Fig. 1Sandstone Bluffs over the El Malpais lava sea
Landform
A young black lava sea — Sandstone Bluffs looking over the flow, Lava Falls, and a malpais the arch plate does not own.
Field note
From Sandstone Bluffs the flow is a black ocean. Grants is the nearest town. This plate is El Malpais National Monument’s lava country, not La Ventana’s sandstone arch and not Valley of Fires at Carrizozo.
El Malpais is the lava sea: Sandstone Bluffs over a black flow, Lava Falls, young basalt. Grants is the town. This plate is the malpais, not La Ventana’s sandstone arch.
