Geologic wonder - The Amola Ridge

On the east side of the Mora valley is this wondrous geologic upheaval known as the Amola Ridge. The first picture is the view from space. It's very prominent even from 12 miles up. I've annotated it. The second picture is taken from the road [Hwy 434] just south of Guadalupita [the red X on the satellite view].

There are two valleys between the road and the ridge. On the satellite picture I wrote the altitudes in light blue [taken from Delorme's Topo 5.0 program] - the areas, canyons etc are in white. The Coyote Creek flows at the bottom of the ridge in that small protected valley just to the west of the ridge. Altitude at the creek is 7401 ft. Up on the top of the ridge right above the altitude marker is 8295 ft. I can see that part of the ridge from my place 8 - 10 miles down the valley.