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Organ Mountains

Las Cruces / Mesilla: A Mecca for the Adventurous – by Jay Sharp

Unlike stratified neighboring mountain ranges, which had origins in ancient and placid seas, the Organs – purportedly named by the Spanish for their resemblance to the pipes of the great organs in the cathedrals of their home country – emerged from the molten interior of the earth in a complex sequence of violent magmatic eruptions, lava flows, structural warping and fracturing and relentless erosion.