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Theme : Looking at Earth - Mountains - Hills - Snow - Ice  (539 images)

Title : Austin, Texas, U.S.A. October 1989

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Austin, the state capital, shows two different geologic provinces—the low, rolling Black Prairie to the east where agriculture and ranching predominate, and a dissected, uplifted plateau of limestone to the west. The Balcones fault, a northeast-southwest demarcation of these two geologic areas, creates the Balcones escarpment that extends through the western half of Austin. Visible are natural and manmade features—the southeast-flowing Colorado River along the southern edge of downtown Austin; dark, serpentine Lake Travis (bottom center); the runway of Bergstrom Air Force Base southeast of the city; and several white limestone mines north and south of the city and west of Interstate Highway 35.