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Bookmark or Share- Shiprock: The Majestic Pillar Defining the Four CornersShiprock (sometimes spelled as two words, Ship Rock) is the remnant of a magma plug that formed some 27 million years ago. The magma intruded under layers of sandstone and shale laid down as sediments in the ancient Western Interior Seaway but never erupted on the surface.
- Facts About Ship Rock, the Navajo's Sacred Peak - TripSavvyShip Rock is a dramatic 7,177-foot-high (2,188-meter) rock mountain located in northwestern New Mexico about 20 miles southwest of the town of Shiprock. The formation, a volcanic plug, rises above a barren desert plain south of the San Juan River.
- The Mysteries And Legends Of Shiprock, The Sacred Peak Of The Navajo ...Shiprock is composed of fractured volcanic breccia and black dikes of igneous rock called Minette, and it is the erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano, and the volcanic breccia formed in a diatreme.
- Shiprock, New Mexico - WikipediaShiprock (Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,718 people in the 2020 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Shiprock as a census-designated place (CDP).
- NM Geology Virtual Tour - Shiprock - New Mexico Bureau of Geology ...Ship Rock, known as Tse Bitai, or "the winged rock" in Navajo, is a volcanic neck, or the central feeder pipe of larger volcanic landform which has since eroded away. The neck is composed of fractured volcanic rock, or breccia, crosscut by many thin veins of lava.
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