Highway 380 cuts through the Malpais Lava Flow, a 6 mile wide bed of black hardened lava formed 5,000 years ago in the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico

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Location: Carrizozo, New Mexico, United States of America
Photo credit: © Hugh Mitton / Alamy / Afripics
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