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Image of the Day — Monocline at the edge of the Rio Grande Rift
Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2024
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Image taken:
09/15/2016
by: Adam Read
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2016
Longitude: -107.086758
Latitude: 34.779964
(WGS 84 or NAD 83)
About this image
This view to the North shows East-dipping beds of a monocline formed along the Comanche Fault. Just to the East is the Albuquerque Basin of the Rio Grande Rift while just to the west are flat-lying sediments of the Colorado Plateau.
Location
Carrizo Arroyo is on State Land, but road access is difficult through private land.
Image posted: 12-17-2021