Students at Blount Mountain
Location: Near Llano, TX
Year: 1991
Merckslides catalogue number: 06-17208
Comments: The Llano Uplift is a weird region. First, it's a topographic depression despite being a structural uplift. Second, it exposes a patch of very old rocks (1.2 billion to 350 million years) that are distinct and anomalous among the flat Cretaceous limestons of central Texas. The 1.2 billion year old rocks at Blount mountain are folded and highly metamorphosed. A good place for students to learn about mapping deformed rock units.
