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Shiprock ( Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,718 people in the 2020 census.
Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock") is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level.
May 17, 2022 · Ship Rock is a dramatic 7,177-foot-high (2,188-meter) rock mountain located in northwestern New Mexico about 20 miles southwest of the town of Shiprock. The formation, a volcanic plug, rises above a barren desert plain south of the San Juan River.
Shiprock is an iconic stone sentinel, rising 1583 feet above the stark plains of northwestern New Mexico. The National Park Service designated Shiprock as a National Natural Landmark in 1975. Visible from 50 miles away on a clear day, Shiprock is the throat of an ancient volcano, with a peak 7,178-feet above sea level.
Apr 11, 2024 · The Shiprock is a monadnock, an isolated rock hill that rises abruptly from a virtually flat surrounding. Shiprock is composed of fractured volcanic breccia and black dikes of igneous rock called Minette, or lamprophyre. It is the erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano.
Drive along U.S. Highway 491 in the Four Corners region of northwestern New Mexico, and you’re sure to see rising out of the vast, high-desert plain the iconic stone sentinel — Shiprock — that, perhaps more than anything, defines the Land of Enchantment.
Shiprock is an iconic landmark of northwestern New Mexico; a jagged, black, volcanic peak that rises 1,800 feet above the high desert plains of the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Shiprock, town, San Juan county, northwestern New Mexico, U.S. Lying on the vast Navajo reservation, the town, originally called Needles, was founded in 1903 as a centre of tribal government. It served as such until 1938, when the Navajo nation established its capital at Window Rock, Arizona.
Located just 15 miles southwest of the small town of Shiprock, New Mexico, the rock formation seems out of place, alone, and unchallenged among the landscape, making it the dominating feature of the land in all directions. What makes the Shiprock formation so unique is that it’s one of the best U.S. examples of what’s called a diatreme ...
Located 15 miles southwest of the town of Shiprock, New Mexico is a unique towering, bird-like volcanic rock formation that can be seen for miles in all directions. Shiprock, as this mighty sand-colored column was named by Anglo settlers, is known to the Navajo as “Tsé Bit’ a’í”, or rock with wings. The peak is 7,178 above sea level ...
