From 1952 to 1956, Pemex conducted a considerable amount of stratigraphic field work in the eastern Sierra Madre and in Laramide folds to the north across the Sabinas Basin.

This nontechnical guidebook describes seven trails that visitors can walk within Pedernales (Spanish for the "flint" found in the park area) State Park, near Johnson City, in the Hill Country of Texas.

Salt structures can be extremely challenging to interpret and understand. To begin with, the high velocity contrast between salt and most sedimentary rocks means that many salt structures are poorly imaged on seismic data. Furthermore, salt behaves as a fluid in the subsurface, creating geometries unlike anything found in nonsalt provinces.

"When in the early 1980’s it became known that the Federal Government was planning to undertake the construction of the massive Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project, scientists in the various states, still without precise information on the criteria to be established for site selection, began to seek ways in which they, and their states,

Oil and gas resources on University Lands, 2.1 million acres in 19 West Texas counties, constitute a major asset of the University of Texas System. The original oil in place (OOIP) of the 102 major University Lands oil reservoirs is calculated to be 7,520 MMbbl.