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The geography of Texas spans a wide range of features and timelines. Texas is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which ends in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. It is in the south-central part of the United States of America. It is considered to form part of the U.S. South and also part of the U.S. Southwest.
The Rio Grande, Red River and Sabine River all provide natural state lines where Texas borders Oklahoma on the north, Louisiana and Arkansas on the east, and New Mexico and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south.
By residents, the state is generally divided into North Texas, East
Texas, Central Texas, South Texas, and West Texas, but according to the
Texas Almanac, Texas has four major physical regions: Gulf Coastal
Plains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and The Basin and Range
Province. This is the difference between human geography and physical
geography.
Some regions of Texas are associated with the South more than the
Southwest (primarily East Texas and North Texas), while other regions
share more similarities with the Southwest than the South (primarily
West Texas and South Texas). The Texas Panhandle and South Plains
regions don't fit either category; they seem to have more in common
with parts of the Midwestern United States. The size of Texas prohibits
easy categorization of the entire state wholly in any recognized region
of the United States; geographic, economic, and even cultural diversity
between regions of the state preclude treating Texas as a region in its
own right.
Geology
Texas is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which ends in the
south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. It is mostly
sedimentary rocks, with east Texas underlain by a Cretaceous and
younger sequence of sediments, the trace of ancient shorelines east and
south until the active continental margin of the Gulf of Mexico is met.
This sequence is built atop the subsided crest of the Appalachian
Mountains—Ouachita Mountains—Marathon Mountains zone of Pennsylvanian
continental collision, which collapsed when rifting in Jurassic time
opened the Gulf of Mexico. West from this orogenic crest, which is
buried beneath the Dallas—Waco—Austin—San Antonio trend, the sediments
are Permian and Triassic in age. Oil is found in the Cretaceous
sediments in the east, the Permian sediments in the west, and along the
Gulf coast and out on the Texas continental shelf. A few exposures of
Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks are found in the central and
western parts of the state, and Oligocene volcanic rocks are found in
far west Texas, in the Big Bend area. A blanket of Miocene sediments
known as the Ogallala formation in the western high plains region is an
important aquifer. Texas has no active or dormant volcanoes and few
earthquakes, being situated far from an active plate tectonic boundary.
(The Big Bend area is the most seismically active; however, the area is
sparsely populated and suffers minimal damages and injuries, and no
known fatalities have been attributed to a Texas earthquake.)
Climate
The large size of the state of Texas and its location at the
intersection of several climate zones gives the state highly variable
weather. In general, though, there are three main climatic zones: the
humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) of the eastern half of Texas,
the temperate semi-arid (Koppen BSk) steppe climate of the northwestern
part, including the Panhandle, and the subtropical steppe climate
(nearly a arid desert climate, Koppen BSh) of the southern parts of
West Texas, particularly around El Paso.
The Panhandle of the state is cooler in the winter than North Texas or
the Gulf Coast. Different regions of Texas experience vastly different
precipitation patterns: El Paso averages as little as 7.8 inches of
rain per year while the average annual precipitation is 59 inches in
Orange, Texas. Moderate snowfall often falls in the winter months in
the north. Maximum temperatures in the summer months average from the
80s °F in the mountains of West Texas and on Galveston Island to around
100 °F in the Rio Grande Valley. Nighttime summer temperatures range
from the upper 50s °F in the West Texas mountains to 80 °F in Galveston.
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JOE THYNE I joined the military on April 27, 1988 on my 17th birthday (with a waiver signed by my parents). In my military career, I progressed through the ranks first as an E-1 (Private) up to an E-5 (Sergeant).
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