Rockprincess
November 8th, 2004, 07:04 PM
Here I am with a big "Hey Y'all!" from Texas! :lol:
I learned soooo much this past month - but I don't know how much of it will interest you guys. I'll just write it out as I have time, and you can answer or not, as you like :)
The first thing we did after arriving in Houston was to drive west for 4 hours out to the company ranch. It started out flat flat flat, and eventually got into the hill country. What we were doing was driving from the coastal plain into the fault zone. If we'd kept going west, we'd have climbed up and onto the high, flat plateau of West Texas.
Basically like this, except in Texas the hills are right at the fault, and the high plain behind is flat:
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/deform/normalfault.gif
I have to run, but I promise I'll be back to finish the story.
I learned soooo much this past month - but I don't know how much of it will interest you guys. I'll just write it out as I have time, and you can answer or not, as you like :)
The first thing we did after arriving in Houston was to drive west for 4 hours out to the company ranch. It started out flat flat flat, and eventually got into the hill country. What we were doing was driving from the coastal plain into the fault zone. If we'd kept going west, we'd have climbed up and onto the high, flat plateau of West Texas.
Basically like this, except in Texas the hills are right at the fault, and the high plain behind is flat:
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/deform/normalfault.gif
I have to run, but I promise I'll be back to finish the story.