Comments on: Big Bend Vistas

By: The Window « Geo Tex

The Window « Geo Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:51:33 +0000

[...] is the cover photograph of Big Bend Vistas. The photograph is of The Window, taken from Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive at 5:40 p.m. Vernon Bailey [...]

By: Crown Mountain « Geo Tex

Crown Mountain « Geo Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:49:13 +0000

[...] photograph is one of my favorites from Big Bend Vistas. Crown Mountain is an extinct volcano overlying a volcanic vent on the rim of the Pine Canyon [...]

By: Persimmon Peak « Geo Tex

Persimmon Peak « Geo Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:44:42 +0000

[...] One of the best expositions of the structure of the Santiago Mountains is given by Persimmon Peak just before the entrance to Big Bend National Park. Conglomerate and coarse sandstone of the Glen Rose Formation at the base of the Cretaceous are wrapped round an overturned anticline on the left. Within the anticline, a thrust fault has itself been folded, resulting in Maravillas strata lying over younger Tesnus strata. At the base of the peak, Glen Rose sedimentary rocks are separated from overturned upper Cretaceous strata by the main Santiago Mountains thrust fault, which runs from Red Mountain to Dog Canyon. The Tesnus Formation belongs to the upper Pennsylvanian period, some 340 million years old, younger than the Ordovician Maravillas Formation, around 450 million years old, but much younger than the Glen Rose Formation, 140 million years old. The photograph, diagram and description are from Big Bend Vistas. [...]

By: The Chisos Mountains from the South « Geo Tex

The Chisos Mountains from the South « Geo Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:43:36 +0000

[...] Big Bend National Park photographs is this one of the mountains from the south. I have used it in Big Bend Vistas and the 2010 Mountains of the Big Bend [...]

By: Green Gulch « Geo Tex

Green Gulch « Geo Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:42:28 +0000

[...] favorite from Big Bend National Park and used in Big Bend Vistas and now as a postcard is this view of Casa Grande (7,325 feet) from the Tree Zone Exhibit at Mile [...]

By: Casa Grande « Geo Tex

Casa Grande « Geo Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:36:46 +0000

[...] Another view of Casa Grande from Chisos Mountains Lodge. The restaurant building is in the lower left corner. This photograph is also used in Big Bend Vistas. [...]