Snake Hill on the east side of Saratoga Lake is a unique geological feature that can be compared to developments in the Alps. I worked with a student on the geology of this low (about 200-foot ...

During the period from September 16, 2004 to July 31, 2005, the Phase I Drilling Program will include the expenditure of an additional $1.5 million on the geology, logging and drilling.

Its east face is an escarpment rising upwards of 1,000 feet from meadows at its base. In geologic terms this is textbook overthrust geology — older rocks pushed up and over younger rocks.

Because it was flowing in the Martic Overthrust. Today, if you stand at the boat launch on Black Rock Road, you can see the whole way to the dam, a distance of over 3.5 miles.

The acreage is in the West Texas Overthrust area of the Val Verde basin. Cantex Energy earned the right to participate in the Big Canyon prospect by funding and deploying a seismic survey in 2004-05.