Presentation: Geologic History of Texas: The Making of Texas Over 1.5 Billion Years

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dc.creatorKyle, Richard
dc.creatorEnvironmental Science Institute
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-27T20:40:28Z
dc.date.available2017-03-27T20:40:28Z
dc.date.issued2000-03-24
dc.descriptionAs you travel along Texas highways or hike through state or federal parks, do you wonder why there are different rocks in different areas? Or if an area has always looked like it does now? Or why certain mineral resources like oil are produced in certain parts of the state? Geology is the study of the nature and origin of the Earth, including the processes that have created it over long periods of time. Geologists use modern environments and processes to help interpret the Earth’s history as recorded by ancient rocks. Climate has major effects on the formation of many sedimentary rock types; therefore, local and global climatic environments are recorded in the rocks. Understanding the processes and rates of movement of the Earth’s plates allows reconstruction of the relative plate positions at different times in Earth history. Geologic history of Texas is recorded in the rocks that are exposed throughout the state and fill the many subsurface sedimentary basins. These rocks document a changing land surface that began more than a billion years ago. Texas has been the site of explosive volcanoes, strong earthquakes, major mountain ranges, vast deserts, evaporating salt basins, tropical forests, river and delta systems, tropical seas and barrier reefs, and beaches and barrier islands. Erosion of highlands filled subsiding sedimentary basins and adjacent continental margins. Colliding plates deformed, metamorphosed, and uplifted these materials to complete the rock cycle. Texas’ abundant and varied mineral resources (oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, metals, groundwater, limestone, salt, gypsum, clays, and soils) are products of these geologic events.en_US
dc.description.departmentEnvironmental Science Instituteen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2MS3K65V
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/46226
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEnvironmental Science Instituteen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGeologic History of Texas: The Making of Texas Over 1.5 Billion Yearsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHot Science - Cool Talks;4
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectgeologyen_US
dc.subjectTexasen_US
dc.subjectmineral resourcesen_US
dc.subjectoilen_US
dc.subjectrocksen_US
dc.titlePresentation: Geologic History of Texas: The Making of Texas Over 1.5 Billion Yearsen_US
dc.typeLearning objecten_US

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