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- Balcones_Fault abstract "The Balcones Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is a tensional structural system in the U.S. state of Texas that runs approximately from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north central region near Dallas along Interstate 35. The Balcones Fault zone is made up of many smaller features, including normal faults, grabens, and horsts. One of the obvious features is the Mount Bonnell Fault.The location of the fault zone may be related to the Ouachita Mountains, formed 300 million years ago during a continental collision. Although long since eroded away in Texas, the roots of these ancient mountains still exist, buried beneath thousands of feet of sediment. These buried Ouachita Mountains may still be an area of weakness that becomes a preferred site for faulting when stress exists in the Earth's crust.The Balcones Fault has remained inactive for nearly 15 million years, with the last activity being during the Miocene epoch. This activity was related to subsidence of the Texas Coastal Plain, most likely from the large amount of sediment deposited on it by Texas rivers. Although the Balcones Fault zone has recently been active, it is in one of the lowest-risk zones for earthquakes in the United States.The surface expression of the fault is the Balcones Escarpment, which forms the eastern boundary of the Texas Hill Country and the western boundary of the Texas Coastal Plain and consists of cliffs and cliff-like structures. Subterranean features such as Wonder Cave and numerous other smaller caves are found along the fault zone.Many cities are located along this fault zone. Springs such as San Pedro Springs, Comal Springs, San Marcos Springs, Barton Springs and Salado Springs are found in the fault zone and provide a source of fresh water and a place for human settlement.The Balcones Fault Zone is a demarcation line for certain ecological systems and species distributions, e.g., the California fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) is the only species of palm tree that is native to the continental United States west of the Balcones Fault.".
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- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Arecaceae.
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- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Barton_Springs.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Escarpments_of_the_United_States.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Texas.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Texas.
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- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Comal_Springs_(Texas).
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Crust_(geology).
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Dallas.
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- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Earthquake.
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- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Escarpment.
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- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Graben.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Horst_(geology).
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_35.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Miocene.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Mount_Bonnell.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Normal_fault.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Ouachita_Mountains.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Salado_Springs.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink San_Marcos_Springs.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink San_Pedro_Springs.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Sediment.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Subsidence.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Tensile_structure.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Texas.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Texas_Coastal_Bend.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Texas_Coastal_Plain.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Texas_Hill_Country.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink U.S._state.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Washingtonia_filifera.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Wonder_Cave_(San_Marcos,_Texas).
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLink File:Mount_Bonnell_1889.jpg.
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "Balcones Escarpment".
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "Balcones Fault Zone".
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "Balcones Fault line".
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "Balcones Fault zone".
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "Balcones Fault".
- Balcones_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "San Marcos Fault".
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- Balcones_Fault subject Category:Escarpments_of_the_United_States.
- Balcones_Fault subject Category:Geology_of_Texas.
- Balcones_Fault subject Category:Landforms_of_Texas.
- Balcones_Fault hypernym System.
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- Balcones_Fault type Landform.
- Balcones_Fault comment "The Balcones Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is a tensional structural system in the U.S. state of Texas that runs approximately from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north central region near Dallas along Interstate 35. The Balcones Fault zone is made up of many smaller features, including normal faults, grabens, and horsts.".
- Balcones_Fault label "Balcones Fault".
- Balcones_Fault sameAs Escarpement_de_Balcones.
- Balcones_Fault sameAs Scarpata_di_Balcones.
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- Balcones_Fault sameAs Balcones_Escarpment.
- Balcones_Fault sameAs Q1624307.
- Balcones_Fault sameAs Q1624307.
- Balcones_Fault wasDerivedFrom Balcones_Fault?oldid=682333883.
- Balcones_Fault depiction Mount_Bonnell_1889.jpg.
- Balcones_Fault isPrimaryTopicOf Balcones_Fault.