This National Park Service website offers information on: planning a visit to the park; natural resources such as the geology, wildlife, plants, and wildland fires of the park; cultural history including that of the Mescalero Apaches and the Buffalo Soldiers; and park management issues. A description of the Permian geology of the park includes the rock exposures (composed of reef, back-reef, fore-reef, and basin sediments) which form the ancient fossil reef known as the Capitan Reef of the ancient Delaware Sea.
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