Carrizo Mountains

The Carrizo Mountains primarily consist of igneous rocks that intruded Permian through Cretaceous marine strata.

Intrusive forms include laccoliths, stocks, sills, and dikes.

31 to 20 million years ago, making them distinctly younger than the late Cretaceous intrusions of the Carrizo Mountains.

Both the Carrizo Mountains and Sleeping Ute Mountain are located along the southwest extension of the Colorado Mineral Belt, a 250-mile long lineament characterized by igneous rocks associated with abundant ore deposits.

Large ore deposits have not been found in the igneous rocks of the Carrizo Mountains, although small deposits of uranium, vanadium, copper and silver have been found in the sedimentary rocks of the Morrison Formation.

Carrizo Mountains (Arizona) and Chuska Mountains (Arizona and New Mexico), each with a little snow. Also, two features of the Navajo Volcanic Province: BP Buell Peak (Arizona), (at southeast perimeter Canyon de Chelly , on north Defiance Plateau ), and SR Ship Rock (New Mexico), (east of Red Rock Valley , colored red, and the Lukachukai Mountains , attached at north Chuskas).