Collective name of mesas in New Mexico and Colorado
Raton Mesa (Mesa de Maya)
Location
Las Animas County, Colorado, United States
U.S. National Natural Landmark
Designated
1967
Raton Mesa is the collective name of several mesas on the eastern side of Raton Pass in New Mexico and Colorado. The name Raton Mesa or Mesas has sometimes been applied to all the mesas that extend east for 90 miles (140 km) along the Colorado-New Mexico border from Raton, New Mexico and Trinidad, Colorado to the Oklahoma panhandle. These include Johnson Mesa, Mesa de Maya, and Black Mesa.[1]
The highest point of Raton Mesa, Fishers Peak, is located in Las Animas County, Colorado. The highest part of the mesa (4,183-acre (16.93 km2)) was made a National Natural Landmark in 1967. Raton mesas are volcanic in origin caused by lava flows which solidified into basalt. Over time the softer sedimentary rock surrounding the basalt eroded leaving several distinct large elevated tablelands with precipitous sides.[2]
Raton Mesa is part of the Raton Basin, a coal and natural gas producing region.
^Keyes, Charles R. (1919), The Hanging Gardens of the Mesa de Maya, The Geographic Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 145-152. Downloaded from JSTOR.
^Lee, Willis T. "The Raton Mesas of New Mexico and Colorado" Geographic Review, Vol 11, No 3 (July 1921), pp. 384-397
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