List of National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico | List National Natural Landmarks Mexico

From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico. There are 12 in total.

Name	Date	County	Description
Border Hills Structural Zone	01980-01-011980	Lincoln	A rare example of wrench faulting outside the Pacific Coast region.
Bitter Lake Group	01980-01-011980	Chaves	Saline artesian lakes that provide habitat for the only inland occurrence of a marine alga and two rare fish species.
Bueyeros Shortgrass Plains	01980-01-011980	Harding	An example of the blue grama-buffalograss prairie of the Great Plains.
Fort Stanton Cave	01980-01-011980	Lincoln	Cave containing distinctive examples of selenite needles, starbursts, and velvet flowstone.
Grants Lava Flow	01969-01-011969	Valencia	One of the best examples of recent extrusive volcanism.
Ghost Ranch	01975-01-011975	Rio Arriba	Fossil site where well-preserved Coelophysis skeletons were found.
Kilbourne Hole	01975-01-011975	Doña Ana	An example of an uncommon volcanic feature known as a maar.
Mathers Research Natural Area	01980-01-011980	Chaves	The best example of a shinnery oak-sand prairie community in the southern Great Plains.
Mescalero Sands South Dune	01982-01-011982	Chaves	The best example of an active sand dune system in the southern Great Plains.
Ship Rock	01975-01-011975	San Juan	An outstanding example of an exposed volcanic neck accompanied by radiating dikes.
Torgac Cave	01974-01-011974	Lincoln	Cave with distinctive branching stalactites and helictites, the type site of Torgac-type helictites.
Valles Caldera	01975-01-011975	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	One of the largest calderas in the world.

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