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My metamorphic/igneous trip to Socorro, New Mexico.


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All the beauty you see against the blue sky is a story of time from the book of rocks, uplifting, cleaving, and eroding in wonderful ways.

 

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I searched and got this Socorro County geologic map. A rather immense amount of study involved in this document. Best at 175% zoom.

If I lived there all the time I might come to understand it. :headscratch:

 

 https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/publications/openfile/downloads/200-299/238/ofr_238.pdf

 

 

 

 

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The rocks here are absolute eye candy. I'm trying to learn the different kinds. This reminds me of cone-in-cone except they're square.

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I don't know what this is called., but I'm pretty sure it's metamorphic as well.

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Nice report- gotta love the desert, I love it when I go on backpacking trips in the hot desert, nothing better.

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Gnarly dead millipede was over 3".

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Exquisite plant life.5bcbd561c1e3d_1_30MB.thumb.jpg.a89484b26619b492dc3a1dd523e89237.jpg

 

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Louisiana broomrape, a parasitic plant that doesn't grow in Louisiana:ighappy:5bcbd57c8ea00_913KBlouisianabroomrapeparasiticplant.thumb.jpg.a12669e4f470a3ea854a8c210a4f310a.jpg

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Great report!  Doesnt get much better than New Mexico :)

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Nice photos! How do you get the sky so blue? With my camera, either the sky is nice and blue but the land is underexposed, or the land is nicely exposed but the sky is washed out. Seems to be a fine line...

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Thanks @Walt and @Wrangellian

 

It takes some work to get it right between the land and sky but NM panoramas are too beautiful already.

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Found some interesting crystals. Maybe someone knows them.

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Wonderful landscape and rock pictures!

I have a great fondness for that area. Did You get around Magdalina area?

The crystalline piece looks like selenite or calcite. Check hardness, and cleavage.

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Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection

My favorite thread on TFF.

 

 

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18 minutes ago, Innocentx said:

NM panoramas are too beautiful already

Most of the western states offer equally spectacular landscapes :)

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Such beautiful country ...:wub:...I can never get enough!  The broomrape and antelope are fantastic finds!

 

I've got to get out and see some petroglyphs...thank you for inspiration. :)

 

Lovely report.

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"I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"  ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) 

 

New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins    

 

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12 hours ago, ynot said:

Did You get around Magdalina area?

Yes we did. Up in the valley on HWY 60. The short grass in these high valleys is such an interesting thing to come across and reminded me of these same type places I've been to in Colorado. One ranch in particular stuck out as the owner had obviously taken great care of his place. The grass actually had some size to it where as most others were over grazed. That's where we saw the antelope. We took a map that showed which parts were privately owned and which were BLM (public lands), so we didn't get in trouble trespassing.

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Great thread. Enjoyed seeing the rocks and flora and fauna. I miss the desert when it aint a billion degrees outside...pretty easy to see alot of the geology sometimes!

 

Regards, Chris 

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