But visitors to Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas can still get a sense of their historic importance.

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Then,within the last twenty million years, movements in the earth pushed the rock upward, forming the Guadalupe Mountains.

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Later,the water and most of the acid left the caves as the Guadalupe Mountains continued to rise.

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The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.

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