Page 6 - Vol. 1 Walks In The Black Range - 2nd Edition
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Where the grade begins to get more serious and a continual climb is in order you will pass through an old fence where there was once a gate.
There are “twin peaks”, which are close together, at the summit of Black Peak. The photograph above was taken from the more southwestern of the peaks. The photograph at the top of the next page was taken from just below the summit on the south side of the peak and looks to the south. The road to the peak is visible snaking up North Wicks Canyon.
George T. Harley, in The Geology and Ore Deposits of Sierra County, New Mexico describes the summit as “The top of Black Peak consists of basalt 75 feet thick, and on the flanks of the hills at points 1 mile and 1 1/2 miles to the west are two other smaller patches. Black Peak is believed to be the
source of the basalt flow in this region, as underground workings in the peak have encountered and passed completely around what appears to be the breccia filling in the throat of the old vent.” (p. 131)
