#caprock

[michael-massa-micon]

Fortresses? - October 2023 The drive from the Kaibab Paiute Pipe Spring RV Park just south of Kanab, Utah, to Saint George, Utah, is a beautiful drive through desert, cliffs, rock formations, and some rather steep mountain roads. As you drive along it is almost hard to accept that these are natural, not man-made formations. What looks like castles or fortresses from a distance become caprock or volcanic formations as you draw closer. MWM

[0wlbot]

hiking and looking at rocks was really the best way to spend the first few days of the year

[beaujuniperbooks]

An Ode to Texas State Parks

In Texas state parks, Where the wildflowers bloom, And the rivers flow, Nature's beauty consumes.

From the desert plains, To the lush green hills, The echoes of time, And the peace it instills.

[glennwc]

Sightseeing on the Texas Caprock and eastern New Mexico.

[davorrom]

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[tempest-melody]

Caprock Canyons State Park

This was kinda of a wild camping trip. We kept being chased away by chill bison. They were there and weren’t going to be moving anytime soon so we went elsewhere. There was a bison in the middle of the hiking trail and when we got back to camp a big bison was just laying around our camp. We also got yelled at by prairie dogs and I pretty sure Bear conned us into taking things out of his…

[praxcrown5]

I was taking geology classes last year so ummm what's the natural disaster that you dread the most?

And also do you ever think about the insane amounts of erosion required to make the cliffs in Cars look like actual cars?

So, before I started teaching geology, I was afraid of volcanoes and tornadoes. Now that I know more about both, neither really terrify. I have seen volcanic eruptions first hand, clambered around on fresh pyroclastic flows, looked down into smoking craters, hugged giant blocks of obsidian...and while the power that they possess is mind-boggling...they can only hurt you if you live near one (which I don't). When doing field work, I was well aware of the dangers of working on an active volcano...and if something would have happened beyond my control, I'd have died...probably well before I was even aware of anything. But that was a calculated risk. I put myself in harms way to collect data that could be used to save lives...which is a lot different than having one's house rocked by an eruption. This does happen, but again, mostly to people living in the shadow of these mountains...and even then, if an eruption does occur, usually there is enough warning to at least get the heck out of dodge. Climate altering eruptions (i.e. Yellowstone) are so rare that you have a better chance of winning the lottery AND getting struck by lighting in the same instant than ever having to live through one. So...yeah, not too concerned. As for tornadoes, I currently live by the Great Lakes. My house has a much higher likelihood of being buried by lake-effect snow than blown down by a tornado. And even when I lived in Texas, right in the heart of Tornado Alley, it was still more likely for a tornado to miss your house than plow into it.

Right now, the only natural disasters I fear are those not covered by my homeowners insurance: Floods and ground movement. I live on a small escarpment, and there has never been a flood big enough to reach my house as far back as records go. So, not an issue. Earthquakes can happen here...but they tend to be small. Ground subsidence is more likely, but since ours is an older house, most of the subsidence that comes with new development has already happened. Climate change, on the other hand, is a very real thing that has been changing weather patterns. Two years ago, I survived the worst blizzard I've ever seen, one that dumped nearly eight feet of snow on my house in three days...then it all melted within a week accompanied by rain. Who knows what the future holds, or whether the house will hold up to the challenges. We'll have to wait and see...

I am still in AWE of the first cars movie and how much research they did to make Ornament Valley look as good as they did. You need only look up Monument Valley, AZ or Bryce Canyon or Arches National Park or The Grand Canyon to see real examples of how weathering and erosion can do amazing things with solid rock...given enough time. One of the little details that I like is that they also have correct geology too. Like, if you look at Willie's Butte, you can see that there is a caprock of resistant rock and that the layers beneath are thinner and look like they're made of shale or claystone, both of which weather faster than rocks like sandstone or limestone. Even the Cadillac Range behind Radiator Springs looks a LOT like the Minarets, a series of jagged peaks in the Sierra Nevada. And the lighting! Don't even get me started on that. It's perfect. When I watch the movie, I feel like I'm there. It's very, very impressive.

