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	Jornada del Muerto Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jornada del Muerto ("journey of the deadman" in Spanish) was the name given by the Spanish conquistadors to the 1660s route northward from New Spain, or Mexico.
		The bottom half of the image is the Tularosa Basin, and the forested Sacramento Mountains to the east, with the tallest peak, Sierra Blanca, a ski resort, at 12,000 feet altitude.
		Today the term 'Jornada del Muerto' is applied to the adjacent valley to the east of the Rio Grande valley, north of the Organ Mountains and the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, which is much drier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jornada_del_Muerto_Desert (510 words)

	Jornada del Muerto Complex — New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Jornada del Muerto basin is located along the original 'Journey of Death' of the Spanish settlers.
		In the middle of the complex is the Jornada del Muerto unit.
		However, the sheer vastness of the undeveloped Jornada del Muerto Valley is the biggest contribution to the scenic qualities of this landscape.
	www.nmwild.org /places/desert/jornada (1341 words)

	Hans Bethe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity site in the Jornada del Muerto Desert, southwestern United States, on 16 July 1945.
		When the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexico desert in July, 1945, Bethe's only immediate concern at the time was for its efficient working, and not for its moral implications.
		After the war, Bethe argued that a crash project for the hydrogen bomb should not be attempted, though after President Truman announced the beginning of such a crash project, and the outbreak of the Korean War, Bethe signed up and played a key role in the weapon's development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans_Bethe (1715 words)

	Trinity site - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The test site is at the northern end of the Range, between the towns of Carrizozo and Socorro, New Mexico in the Jornada del Muerto Desert in the southwestern United States.
		It left a crater in the desert 3 metres deep and 330 metres wide.
		In the crater the desert sand, which is largely made of silica, melted and became glass of a light green color; this was named trinitite.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Trinity_site (678 words)

	NMBGMR Geologic Map 35 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The northern half of the quadrangle is covered primarily by caliche and blow sand that form the surface of the Jornada del Muerto desert.
		A discussion of the Jornada del Muerto surface and its associated deposits was beyond the scope of this study, hence omitted from this report.
		Although large areas of the southern half of the quadrangle are also part of the Jornada del Muerto, entrenchment of the Rio Grande along the southwestern border has resulted in extensive exposures of older rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Holocene.
	geoinfo.nmt.edu /publications/maps/gm_series/35/home.html (183 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Organ Mountains
		Part of the Basin and Range Region of New Mexico, the Organ Mountains rise near Las Cruces in the southwestern part of the state.
		Desert basins, shallow areas with no outlets for streams, lie between the mountain ranges.
		One of the larger basins is the Jornada del Muerto.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461535977/Organ_Mountains.html (48 words)

	Trinity test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The test site is at the northern end of the range, between the towns of Carrizozo and Socorro, New Mexico, in the Jornada del Muerto Desert in the southwestern United States (33.675° N 106.475° W).
		The culmination of the Manhattan Project, the event was code-named "Trinity", using the device code-named "Gadget" (nicknamed "The Gadget" in part since it was not a deliverable weapon).
		In the crater the desert sand, which is largely made of silica, melted and became glass of a light green color and mildly radioactive; this was named trinitite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trinity_site (2359 words)

	Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information: Jornada Del Muerto — 90 miles of hell
		Jornada del Muerto signpost along Highway One between Elephant Butte and Socorro.
		Known from then on as Los Charcos del Perillo, the pools of the little dog, it became a paraje, or camping place, where caravans watered, preparing for the harsh trip ahead.
		The Jornada was in the middle of Apache territory, and the Indians were always a threat to the safety of the caravans.
	www.southernnewmexico.com /Articles/Southwest/JornadadelMuerto-90mileso.html (575 words)

	The Last Cheater's Waltz
		She describes the life of indigenous desert toads that spawn frantically there on the rare occasions when rains provide pools of water that will last two weeks or so.
		She recounts that on the July 1945 morning of the Trinity test, the toads of the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico awakened to just such a summer monsoon.
		They were in full voice, wildly singing and courting as the clouds cleared, the countdown concluded, and their amphibian view of the universe, together with 73 acres around them, was reduced to a sheet of radioactive jade green glass now known as trinitite.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/99/04/11/bib/990411.rv232228.html (237 words)

