#bisti/de-na-zin

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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico

[themonkeycabal]

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

by muha04

[ancestorsalive]

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

[thorsenmark]

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

[aintquiteright]

Bisti Badlands, New Mexico, USA by muha0445

[existential-dad]

moonrise 🌝

[bizarepistachio]

This particular page has 3 different places being represented. Bisti/ De-na-zin wildlife area, White Sands, and Carlsbad Caverns.    Bisti was a very interesting place, challenged my navigating skills. Saw these really cool wind-weathered vaguely egg shaped stones of mid-thigh height. Some almost looked like stone boats. The rock formation I decided to draw though was a hoodoo that looked really cool.    The tree I drew at white sands was practically the only one I found with any significant height.    Carlsbad was a surprise as far as how much I enjoyed it. I liked being able to go at my own speed through the cave. When I went to Mammoth caves, you always have to have a guide and there’s just so many people along with.

Image ID: Traditional drawings done in pencil and some with watercolor. From the top: a flat hoodoo atop a skinny fin-like formation in a slight v shape (if viewed from above).    a tree with roots exposed and going fun directions, holding it above a pale sand. The canopy shading the viewer. Occasional grasses and bushes surrounding it.    A blue, gray, and black mess that looks vaguely like the entrance outside from inside a cavern.    A yellow and orange mess that looks like the deposits left behind from the dripping and flowing water inside caverns.    A dead cave swallow; it is laying on its side with wings folded, no visible decay.

[monsterhourpod]

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

[heavenlybackside]

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. 🇺🇸

[nmnomad]

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.

[salantami]

Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo "áshįįh łibá" meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)". The wilderness has multicolored badlands, sandstone hoodoos, petrified wood and dinosaur bones, similar to those found in the nearby Bisti Badlands and De-Na-Zin Wilderness.

[dopescissorscashwagon]

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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Bob Miller

Mammatus Monster - Bisti De-Na-Zin, New

Mexico

(single exposure)

[thorsenmark]

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, New Mexico, US [OC] [4023 x 3018]

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