Trip to the Buffalo Gap - Coronado
Camp area
Taylor, Howard, 1978, Occurrence,
Quantity, and Quality of Groundwater in Taylor County, Texas. Texas Dept.
of Water Resources. Report 224.
Trip to the Abilene Water Treatment
Plant
City of Abilene, Water Utilities Department, 1996, City of
Abilene Water Management Plan
Trip to the Abilene Wastewater
Treatment Plant
City of Abilene, Water Utilities Department, 1996, City of
Abilene Water Management Plan
Trip to the Browning Ferris Industries
Sanitary Landfill
No references cited
Trip to the "hill country " around
Llano, Texas
1.Ahr, W.M., 1988, Cambrian Algal Reefs of the
Wilberns Formation, central Texas, The Camp San Saba Locality. GSA Centennial
Field Guide, SC Section.
2.Barnes, V.E., 1988, The Precambrian of central Texas. GSA Centennial Field Guide, SC Section.
3.Barnes, V.E. and others, 1972, Geology of the Llano Region and Austin Area, Field Excusion. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook No. 13
4. Hutchinson, R., 1988, Enchanted Rock dome, Llano and Gillespie Counties, Texas. GSA Centennial Field Guide, SC Section.
5. Kier, R., 1988, Paleozoic strata of the Llano region, central Texas. GSA Centennial Field Guide, SC Section.
6.Mohr,D., 1983, personal communication.
7. Spearing, D., 1991, Roadside Geology of Texas, Mountain Press
Trip to a T.V. Studio
No references cited
Trip to the Area between Mineral
Wells and Abilene,Texas
1.Brown, L.F. and others, 1973,
Pennsylvanian Depositional Systems in North-Central Texas, University of
Texas Guidebook 14.
2.Buchanan, H., ~1995, personal
communication.
3.Cromwell, D.W., 1982, Middle
and Upper Pennsylvanian Systems of North-Central and West Texas, SEPM Pub.
82-21.
4. Spearing,D. , 1991, Roadside Geology of Texas. Mountain Press.
Trip to the Davis Mountains,
Big Bend National Park, and
the Marathon Uplift Area
1. Henry, C.D., Kunk, M.J., and
McIntosh, W.C. 1994, 40Ar/39Ar chronology and volcanology of silic volcanism
in the Davis Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas. GSA Bull. v. 106, pg. 1359-1376.
2. Henry,C.D.and others,1988, Widespread,
lavalike silic volcanic rocks of Trans-Pecos, Texas. Geology, vol.16, pg.
509-512.
3.McBride, E., 1988, Geology of
the Marathon Uplift, West Texas. GSA Centennial Field Guide - South Central
Section.
4.Parker, D.F., Tsuchiya, L.C.
and McKnight,C.l.,1991, The Davis Mountains Volcanic Field. Guidebook
of the SW Association of Student Geological Societies.
5.Parker, D.F. , 1983, Origin of
the trachyte-quartz trachyte-peralkalic rhyolite suite of the Oligocene
Paisano Volcano, Trans-Pecos Texas. GSA Bull. vol. 94, pg. 614-629.
6.Parker,D., 1988, Davis Mountains Volcanic Field, west Texas. GSA Centennial,
SC Section.
7.Price,J.G, Henry, C.D., Parker, D.F. and Barker, D.S., 1986, Igneous Geology of Trans-Pecos Texas. Field
Trip Guide and Research Articles. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook
23.
8. Spearing, D., 1991, Roadside Geology of Texas. Mountain Press.
*Also
very useful are maps in Maxwell, R.A., et.al., 1967, Geology of the Big Bend
National Park, Texas. Bureau of Economic Geology, Texas.
Note: The Roadside Geology of Texas by Darwin Spearing, 1991, Mountain Press, is a very introductory level book that explains the geology of Texas to the layman or non-geologist. It is useful for the non-Texan geologist visiting the state for a quick summary of our diverse geology.
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