By: magic-gigapans
Image: Joshua Villalobos, El Paso Community College
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 6 May 2020
Last Updated: 22 May 2020

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The Organ Mountains are a partially exposed caldera of middle Tertiary age and are composed largely of multiple quartz monzonite intrusions. The pinnacles that composed the region known as The Needles are interpreted to be derived from extensional fractures related to the Rio Grande Rift.