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Enchanted Mesa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Enchanted Mesa sandstone butte, 430 ft (131 m) high, central N.Mex., near the pueblo of Acoma; called Mesa Encantada in Spanish and Katzimo or Kadzima by the Native Americans. According to Acoma tribal tradition, the mesa was the home of their people until a severe storm destroyed the only approach. Author not available, ENCHANTED MESA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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...upper cliff breaks along cracks and eventually produces a mesa. A butte is the last stage of the sequence, before the feature...consumption by erosion. The strata, or layers of rock, in a mesa are horizontal, or nearly so. The many table mountains are mesas. Two celebrated mesas are the Mesa Verde in ... Read more

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	TWO ENCHANTED ARTISTS ; Show at O'Keeffe Museum celebrates modernist masters' love of New Mexico ; ...Keeffe used color to suggest the intensity and variety of the shades and hues surrounding her in the cliffs and hills at Ghost Ranch. In paintings such as "Purple Hills Ghost Ranch-2/ Purple Hills No. II" (1934) or "Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexi Read more
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