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Schedule of Events TGS 3nd Annual Earth Science Week Photo Contest Theme: "Living on a Restless Earth" Entries: Must be 8X10 photos or matted to 8X10, with your name and address on the back. Entry fee: $5 each. Prizes: 1st - $50 2nd - $25 3rd - $10 Deadline: Noon on Friday, October 15th, 2004. Entries should be sent to: Tarleton Geological Society Box T-0540 Stephenville, TX 76402 They can be hand delivered to the Science Building Room #117. |



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Small scale normal faults. |
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Image Transformations-Montserrat |
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NASA Radar Gives Fresh Look at Alaska's Unique Terrain |

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Description: The Spanish Peaks, on the eastern flank of the Sangre de Cristo range, abruptly rise 7,000 feet above the western Great Plains. Settlers, treasure hunters, trappers, gold and silver miners have long sighted on these prominent landmarks along the Taos branch of the Santa Fe trail. Well before the westward migration, the mountains figured in the legends and history of the Ute, Apache, Comanche, and earlier tribes. "Las Cumbres Espaņolas" are also mentioned in chronicles of exploration by Spaniards including Ulibarri in 1706 and later by de Anza, who eventually founded San Francisco (California |