Field Trip Guidebook on Environmental Impact of Clays Along the Upper Texas Coast |
Contents
Lake Charles and Midland Series | 17 |
STOP 12 Midland Clay | 23 |
Subsidence and Surface Faulting at San Jacinto Monument | 33 |
Common terms and phrases
active faults aquifers Aronow Baytown Bayway Beaumont Formation clay Brownwood Brownwood Subdivision Campbell Bayou Facility Chicot Clanton Clay Minerals Society clayey Creek Oil Field dark gray 10YR downthrown side Economic Geology Elsbury expansive soils feet of subsidence Field trip guidebook FIGURE Flight Control Room Galveston area GALVESTON BAY Goose Creek Oil ground water growth faults GULF OF MEXICO Harris County hazards Houston area Houston metropolitan area Houston Ship Channel Houston-Clear Lake Houston-Galveston area Hurricane Carla IMPACT OF CLAYS Johnson Space Center kaol kaolinite Kreitler Lake Charles land landfill liner loamy located Lunar Sample Building McGowen mica Midland soil miles Mockup Morton nearly level nm quartz payload Pleistocene poorly drained pumping ROLLING STOP SAN JACINTO MONUMENT sands sea level sediments Siclen slowly permeable smectite southeast space flight subangular blocky structure surface faulting Texas at Austin Texas coastal plain University of Houston-Clear UPPER TEXAS COAST Verbeek Vertisols Wooster Fault X-ray diffractograms