A Geological Journey

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we arrived at our second destination, a location just east of Marble Falls. When we arrived at 11:06 a.m., it wasn’t raining anymore, but it was still drizzling. The wind was starting to get cold, and I realized that I didn’t bring a jacket. I started getting worried because I had to work the next day -- I thought that the group was going to get stuck at Austin until the weather gets better. The second location we visited consisted of mostly limestone. The age of these limestones were Pennsylvanian aged and that is because we found some crinoid fossils and faborites coral which existed around that time. We stayed at this location for about 45 minutes. After this stop, we decided that it was time for lunch. Originally we planned to eat at a picnic area, but since the weather was really bad, we decided to look for a restaurant. We finally decided to eat seafood at this restaurant called Dock’s around 11:50 a.m. I ordered a charbroiled chicken plate and sprite which cost me ...

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side of the road, but we parked across the street at a rest stop overlooking the lake. This was a very beautiful place so we took group pictures by the cliff overlooking the LBJ lake. The rocks in this particular location were Cambrian aged rocks because of the trilobite fossils that we saw. Some sites in this location were green because of galucanite, and the location was full of calcite rich sandstone. The top rocks were red because of the hematite. We also observed rocks along the cliff and noticed cross bedding, large ripple marks formed by oscillation of waves. This stop was one of my favorite stops. Before arriving at the sixth location, we took a wrong turn and got lost, ...

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