Lava Columns

by bill macleod on January 14, 2009

I am continuing to revise my book on the Davis Mountains and will include this photograph of Sleeping Lion Formation lava columns above buildings of the old fort. The formation, a gray porphyritic rhyolite, is 200 feet thick here.

The building on the far left of the photograph is one of the older officer quarters. The two double-storey buildings and the roofless building at the left are junior officer quarters built just before the fort closed in 1891. The ruin to the right is of the post chapel.

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