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Shiprock and its dike on the Navajo Nation

Fig. 1Shiprock and its dike on the Navajo Nation

Photo: Bowie Snodgrass · CC BY 2.0

Landform

A volcanic plug and radiating dikes. Tsé Bitʼaʼí — rock with wings. From the plain the dikes read as a sail.

Field note

The plug is the throat of a volcano the land wore away. The dikes run like walls across the grassland. It is sacred ground. The rock is for looking at, not climbing.

A private leaf

Prints from Shiprock

Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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Onward

A day's country

The nearest plates, by the miles.

Volcanic chapter

More volcanic destinations

Other US volcanic plates. See all volcanic destinations in the USA

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On the chart

Vintage map of the United States