Caprock or cap rock is a more resistant rock type overlying a less resistant rock type,[1] analogous to an upper crust on a cake that is harder than the underlying layer.
^Kearey, Philip (2001). Dictionary of Geology, 2nd ed., Penguin Reference, London, New York, etc., p. 41.. ISBN 978-0-14-051494-0.
Caprock or cap rock is a more resistant rock type overlying a less resistant rock type, analogous to an upper crust on a cake that is harder than the...
The Caprock Escarpment is a term used in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico to describe the geographical transition point between the level High Plains...
Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park located along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado in Briscoe County, Texas, United States...
by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa. The caprock can consist of either sedimentary rocks such as...
distinct from North Texas, which is further south and east. West of the Caprock Escarpment and North and South of the Canadian River breaks, the surface...
hard caprock overlies a layer of less resistant rock that is eventually worn away. The harder rock on top of the butte resists erosion. The caprock provides...
The Caprock Chief or Caprock Xpress was a proposed Amtrak inter-city rail service which would run from Fort Worth, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, passing...
35.1796; -101.8025 Caprock High School is located in Amarillo, Texas in Potter, County, which is part of the Texas Panhandle. Caprock is one of four high...
underwater waterfalls can form as the cold water rushes to the bottom. The caprock model of waterfall formation states that the river courses over resistant...
conforms with the dip of a resistant stratum or strata, called caprock. The outcrop of the caprock forms a steeper or even cliff-like frontslope (escarpment)...
harder stratum, or caprock, above it. The alcoves erode further into the formation eventually meeting underneath the harder caprock layer, thus creating...
geology, a trap is a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and caprock of a petroleum system allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons in a reservoir...
Battlefield National Historic Site. The North Central Plains are bounded by the Caprock Escarpment to the west, the Edwards Plateau to the south, and the Eastern...
direction of dip and thickness of the caprock. A thin caprock will result in low cliffs that retreat quickly. However, a caprock is not essential for scarp retreat...
consists of the upper surface of a resistant layer of rock, often called caprock, that is commonly only slightly lowered and reduced in steepness by erosion...
Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer, the Palmer Divide is a caprock escarpment-style ridge in central Colorado that separates the Arkansas...
slope, that conforms with the dip of a resistant stratum or strata, called caprock. On the other side of the other slope, which is its frontslope, of a homoclinal...
major conglomerate) with rare lenses of mudstone, sometimes forming a caprock because of its hardness, cementation, and erosion resistance. The Shinarump...
precisely how the edge of the plains appear when viewed from below the caprock.: 355 The Llano Estacado lies at the southern end of the Western High...
to protect it against severe wind storms. During 1956 KOBR-TV Tower in Caprock, New Mexico, became the world's tallest structure. The tower was deconstructed...
oil, A porous and permeable reservoir rock where it can accumulate, A caprock (seal) or other mechanism to prevent the oil from escaping to the surface...
sinking underground again at elevation of the contact between the sandstone caprock and the underlying massive limestones. It is in these underlying massive...
hoodoos. These are formed by resistant beds of sandstone, which form the caprock of the buttes and hoodoos. Badlands arise from a combination of an impermeable...
code 321 is also the NPA used for SatCom Satellite Phone units. Harris/Caprock Corporation has maritime satellite calls going through its corporate call...
is part of a larger pine-hardwood forest. The Cross Timbers region and Caprock Escarpment are part of the Interior Lowlands. The Great Plains region in...
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