
Mountains surround you. To your left is Dagger Mountain; to your right, the Rosillos Mountains stand 5,445 feet above sea level. On the distant horizon loom the Chisos Mountains lying in the heart of Big Bend National Park. The Rosillos Mountains formed as underground magma (molten rock) pushed upward but never reached the surface. The molten material bulged into a mushroom shape, coming to rest on top of older rock layers and doming the others above it. The roan-colored (rosillos in Spanish) mountains you see are composed of this igneous rock which cooled and lay far below the surface. Over time, erosion has chiseled away the overlying rock, exposing the once molten mass.
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Itineraries across USA

Acadia

Arches National Park

Badlands

Big Bend

Biscayne

Black Canyon Of The Gunnison

Bryce Canyon

Canyonlands

Capitol Reef

Carlsbad Caverns

Channel Islands

Congaree

Crater Lake

Cuyahoga Valley

Death Valley

Dry Tortugas

Everglades

Gateway Arch

Glacier

Grand Canyon

Grand Teton

Great Basin

Great Smoky Mountains

Guadalupe Mountains

Haleakalā

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes

Hot Springs

Indiana Dunes

Isle Royale

Joshua Tree

Kenai Fjords

Kobuk Valley

Lassen Volcanic

Mammoth Cave

Mesa Verde

Mount Rainier

North Cascades

Olympic

Petrified Forest

Pinnacles

Rocky Mountain

Saguaro

Shenandoah

Theodore Roosevelt

Virgin Islands

Voyageurs

White Sands

Wind Cave

Yellowstone

Yosemite

Zion