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Mount Taylor (Tsoodził, means "The Great Mountain") is a dormant stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico, northeast of the town of Grants.[1]

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  1. 95 relations: Acoma Pueblo, Albuquerque, New Mexico, America's Most Endangered Places, American black bear, Barn owl, Basalt, Basanite, Cabezon Peak, California, Cambridge University Press, Canvasback, Capulin Volcano National Monument, Cenozoic, Cibola County, New Mexico, Cibola National Forest, Colorado Plateau, Common merganser, Cougar, Cretaceous, Dark-eyed junco, Dinétah, Eastern whip-poor-will, El Malpais National Monument, Elk, Erosion, Extensional tectonics, Ferruginous hawk, Flight Safety Foundation, Ford Trimotor, Fractional crystallization (geology), Golden eagle, Grants, New Mexico, Great blue heron, Great horned owl, Hopi, House finch, Jemez Lineament, K–Ar dating, Kestrel, Laguna Pueblo, Lava dome, Los Angeles, Mafic, Meadow, Mesa, Mount St. Helens, Mule deer, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Navajo, New Mexico, ... Expand index (45 more) »

  2. Cibola National Forest
  3. Neogene geology of New Mexico
  4. Pleistocene United States
  5. Pliocene stratovolcanoes
  6. Quaternary New Mexico
  7. Volcanoes of New Mexico

Acoma Pueblo

Acoma Pueblo (Áakʼu) is a Native American pueblo approximately west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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America's Most Endangered Places

America's 11 Most Endangered Places or America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places is a list of places in the United States that the National Trust for Historic Preservation considers the most endangered.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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Barn owl

The barn owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds, living almost everywhere except for polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalayas, some Indonesian islands and some Pacific Islands.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Basanite

Basanite is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.

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Cabezon Peak

Cabezon Peak is a large volcanic plug that is a prominent feature in northwestern New Mexico. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and Cabezon Peak are Volcanoes of New Mexico and Volcanoes of the United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Canvasback

The canvasback (Aythya valisineria) is a species of diving duck, the largest found in North America.

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Capulin Volcano National Monument

Capulin Volcano National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in northeastern New Mexico that protects and interprets an extinct cinder cone volcano and is part of the Raton-Clayton volcanic field. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and Capulin Volcano National Monument are mountains of New Mexico, Volcanoes of New Mexico and Volcanoes of the United States.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.

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Cibola County, New Mexico

Cibola County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Cibola National Forest

The Cibola National Forest (pronounced SEE-bo-lah) is a 1,633,783 acre (6,611.7 km2) United States National Forest in New Mexico, US.

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Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.

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Common merganser

The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Dark-eyed junco

The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) is a species of junco, a group of small, grayish New World sparrows. The species is common across much of temperate North America and in summer it ranges far into the Arctic. It is a variable species, much like the related fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca), and its systematics are still not completely resolved.

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Dinétah

Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Diné or Navajo, an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and Dinétah are Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America.

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Eastern whip-poor-will

The eastern whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus; also called "whip-o-will", "whip o' will", etc.) is a medium-sized bird within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, from North America.

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El Malpais National Monument

El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States.

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Elk

The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Extensional tectonics

Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust or lithosphere.

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Ferruginous hawk

The ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) is a large bird of prey and belongs to the broad-winged buteo hawks.

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Flight Safety Foundation

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety.

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Ford Trimotor

The Ford Trimotor (also called the "Tri-Motor", and nicknamed the "Tin Goose") is an American three-engined transport aircraft.

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Fractional crystallization (geology)

Fractional crystallization, or crystal fractionation, is one of the most important geochemical and physical processes operating within crust and mantle of a rocky planetary body, such as the Earth.

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Golden eagle

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Grants, New Mexico

Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States.

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Great blue heron

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.

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Great horned owl

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas.

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Hopi

The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona.

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House finch

The House finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) is a North American bird in the finch family.

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Jemez Lineament

The Jemez Lineament is a chain of late Cenozoic volcanic fields, long, reaching from the Springerville and White Mountains volcanic fields in East-Central Arizona to the Raton-Clayton volcanic field in Northeastern New Mexico. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and Jemez Lineament are Volcanoes of New Mexico and Volcanoes of the United States.

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K–Ar dating

Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.

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Kestrel

The term kestrel (from crécerelle, derivative from crécelle, i.e. ratchet) is the common name given to several species of predatory birds from the falcon genus Falco.

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Laguna Pueblo

The Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico (Western Keres: Kawaika) is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people in west-central New Mexico, near the city of Albuquerque, in the United States.

