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Image Gallery

The photographs and figures shown on this page and on the banner of our website generally highlight interesting geological features in New Mexico. We also have several curated galleries including our Image of the Day, our pages highlighting New Mexico's Enchanting Landscapes, and snapshots from our Annual NM Mineral Symposium.

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Moonrise over the Fra Cristobal Mountains
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New Mexico Geochronology Research Laboratory
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Wild Rivers Recreation Area
Box Canyon Road Cut
Road Cut Exposure of Feeder Dike and Buttress Unconformity at Box Canyon
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Prickly pear bloom under double rainbow south of Socorro
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Mud cracks in an arroyo near San Ysidro
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Crossbedded sandstone on the Hoodoo Trail in the Ojito Wilderness
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Irrigated lands in San Acacia region
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Pumpjacks
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Hauling Potash From an Underground Mine
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View along the Santa Fe Fault
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Great Unconformity in the Manzano Mountains
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Cornudas Mountain sticking out of flat-lying Paleozoic limestones
Steamboat Butte
Steamboat Butte
Quebradas Chupadera Mine
Quebradas Chupadera Mine
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Socorro Peak on a quiet December morning
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Folded Paleozoic limestones in the Little San Pascual Mountains
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Fall in La Cienega
a stand of ocotillo plants with cloud-shrouded mountains in the background
Ocotillos in the Organ Mountains
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Folsom Falls