caprock

Once the great bears had lived in the Palo Duro, and along the broken ledge that the whites called the caprock.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Once the great bears had lived in the Palo Duro, and along the broken ledge that the whites called the caprock.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Once the great bears had lived in the Palo Duro, and along the broken ledge that the whites called the caprock.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Once the great bears had lived in the Palo Duro, and along the broken ledge that the whites called the caprock.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

"AltaRock immediately ran into snags with its drilling, repeatedly snapping off bits in shallow formations called caprock," the Times reports.

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They headed southwest from Fort Sill, crossed the Red River and traveled along the eastern edge of the caprock.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

The highest of the bluffs, on the west side of the canyon, were part of a massive geological formation in west Texas called the “caprock,” essentially a long seam of rock that underlies the Llano Estacado and becomes an outcropping just at the point where the high plains give way to the lower, rolling plains.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

The final campaign took the form of five mounted columns designed to converge on the rivers and streams east of the caprock.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

When they finally found the trail, they realized that, after following the edge of the caprock, it went back over the bluff and down into the canyon.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Quanah and his party headed westward across the rolling plains, climbed the caprock, and crossed the dead-flat grasslands of the high plains under the scorching summer sun.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010