	Jornada Del Muerto And Geography
		Jornada del Muerto Wilderness Study Area New Mexico - Geography Home Browse by State Browse by Feature Definitions Top 10.
		Jornada del Muerto New Mexico - Geography Home Browse by State Browse by Feature Definitions Top 10.
		Excerpts: Southwest Desert Geography - The place called Trinity on the old Jornada del Muerto connecting El Paso to Santa Fe was, as Lansing Lamont wrote, "the perfect place to test...
	www.pda-reviewed.com /jornada-del-muerto-and-geography.html (624 words)

	Jornada del Muerto
		The Jornada del Muerto, a part of the Camino Real, was a hundred-mile shortcut across the desert (roughly between Las Cruces and San Marcial, located south of Socorro) which avoided the rough territory and steep canyons along the Rio Grande to the west.
		The Jornada del Muerto (as Larry McMurtry translates it, Dead Man's Walk) gets its name from the fate of one Bernardo Gruber, a trader at Quarai Pueblo in New Mexico, who was called El Aleman (the German) by his friends.
		But it was his death that would give this trail (and the desert it crossed) its grim name.
	www.trainweb.org /southwestshorts/jornada.html (615 words)

	Trinity site: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Trinity site
		The test site is at the northern end of the Missile Range, between the towns of Carrizozo and Socorro, New Mexico in the Jornada del Muerto desert[?].
		The shock wave was felt over 160 km away, and the mushroom cloud[?] reached 12,000 m.
		In the crater the silica of the desert melted and became glass of a light green colour, named trinitite.
	www.encyclopedian.com /tr/Trinity-site.html (387 words)

	Trinity Atomic Bomb - Chapter 1
		Besides the Jornada, three of the other seven sites were also located in New Mexico: the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, the lava beds (now the El Malpais National Monument) south of Grants, and an area southwest of Cuba and north of Thoreau.
		Hence the name Jornada del Muerto, which is often translated as the journey of death or as the route of the dead man.
		Desert sand around the tower had been fused by the intense heat of the blast into a jade colored glass.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/northamerican/TrinitySite-I/chap1.html (2492 words)

	Knowledge King - Jornada del Muerto desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The conquistadors were forced to retreat two hundred miles southward, along with a faithful few from Isleta Pueblo, to the south of the Rio Grande at El Paso del Norte, 'the Pass to the North', which is now the site of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A., and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
		Today the term 'Jornada del Muerto' is applied to the adjacent valley to the east of the Rio Grande valley, between the Organ Mountains and the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, which is much drier.
		It contains a large lava flow (the Malpais), near the site of the first atomic bomb detonation, code-named Trinity site, which is open to the public only twice a year.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/j/jo/jornada_del_muerto_desert.html (337 words)

	Albuquerque Tribune Online: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Desert research at the Nevada Test Site suggests that New Mexico's southern deserts will march north around Albuquerque over the next century and perhaps further up local mountain slopes.
		A leading local scientist commended the Nevada research and agrees with its conclusions and applications to New Mexico's Sevilleta and Jornada del Muerto deserts, south of Albuquerque.
		He said the research, in which he, two other university scientists and two scientists from the Desert Research Institute in Reno participated, has direct application to New Mexico's Sevilleta and Jornada del Muerto desert lands in the South Central Rio Grande Valley.
	abqtrib.com /archives/news00/110200_desert.shtml (508 words)

	Excerpts: Southwest Desert Technology
		The place called Trinity on the old Jornada del Muerto connecting El Paso to Santa Fe was, as Lansing Lamont wrote, "the perfect place to test the bomb." It was "isolated," "flat," "so uninhabitable that the nearest signs of civilization were a pair of abandoned coal mining towns, Troy and Carthage....
		Irrigationists were gamblers, staking their enterprise on the unlimited extendability of desert water sources and on the changing currents of national politics.
		It had to be fast given the short growing season in the desert, where erratic rainfall may cause rivers suddenly to rise only to be followed in a couple of months by soil that is bone-dry again.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /stc-link/weblink/water/xt/swd.t.html (3828 words)

	Jornada - Jornada del Muerto Complex — New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The HP Jornada is one of the first devices to use a StrongARM processor instead.
		The culturally rich Jornada Mogollon dissolved after environmental changes made their specialized agricultural economy ineffective.
		The Jornada del Muerto basin is located along the original 'Journey of Death' of the In the middle of the complex is the Jornada del Muerto unit.
	www.withphp.com /wihh/jornada.html (233 words)

	El Camino Real - Alacran Press
		Daylight fades and the médanos, or dunes, of Samalayuca south of Ciudad Juárez, are cast in a benevolent light.
		As difficult as the dry Jornadas were for travelers along El Camino Real, the Médanos de Samalayuca were perhaps the most formidable barrier they encountered in their journey.
		For ninety fearful miles of mostly forced night march, through parajes Perillo, Laguna del Muerto, and Tusas, to paraje Fra Cristobal, there was no reliable water, escape from the dusty winds or protection from hostile Indians.
	www.alacranpress.com (2352 words)

