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Identifier: annualreportofun2171geol (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Subjects: Geological Survey (U.S.) Geology Water-supply Forest reserves Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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T occupy all the valley slopes of the GrandPrairie region west of the line above mentioned and east of theWestern Cross Timbers as it meanders around the foot of the westernescarpment. These areas of outcrop, which are separated by drainage divides,surmounted by the later formations making the cap rock of theLampasas Cut Plain, may be separated into two general groups, those 1 The term magnesian has long been applied to certain yellow strata in these beds. Whetherall of them are or are not magnesian in composition the writer can not state positively.
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HILL.) TOPOGRAPHY OF THE GLEN ROSE OUTCROP. 147 of the western escarpment border and those of the incised valleyslopes. These areas anastomose at places along some of the deeperdrainage valleys which cut through the western escarpment, as alongthe Brazos, Leon, and Colorado. The Glen Rose formations usually occupy irregular belts of prairie,either open or brush covered, varied by bosks and mottes of timber.These prairies are long, gentle slopes marked by small stratifiedterraces. (See PI. XXIII.) Adjacent to the immediate streamwaythe beds often occur as steep vertical bluffs. Back from the immediate streamway the unequal weathering of thealternately hard and soft layers produces steep slopes which arebeautifully benched and terraced, so that they resemble ancient shorelines. This effect is due to the difference in hardness of the persistenthorizontal layers, which consist of rapidly alternating soft clays ormarls and indurated strata. The height of these terraces of strati-fication i

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  • booksubject:Geology
  • booksubject:Water_supply
  • booksubject:Forest_reserves
  • booksubject:Mines_and_mineral_resources
  • bookpublisher:Washington___G_P_O_
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Illinois_Urbana_Champaign
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