Elephant Butte (Sierra County, New Mexico)
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Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico . It has an elevation of 4,639 feet (1,414 m) . [1] It was named for its shape, which is said to look like an elephant . [2]
Originally a tall butte along the east bank of the Rio Grande , Elephant Butte became an island in Elephant Butte Reservoir upon the completion of the Elephant Butte Dam . The recent lowering of the level of the reservoir has made it a peninsula . A nearly-complete 3-million-year-old stegomastodon fossil was discovered at Elephant Butte by campers on June 9, 2014. [3]
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elephant Butte
- ↑ Julyan, Robert Hixson (1 January 1996). The Place Names of New Mexico . UNM Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-8263-1689-9 .
- ↑ New Mexico bachelor party finds 3-million-year-old stegomastodon fossil, Fox News, June 13, 2014 from foxnews.com, accessed December 27, 2016
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