	Salon Wanderlust \| Ground zero
		Scaphiopus are explosive breeders: after rain forms ephemeral pools on the desert floor, they congregate in large, lovesick numbers for an intense period of reproductive activity that ends in oviposition, the release of eggs in free-standing water.
		This is wide-open Chihuahuan Desert, and this is also an enormous industrial complex of the keenest technical sophistication.
		Today on the Jornada del Muerto I will watch pronghorn antelope, falcons, and other icons of western wildlife, and later I will nearly be shish-kebabed by an out-of-place, spike-horned ungulate native to Africa's Kalahari.
	www.salon.com /wlust/pass/1999/02/24pass.html (1445 words)

	Trail Dust: Jornada del Muerto named for a German man persecuted for his beliefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The famed Jornada del Muerto, a 90-mile stretch of desert midway between Albuquerque and El Paso, Texas ranks as one of the bloodiest pieces of real estate in New Mexico.
		Today, the desert parajes where the Spaniards corralled their ox carts and wagons are clearly visible from the air.
		For a long while, careless writers were in the habit of translating Jornada del Muerto as Journey of Death.
	www.freenewmexican.com /news/3916.html (953 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Mount Dragon: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the eponymous research facility located deep in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico, young geneticist Guy Carson and his colleagues try to solve the problem, working in an atmosphere of increasing paranoia while the future of their employer, GeneDyne, rests on the actions of brilliant scientists driven by opposing motives.
		The bleak desert provides another fearsome challenge to the novel's characters, as well as a metaphor for humanity's previous attempts to control nature.
		Guy and Susana blow up the lab and head for the desert, and ensuing chases involving the pair with Nye and Levine with Scopes (much of the latter in Scopes' invented "cypherspace") are exciting and imaginative.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0312860420/reviews (689 words)

	The Range Head
		Everyone standing around in the desert that morning was wondering if we would even have something to watch.
		It rained that afternoon on the Jornada del Muerto.
		As a footnote, Columbia passed over the Jornada del Muerto desert (that's Spanish for "Journey of Death," so called because so many westbound immigrants died trying to cross it), and was only a few hundred miles east of it when it, too, rained spaceship on Texas and Louisiana.
	www.lunar.org /docs/LUNARclips/v10/v10n1/range_head.shtml (1075 words)

	Three Rivers, New Mexico, About Jornada Mogollon People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Jornada Mogollon people probably descended from nomadic peoples who inhabited south-central New Mexico from approximately 5000 B.C. By 900 A.D., the Jornada Mogollon had established villages around what is now Three Rivers, New Mexico.
		A severe drought at the end of the thirteenth century was probably the cause of the decline of the Jornada Mogollon culture.
		The petroglyphs are located on a ridge overlooking the Jornada del Muerto (Desert of Death).
	www.huntel.com /~artpike/3rivers7.htm (249 words)

	Jornada 548 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		''La Jornada'' is one of Mexico's leading daily newspapers.
		''La Jornada'' generally takes left-of-center stances, criticizing the Fox administration and some of the consequences of economic liberalization.
		The name doubtless was applied to the valley surrounding a major river, called Rio Bravo, now called the Rio Grande, in the U.S. 450pxthumbcenterThe top half of the image, which is oriented with the top to the northwest, is the Jornada del Muerto.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/48/jornada-548.html (404 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Media Gallery: Still Images: At Work in the Fields of the Bomb by Robert Del Tredici
		This photograph of the Minor Scale explosion was taken form inside the press bus 4 minutes after the blast.
		The Minor Scale detonation simulated blast and heat effects of a battlefield nuclear weapon chiefly to test Hardened Mobile Launchers for the new intercontinental Midgetman missile.
		All text and picture is © Copyright Robert del Tredici.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/media-gallery/image/tredici/34.htm (147 words)

	TRINITY TEST - JULY 16, 1945
		The first nuclear explosion in history took place in New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test named Trinity.
		This test was intended to prove the radical new implosion weapon design that had been developed at Los Alamos during the previous year.
		"In that brief instant in the remote New Mexico desert the tremendous effort of the brains and brawn of all these people came suddenly and startlingly to the fullest fruition.
	www.radiochemistry.org /history/nuke_tests/trinity/index.html (868 words)

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