List of National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico

From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico. There are 12 in total.

	Name	Image	Date	Location	County	Description
1	Border Hills Structural Zone		01980-01-011980		Lincoln	A rare example of wrench faulting outside the Pacific Coast region.
2	Bitter Lake Group		01980-01-011980		Chaves	Saline artesian lakes that provide habitat for the only inland occurrence of a marine alga and two rare fish species.
3	Bueyeros Shortgrass Plains		01980-01-011980		Harding	An example of the blue grama-buffalograss prairie of the Great Plains.
4	Fort Stanton Cave		01980-01-011980		Lincoln	Cave containing distinctive examples of selenite needles, starbursts, and velvet flowstone.
5	Grants Lava Flow		01969-01-011969		Valencia	One of the best examples of recent extrusive volcanism.
6	Ghost Ranch		01975-01-011975		Rio Arriba	Fossil site where well-preserved Coelophysis skeletons were found.
7	Kilbourne Hole		01975-01-011975		Doña Ana	An example of an uncommon volcanic feature known as a maar.
8	Mathers Research Natural Area		01980-01-011980		Chaves	The best example of a shinnery oak-sand prairie community in the southern Great Plains.
9	Mescalero Sands South Dune		01982-01-011982		Chaves	The best example of an active sand dune system in the southern Great Plains.
10	Ship Rock		01975-01-011975		San Juan	An outstanding example of an exposed volcanic neck accompanied by radiating dikes.
11	Torgac Cave		01974-01-011974		Lincoln	Cave with distinctive branching stalactites and helictites, the type site of Torgac-type helictites.
12	Valles Caldera		01975-01-011975		Rio Arriba, Sandoval	One of the largest calderas in the world.