Located just four miles west of Carrizozo, Valley of Fires is one of the youngest lava flows in the continental United States, the second youngest in New Mexico behind the McCartys flow in the El Malpais National Monument.
Volcanic vents on Little Black Peak starting oozing lava about 5,000 years ago, filling the northern end of the Tularosa Valley with streams of molten rock for about 30 years. The volcanic field is associated with the Rio Grande Rift, a part of the Earth’s crust that is being gradually pulled apart. This creates faults, which provide paths for magma to reach the Earth’s surface. Whereas most of the volcanic activity has been steady seepage, the last eruption, about 1,500-2,000 years ago, was more explosive.
In total, the Carrizozo Malpais lava flow is 4-6 miles wide, 44-miles long, and approximately 160-feet thick, covering 125 square miles of the Tularosa Basin. The view from the top of Sierra Blanca is outstanding on a clear day. Valley of Fires lava flows extend from the north end of the Tularosa Basin to 14 miles north of the gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park. Dark and light. The geologic contrast is striking enough, and large enough, to be seen from space.
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i’m so obsessed with you. let me marvel at you. allow me to just enjoy the thought of you, all of your could be’s and would be’s, let me lose myself in you for a little while longer before i turn you into a reality that will inevitably lose some of your potential — but let me keep that inside my mind anyway, knowing everything you could have been and appreciating you for what you are nonetheless. i’m obsessed with you. i love you.
— me thinking about any of my wips tbh
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I regret my choices for college sometime, but I really did the best with what I had. I couldn't afford to go to art school out of state. I couldn't even afford going to UT like I had wanted to (before Austin became bloated and unbearable). My college didn't offer illustration degrees, so I went with Drawing & Painting (even though that's really for studio art).
I ultimately don't regret going to school there, because I met two of my best friends there. But it is frustrating.
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…Latrodecta the Mithridate, of the Nightstingers.
well that’s a Tzeentchian Van Saar champion and gang name, with a banger color scheme baked right into the name.
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Starter call for nye specifically !
Anyone want an goth elf that knows very specific things about the dead ?
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Vegyn - The Path Less Travelled
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