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Guadalupe Mountains National Park
This view of El Capitan is from along Texas Highway 62/180 where is crosses Guadalupe Canyon. The massive limestone of the Permian-age reef tract and the finer calcareous shale and mudrocks of the fore-reef system are well exposed on the flanks of El Capitan.
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