Analysis of seven frames of Landsat imagery covering the Texas Panhandle and adjacent areas revealed linear physiographic features including stream channels, stream valleys, scarps, and aligned playa-lake depressions.
Oakwood Salt Dome in Leon and Freestone Counties, East Texas, is under consideration as a nuclear waste repository.
The third year of research was highlighted by the integration of regional basinal studies with growth histories for specific domes, studies of cap-rock diagenesis and salt deformation, preliminary studies of ground-water flow and geochemistry around Oakwood Dome, and preliminary studies of micros
The Salado-Tansill and Alibates Formations are the youngest evaporite and carbonate facies within a thick Permian sequence of evaporites, carbonates, and red beds in the Texas Panhandle.
Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Sutton County and parts of Terrell, Crockett, Val Verde, Edwards, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, and Pecos Counties.