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Lava dome

In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Mafic

A mafic mineral or rock is a silicate mineral or igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron.

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Meadow

A meadow is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants.

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Mesa

A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain.

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Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and Mount St. Helens are Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America, Sacred mountains of the Americas and Stratovolcanoes of the United States.

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Mule deer

The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule.

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National Trust for Historic Preservation

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States.

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The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Osprey

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Oxnard Field

Oxnard Field (also known at various times as Albuquerque Airport and Albuquerque Army Air Field) was the first airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Pinyon jay

The pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) is a species of jay, and is the only member of the genus Gymnorhinus.

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Plagioclase

Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.

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Plains of San Agustin

The Plains of San Agustin (sometimes listed as the Plains of San Augustin) is a region in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico in the San Agustin Basin, south of U.S. Highway 60.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Prairie falcon

The prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a medium-large sized falcon of western North America.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Proterozoic

The Proterozoic is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8Mya, the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale.

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Pueblo

Pueblo refers to the settlements and to the Native American tribes of the Pueblo peoples in the Southwestern United States, currently in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

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Red-tailed hawk

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies.

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Rhyolite

Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.

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Rio Grande rift

The Rio Grande rift is a north-trending continental rift zone.

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Rough-legged buzzard

The rough-legged buzzard (Europe) or rough-legged hawk (North America) (Buteo lagopus) is a medium-large bird of prey.

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San Francisco Peaks

The San Francisco Peaks (Navajo:, Sierra de San Francisco, Hopi: Nuva'tukya'ovi, Western Apache: Dził Tso, Keres: Tsii Bina, Southern Paiute: Nuvaxatuh, Havasupai-Hualapai: Hvehasahpatch/Huassapatch/Wik'hanbaja, Yavapai: Wi:mun Kwa, Zuni: Sunha K'hbchu Yalanne, Mojave: 'Amat 'Iikwe Nyava) are a volcanic mountain range in the San Francisco volcanic field in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff and a remnant of the former San Francisco Mountain. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and San Francisco Peaks are Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America, Sacred mountains of the Americas and Stratovolcanoes of the United States.

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San Mateo Mountains (Cibola County, New Mexico)

The San Mateo Mountains are a small mountain range in Cibola and McKinley counties of New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and San Mateo Mountains (Cibola County, New Mexico) are Cibola National Forest.

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San Mateo Mountains (Socorro County, New Mexico)

The San Mateo Mountains are a mountain range in Socorro County, in west-central New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and San Mateo Mountains (Socorro County, New Mexico) are Cibola National Forest.

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Sharp-shinned hawk

The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) or northern sharp-shinned hawk, commonly known as a sharpie, is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada, but with the species averaging larger than some Neotropical species, such as the tiny hawk.

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Spaniards in Mexico

Spanish Mexicans are citizens or residents of Mexico who identify as Spanish as a result of nationality or recent ancestry.

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Steller's jay

Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a bird native to western North America and the mountains of Central America, closely related to the blue jay (C. cristata) found in eastern North America.

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.

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Swallow

The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica.

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Swift (bird)

The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.

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TAS classification

TAS stands for Total Alkali Silica.

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Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.

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Trachyandesite

Trachyandesite is an extrusive igneous rock with a composition between trachyte and andesite.

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Trachybasalt

Trachybasalt is a volcanic rock with a composition between trachyte and basalt.

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Trachyte

Trachyte is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar.

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Transcontinental Air Transport

Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that merged in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what became TWA.

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Tuff

Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Valles Caldera

Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. Mount Taylor (New Mexico) and Valles Caldera are Volcanoes of New Mexico and Volcanoes of the United States.

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Vanadium

Vanadium is a chemical element; it has symbol V and atomic number 23.

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Warbling vireo

The warbling vireo (Vireo gilvus) is a small North American songbird.

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Western kingbird

The western kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) is a large tyrant flycatcher found throughout western environments of North America, as far south as Mexico.

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Western meadowlark

The western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) is a medium-sized icterid bird, about in length.

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White-faced ibis

The white-faced ibis (Plegadis chihi) is a wading bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae.

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White-throated swift

The white-throated swift (Aeronautes saxatalis) is a swift of the family Apodidae native to western North America, south to cordilleran western Honduras.

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Wild turkey

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes.

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Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850.

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Zuni people

The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.

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See also

Cibola National Forest

Neogene geology of New Mexico

Pleistocene United States

Pliocene stratovolcanoes

Quaternary New Mexico

Volcanoes of New Mexico

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Taylor_(New_Mexico)

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