Sorry if this response is long-winded... :D I could talk for hours about the geology of the Cars movies...

[nmnomad]

The Lybrook landscape is a colorful spectrum of southwestern earth tones, ranging from yellow, brown, pink, and purple to stark, tall hills of layered black and white. The region is a visual cornucopia of peculiar rock formations, including tall spires, hefty hoodoos, towering caprocks, and other bizarre geologic specimens. It is a glorious place for geology geeks.

[melmac78]

@katblu42 wrote: “I know practically nothing about Texas, other than it is big, and in the South of the USA. It seems to be portrayed as having fairly warm weather . . . but as large as it is, does it have regions of varying weather patterns? And in a similar vein, are there various areas of diverse vegetation/fauna?”

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In short, yes. I live in West Texas and mom in Southeast (about 500 or so miles apart), and we can have essentially two seasons. It can rain there and be bone dry here, and sometimes in the winter she asks me the temp so she can prepare the next day.

And it’s no exaggeration some parts of the state you can experience at least 3 seasons in the same day. I’m personally lucky in that I seem to have adapted to this particularly go here, which it’s frequent 2 seasons a day right now, but I get funny looks being in short sleeves in cooler weather because of it.

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Vegetation/fauna is definitely diverse. If I travel from home to Mom’s, in that 8 hour drive I go from:

• a flat area where most trees that aren’t mesquite were planted by settlers (you can tell where a house is/was based on clusters of trees), that grows cotton and feed if they aren’t an oil town

• area with mesas and wind turbines after leaving the Caprock, another ironically heavier oil area. The turbines are increasing to the point I joke they’re “Don Quixote’s nightmare.

• areas with thicker areas of trees that are shorter, oddly at times more prickly pear cactus, and bigger cities,

(This varies if I take the longer route - uncommon but I will in December to run a different St. Jude race - through Boerne/San Antonio where you go through the mesas and rolling plains again in the middle of the state, and unfortunately experience 40 mins. of cell phone dead zone. It’s bad to the point it’s LEGAL to go 80 mph to get through it)

• heavily wooded area and gentle hills.

And then if we go to Galveston or Corpus Christi there’s some marshy areas and then the coast.

The marshiest area is around La Porte I think, which is where the battle of San Jacinto was and the Texas fighters used this to an advantage.

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Wildlife varies. I see more wild turkey and pheasant here than east coast. I’ve seen a few roadrunners but they seem more prevalent in the Palo Duro Canyon.

Prairie dogs are far more common in west Texas. Amarillo’s minor league team’s mascot is Sodpoodles (a nickname) and Lubbock has one park dedicated to the black tail prairie dogs.

Anyone watching them I’d say don’t walk close: their town system underground makes it dangerous to walk lest you fall through a hole.

I definitely see more deer near moms along with raccoons. Skunks more often here: in the summer I must walk the cemetery in full daylight, not dusk as they seem to like living there more. (Just clarifying for folks: where I am the cemetery is the safest place to walk due to bad traffic and has a very high visibility).

Snakes are definitely a big issue all around. For the poisonous ones, West Texas more rattlers and coral while East copperheads and water moccasins (though up here we’ll see some copperheads).

Coast we see a lot of sea turtles nest there, particularly Kemp Ridley. There’s a lot of hatching ceremonies in the year where the state protects the turtles until they waddle into the Gulf to give them a fighting chance to survive.

I’m sure there’s even more than this, but it’s more of I’ve experienced here

Thanks for the ask.

[raychelsnr]

Classic Caprock Twister

[ophernelia]

can i talk about some ideas i have for season 3 of lykaia? (no plot point related spoilers lol)

so for season 3 i wanna stray away from ea names and instead use irl locations and a few made up ones. so like for chestnut ridge, it's gonna be called redwater point, texas. (heavily inspired by quitaque texas and the caprock canyons) anyway here's the inspo.

