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Strike Valley
NM, USA
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Between Sapello and Mora, State Road 3 follows a narrow strike valley eroded into soft shale between ridges of resistant sandstone called hogbacks, the result of uplift of the Rocky Mountains. The Great Plains and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rise to elevations exceeding 13,000 feet.



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