Lineament analysis based on Landsat imagery, Texas Panhandle

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dc.contributorGustavson, Thomas C.
dc.coverage.box-104, -100, 36.8333, 32.1833
dc.creatorFinley, Robert J.
dc.creatorGustavson, Thomas C.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-28T18:48:23Z
dc.date.available2019-10-28T18:48:23Z
dc.date.issued1981
dc.descriptionBureau Publication GC8105 - to purchase a print copy please go to: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/geologic-circulars/463-gc8105.html Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract Nos. DE-AC97-80ET46615 and DE-AC97-79ET46614
dc.description.abstractAnalysis 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. These lineaments show preferred orientations of 300°-320°, 030°-050°, and, 0°-020°. The 300°-320° orientation of aligned playas and shallow surface drainage is best developed on the surface of the Southern High Plains. The orthogonal 030°-050° orientation is less well represented. Lineaments oriented 0°-020° are most readily detected in the dissected terrain of the Roiling Plains in the eastern Texas Panhandle; a secondary orthogonal trend oriented 270°-280° is also present. Lineament orientations are similar to orientations of joints measured in the field and to regional structural trends, which suggests that development of physiographic lineaments is controlled or influenced by geologic structure. Few surface faults are mapped in the region; therefore, joints rather than widespread faults are a likely structural geologic control, Joints may provide paths of weakness along which surface drainage might develop preferentially. Joint intersections provide potential sites for downward percolation of water, possibly enhancing playa development, as suggested by dissolution of caliche beneath playas. Thus, joints probably exert an important control on the geomorphology of the region.
dc.description.departmentBureau of Economic Geology
dc.description.departmentUT Libraries
dc.format.dimensionsiv, 37 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
dc.identifierGC8105
dc.identifier.citationFinley, R. J., and Gustavson, T. C., 1981, Lineament Analysis Based on Landsat Imagery, Texas Panhandle: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Geological Circular 81-5, 37 p. doi.org/10.23867/gc8105Den_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/78040
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5129
dc.publisherUniversity of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
dc.relation.ispartofVirtual Landscapes of Texas
dc.relation.ispartofGeological Circulars
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGeological Circular (University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology), 81-5
dc.rights.restrictionOpen
dc.subjectJoints (Geology) -- Texas -- Texas Panhandle
dc.subjectLandsat satellites
dc.titleLineament analysis based on Landsat imagery, Texas Panhandle
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