[bloodyquillink-blog]

Was reading a thing (totally not a Simon “Ghost” Riley smut drabble) when a very specific line caught my eye. Something about a silver laced tongue. Which got me thinking about “Like That” and that one line “talking with braces on your tongue, just to provoke my combat”. According to collinsdictionary.com, a silver-tongued person is “very skillful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do”.

Small note: braces(the metal bits) *can* have silver or silver alloys within them, some do, some don’t according to doctor internet.

I like to imagine that with the rest of the lyrics “Push down into membranes and layers, creating a slow dissection, I stumble into your tar trap, an addition to your collection” it’s a way of saying Vessel was basically picked apart to be used by this person who he probably couldn’t separate himself from because they knew him too well, inside and out. He could be used like a puppet to suit the needs of this person. “Turn me into your mannequin and I’ll turn you into my puppet queen”.

Another interesting thing is how he said tar trap. Maybe I’m looking to far into it, but usually when you hear about tar, you’d say tar pit to reference it but this could be another thing about how he was trapped in this relationship.

According to wikipedia:

Tar is made of asphalt

Tar/asphalt forms in the presence of oil

Oil is made when decayed organic matter is under pressure underground

“Tar pits form above oil reserves, and these deposits are often found in anticlinal traps.”

A trap is “a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and caprock of a petroleum system allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons in a reservoir”. Hydrocarbons play a part in creating the tar/tar traps if I’m understanding correctly.

In La Brea tar pits, an extremophile bacteria called purple sulfur bacteria was found(this is not the only bacteria but it was the most common one found I believe).

The bacteria requires a “reducing agent” which is when an electron is “donated” by a chemical species. The bacteria tend to use sulfur, apparently in the form of sulfides (“sulfur on your breath, granite in my chest”).

I’m overthinking with this, probably, but for once, the overthinking is making me happy so it’s fine.

Links:

Tar pit wikipedia

geological trap wikipedia

purple sulfur bacteria wikipedia

[mothmiso]

2023.07.18 Caprock Coulee Trail (2) by Roaming Together

Via Flickr:

(1) Mini hoodoos.

[sup3rmelon]

"The idea is, after the rig has extracted the last of the petroleum from under the caprock we can leave the pipe in place, and we run it in reverse to pump the earth full of meat slurry. Once the reservoir is full, we just leave it for a couple million and when we get back, viola! More petrol! Using this technique we can actually treat oil as a renewable resource, assuming the planners are right about the longevity of the state."

"Contrary to popular belief, the meat is actually only about 15% human, and most of thats combatants anyway. We used to run em through something like a big meatgrinder. Those were real finicky though, so we switched to the crocs about 30 years back. You just shovel the meat into it's mouth, the croc chews it up real good, and then when it gets to it's stomach the slurry is pumped back out through the cannula. The techs make sure the croc gets enough to stay strong, but not so much that it's sated, you know? Otherwise it won't eat as quick. When they finally do kick it we can just feed the remains through another one so we dont even gotta fuss over anything. Except for the jaw muscles, we like to harvest those and sell em for use in military crossbows."

[davorrom]

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[lifeblender]

Let me tell you something about driving in Northwest Texas

So you're heading from Dallas to Lubbock, why? Family or something

Lubbock is up on what's called the "Caprock", a plateau that stretches farther than the borders of a lot of major cities and some small countries

So you're driving uphill, and that's fine

It's even interesting, there's some fun geology, and that's where they put a lot of giant wind turbines, because there's very few people and lots of wind

But then there's a weird sort of extra rise and you go over the crest and in front of you is the entire plateau

You continue to drive, but for the next fifty miles, that's 50, e.g. almost an hour Even with modern cars, all the terrain looks the same, and flat

For one thing, you can always look back and see that ridge

It makes you feel nailed to the ground

You literally feel like you cannot move, because no matter what you do, the land is so flat that you cannot accomplish any motion that changes your sense of position in the world

It is incredibly easy to feel trapped out there, and there's no cage, nothing to push against

Just you, whoever you're with, and endless, endless flat