Section [05]
Basalt and Record
Hard rock, and the images cut into it.
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Entries
Three- Petroglyph National MonumentTens of thousands of images pecked into the desert varnish on basalt along the escarpment west of the river.
- The West Mesa escarpmentThe escarpment is the eroded edge of the basalt flows, and it is why the boulders are where they are.
- Pueblo stewardshipThe images and the ground belong to living Pueblo communities, and the management of the monument is shared accordingly.