Tag: Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady (The Virgin) of Guadalupe I’m writing a book, Niños Héroes: The Fascinating Stores Behind Mexican Street Names. Here’s a short selection: She is “La Morenita,” the brown lady. According to Catholic lore, the Virgin Mary first appeared to a...

The Geology of the Guadalupe Tuff

The Guadalupe tuff formation is a thick sequence of well stratified andesitic tuff and tuffaceous sandstones, shales and agglomerates found in western and portion of the area at the edge of the Central Plain. The definition of the formation may be attributed to Warren D. Smith. At the time he was...