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18-459: [REDACTED] Look up raton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Raton or Ratón (Spanish for "mouse") may refer to: Places [ edit ] Raton Basin , a geologic structural basin in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico Raton, New Mexico , the county seat of Colfax County, New Mexico Raton Downtown Historic District ,

36-412: A fourteener , West Spanish Peak is the twelfth most topographically prominent peak in the state. West Spanish Peak is an erosional remnant of a predominantly quartz syenite igneous stock which formed 24.59 +/-0.13 million years ago. It is the focus of over 500 radiating dikes . The standard ascent route for West Spanish Peak starts at Cordova Pass , a high pass (11,248 ft; 3,428 m) to

54-624: A Registered Historic District in Raton, New Mexico Raton Pass , a mountain pass that is a National Historic Landmark Ráton, the Hungarian name for Ratin village Crasna, Sălaj , Romania Other uses [ edit ] Ratón (2001-2013), a Spanish fighting bull USS  Raton  (SS-270) , a submarine Raton , the French name of a character in Fontaine's fable The Monkey and

72-657: A well-preserved sequence of rocks spanning the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. For this reason, the Raton Basin has been studied for evidence of the iridium anomaly thought to be evidence for a large meteor impact at the end of the Cretaceous that is in turn thought to have caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event . The boundary is represented in the basin by a 1-cm thick tonstein clay layer in

90-413: Is a large shale buttress to the right that usually has a small pool of warm water at its foot. Once up on the main part of the top ridge, it's an easy hike to the actual summit. The top ridge tends to be 30–100 feet (9.1–30.5 metres) wide and is about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long before beginning a significant downward trend on the east side of the mountain. To the north and south are very steep descents. At

108-452: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Raton Basin The basin has long been a source of coal, and more recently of coalbed methane. It is known for its well-preserved exposures of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary), which has been intensively studied for evidence of meteorite impact. Although structurally a basin,

126-436: Is highly asymmetrical, the beds dipping more steeply on the west side than the east. The sedimentary rocks of the basin are extensively intruded by igneous plugs, dikes and sills of Eocene to Oligocene age. Two large granitic intrusives near the axis of the basin form East Spanish Peak and West Spanish Peak . Dikes of felsic to intermediate composition radiate outward from East and West Spanish Peaks, and on

144-944: Is the highest point in Las Animas County, Colorado. The Spanish Peaks are two large igneous stocks which form an eastern outlier of the Culebra Range , a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains . West Spanish Peak is the easternmost 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) mountain peak in the United States. Due to its position well east of the Culebra Range and on the edge of the eastern plains of Colorado, West Spanish Peak enjoys great local vertical relief in almost all directions. For example, it rises over 6,000 ft (1,800 m) in less than 6.5 miles (10.5 km) on both its north and south flanks. Though not

162-607: Is the higher of the two Spanish Peaks in the Rocky Mountains of North America . The prominent 13,631-foot (4,155 m) peak is located in the Spanish Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest , 9.1 miles (14.7 km) south ( bearing 175°) of the Town of La Veta , Colorado , United States , on the drainage divide between Huerfano and Las Animas counties . The summit of West Spanish Peak

180-467: The Raton Formation which has been found to contain anomalously high concentrations of iridium. The boundary clay layer is accessible to the public at Trinidad Lake State Park , among other places in the basin. Bituminous coal mines opened in the Raton Basin in 1873. Walsenburg, Colorado , Trinidad, Colorado and Raton, New Mexico became coal-mining towns. The coal deposits are in

198-598: The Cat See also [ edit ] El Ratón (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Raton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raton&oldid=1150322387 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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216-550: The Colorado side) and El Paso Corporation (on the New Mexico side). In 2007, the coalbed methane field of the Raton Basin produced 124 billion cubic feet of gas, making it the 17th largest source of natural gas in the United States. 37°00′N 105°00′W  /  37.0°N 105.0°W  / 37.0; -105.0 West Spanish Peak West Spanish Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit that

234-561: The Raton Basin forms a topographic high dissected by eastward-flowing streams such as the Purgatoire River . The basin forms the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, immediately east of the Sangre de Cristo Range . The sedimentary beds that form the basin are of Paleozoic , Mesozoic and Paleogene age. In the eastern part of the basin, the sedimentary section is capped by flows of basalt of Miocene age. The basin

252-719: The Vermejo Formation ( Cretaceous ) and overlying Raton Formation (Cretaceous and Paleocene ). Most of the mines were underground room-and-pillar, although in later years some mines in New Mexico used longwall mining. Some strip mining was done in New Mexico. Much of the mining on the Colorado side of the basin supplied the steel mills at Pueblo, Colorado . Production through 1975 was 326 million short tons (295 million tonnes). The New Elk coal mine, inactive since 1989 and now owned by Allegiance Coal of Australia, reopened in June 2021. A number of wells have been drilled over

270-595: The coal, as a safety measure to drain off gas ahead of mining. The first wells seeking to produce coalbed methane were drilled in the Raton Basin in 1982. Thousands of wells have successfully extracted coalbed methane from the Vermejo Formation and Raton Formation coals. The productive coalbed methane area now covers the central part of the basin, and straddles the Colorado - New Mexico state line. The two major producing companies are ExxonMobil (on

288-488: The north side of the peaks have the appearance of large stone walls. Dikes of mafic and ultramafic composition trend east-northeast to west-southwest across the basin. Ultrapotassic lamprophyre dikes can also be found along the basin flanks, which are highly unusual in the Rocky Mountain region. The site of the Raton Basin was a coastal plain at the end of Cretaceous and beginning of Paleogene time, and has

306-429: The west of the peak. It follows a trail for about 2 miles (3.2 km) to treeline. From there, there's a rough path on talus ( scree ) up the southwest ridge of the peak for an additional 1.5 miles (2.4 km). The trail is very braided and has a tendency to "go to the right" (which is into loose scree). If climbers stay to the left and close to the ridge, the climbing is much easier. At about 13,000 feet (4,000 m)

324-585: The years seeking conventional oil and natural gas, but none has been produced in economic quantities in the basin. In April 2008, Pioneer Natural Resources announced that it was developing natural gas reserves in the Cretaceous Pierre Shale on leaseholds in the Raton Basin. Coals in the Raton Basin were long known to be "gassy." During development of the Morely mine in the early part of the 20th century, two gas relief wells were drilled into

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