#bisti de-na-zin wilderness

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Rock formations called “hoodoos” fill the Bisti De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northern New Mexico. The desert area is rich with fossils from dinosaurs and animals that lived here in ancient times.

PHOTOGRAPH BY EFRAIN PADRO, ALAMY STOCK

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Bisti Badlands, De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico

by muha04

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The Bisti Badlands, New Mexico...

These surreal rock formations are some of New Mexico's greatest treasures. The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Sediments that created them were deposited 75 million years ago, as the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. Then, millions of years of erosion formed these residual formations. Once covered in swamps and deltas of the Western Interior Seaway, the area was filled with sediments and organic materials in prehistoric times. This particular image shows a formation called the "cracked eggs", which are the result of differential erosion between hard and soft sediments.

Credit: John Fowler via Flickr https://buff.ly/3PdivAn

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I’m Letting the Bisti Memories Start Here by Mark Stevens

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moonrise 🌝

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Wondering about Quinn's inspiration for the Moonscape in Firmament, Colorado? Look no further than the Bisti Badlands!

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Wings of Stone

These uniquely winged hoodoos can be found in the Biste/De-Na-Zin wilderness (also commonly referred to as the Bisti Badlands) in New Mexico. 🇺🇸

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The Lybrook Badlands are part of the San Juan Basin. The basin encompasses numerous fascinating badlands and hoodoo areas, such as Burnham Badlands, the Fossil Forest, the Bisti/De-Na-Zin, Ojito & Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah wilderness areas, as well as several other smaller areas.

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The geological diversity of the badlands in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is astounding.

New Mexico

By Jason Coward

📆 Mar 30, 2024

📷 1/1000 s at f/14, ISO 640, 400mm

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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico

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Bisticeratops froeseorum Dalman et al., 2022 (new genus and species)

(Type skull of Bisticeratops froeseorum, from Dalman et al., 2022)

Meaning of name: Bisticeratops = Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area horned face [in Greek]; froeseorum = for Edgar Froese [the late founder of the band Tangerine Dream] and Jerome Froese [former member of Tangerine Dream and founder of the band Loom]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Campanian), about 74 million years ago

Where found: Kirtland Formation, New Mexico, U.S.A.

How much is known: Nearly complete skull of one individual.

Notes: Bisticeratops was a chasmosaurine ceratopsian, making it a fairly close relative of Triceratops. The holotype skull of Bisticeratops was originally considered a specimen of Pentaceratops, another chasmosaurine from the Campanian of New Mexico. However, a new study identifies several distinguishing features that suggest it is a separate species. In addition, Bisticeratops is approximately 2 million years younger than Pentaceratops proper. Along with several other recently named ceratopsians, such as Sierraceratops, Navajoceratops, and Terminocavus, Bisticeratops shows that chasmosaurine diversity was very high in the Campanian of southwestern North America.

The Bisticeratops type specimen is also noteworthy in that it preserves multiple bite marks that were likely made by tyrannosaurids. One of these bite marks shows signs of healing, indicating that this individual had survived at least one attack from a predator.

Reference: Dalman, S.G., S.E. Jasinski, and S.G. Lucas. 2022. A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Farmington Member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 90: 127–153.

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Bisti/ De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico, USA

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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico, US [OC] [4023 x 3018]

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Heading off to Explore the Bisti Badlands by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views to the badlands area where I’d be hiking and exploring in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area.

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Bisti / De-Na-Zin wilderness area, New Mexico

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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico