo Nation)
[Description]: An outstanding example of an exposed volcanic neck accompanied by radiating dikes. -
[]: 11
[Name]: Torgac Cave
[Image]:
[Date]: 1974
[Location]:
[County]: Lincoln
[Ownership]: federal (Bureau of Land Management)
[Description]: Cave with distinctive branching stalactites and helictites, the type site of Torgac-type helictites. -
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[Name]: Valles Caldera
[Image]:
[Date]: 1975
[Location]: 35°54′00″N 106°32′00″W / 35.9°N 106.533333°W / 35.9; -106.533333 (Valles Caldera)
[County]: Rio Arriba, Sandoval
[Ownership]: federal (Valles Caldera National Preserve)
[Description]: One of the largest calderas in the world.
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