The Animas Valley is linear, north–south trending, surrounded by mountain ranges, and is part of the Basin and Range Province of south-west North America. At the southern extremity of the valley straddling the United States and Mexico border lies the Pleistocene aged Lake Cloverdale[2] The extreme north has the Lordsburg Mesa located north-west of Lordsburg and is on the northern perimeter of the Animas Valley, south of the west-flowing Gila River and the towns of Virden and Red Rock.
The valley forms a topographically closed basin. At the southern end is the usually dry Lake Cloverdale, also known as Animas Flats, which extends slightly into Mexico.[3] Some groundwater may feed the Gila River.[4]
Referencesedit
^New Mexico Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c 2009, p. 52-53, 44-45.
^Allen, BD. (PDF). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 28: 107–114. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-03-31.
^Lake Cloverdale: An Ice Age Lake in New Mexico's Bootheel
^Keith M. O'Brien; William J. Stone (January 1983). "A TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYDROLOGIC MODEL OF THE ANIMAS VALLEY, HIDALGO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO (Open-File Report 133)" (PDF). New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources.
External linksedit
Media related to Animas Valley at Wikimedia Commons
Animas Valley Watershed, US EPA
Cloverdale, NM ghost town area
January 01, 1970
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