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  title info:
    title: Geology of the McMillan Ranch in Mason, Texas
    sub title: an assessment of the nature of normal faults in the Mason area
  name:
    name part: Harper, Rebecca Anne.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Mathewson, Christopher C.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Mason, Texas and the surrounding areas have been previously studied and mapped at small scales, showing the large normal faults that cut through the area. Many secondary faults exist close to the large faults, and are not mapped in previous studies because of the small scale of the maps. The large number of faults, when the smaller secondary faults are considered, makes Mason a good place for studying the nature of normal faults in this region and making generalizations about their nature. This thesis examines one of these faults, the McMillan Fault, and the secondary faults in its hanging wall at a large scale, in order to assess the nature of normal faults in the Mason area. The McMillan Ranch in Mason, Texas, was mapped at a scale of 1:7,000 using both traditional and digital mapping methods, to determine the lengths and displacements of each fault, and attempt to determine a length/displacement ratio which can be applied to all normal faults in this area. A single length/displacement ratio was not determined, just as in previous studies. This study determined that the normal faults in the area are planar, high angle normal faults with varying displacement amounts. As a result, observations determined that deformation in the hanging wall of normal faults exceeded the deformation in the footwalls of the same faults. The main fault on the McMillan Ranch is the McMillan Fault, and its shape is determined based upon the orientation of the subsidiary normal faults in its hanging wall. A detailed study of the geology of the McMillan Ranch and the surrounding area, including a geologic history of the area, geologic map and cross section, and stratigraphic descriptions including bed-by-bed descriptions, stratigraphic column, and thin sections of each unit was carried out as a preliminary step to perform analyses of the faults on the ranch. The presence of the McMillan Fault was already known, and the pasture that was chosen for this study was best represented at a scale …
  note: by Rebecca Anne Harper.
  note: "Major Subject: Geology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-11-01 09:04:20).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-10181
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Geology
  subject:
    topic: Normal faults
  subject:
    topic: Mason
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Texas
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-10181
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 111111
    record change date: 20151202144211.0
    record identifier: in00002723591