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| Northern Rio Grande Rift: The Sangre de Cristo range of Colorado and New Mexico flanks the southern San Luis valley, one of the broad valleys of the northern Rio Grande rift. The Rio Grande, the sinuous dark line roughly parallel to the mountain front, flows south- then southwestward (this view is to the NE). The southwesterly reach of the river follows the Embudo transverse fault zone, which separates the San Luis basin (north) from the Espaņola basin (south). Rift faults and the Embudo zone intersect in a complex structural knot around Taos, in the embayment in the mountain range. This excellent photo shows the subtle but distinct northeastward extension of the Embudo zone to the mouth of Rio Pueblo canyon at the range front. Buried faults of similar trend were located geophysically by astronaut candidate crews who assisted in a ground-water assessment of the Taos valley (summer, 1999). |
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