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One of Tornillo ISD's (Tornillo, TX) activity buses; a 2021 Blue Bird All American T3RE. Picture taken at the Comfort Suites University in Lubbock, TX.
This 2008 All American A3RE is one of Tornillo ISD's (Tornillo, TX) activity buses. Picture taken at Sutton County Park in Sonora, TX.
Soil profile: A representative soil profile of Tornillo loam in an area of Tornillo loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded. Tornillo soils are stratified from depositional events. They are very deep soils. (Soil Survey of Big Bend National Park, Texas; by James Gordon, Soil Scientist, James A. Douglass, Soil Scientist, and Dr. Lynn E. Loomis, Soil Scientist, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: An area of Tornillo loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded. Tornillo soils are on alluvial flats and very susceptible to water erosion. Tornillo soils are in the Loamy ecological site, Hot Desert Shrub vegetative zone of MLRA 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains. The background is the Rosillos Mountains, located in the northern area of Big Bend National Park.
The Tornillo series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in calcareous loamy alluvial materials. These nearly level to very gently sloping soils are on broad valley floors and flood plain steps. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 11 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 70 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Ustifluventic Haplocambids
Soil moisture: Ustic aridic moisture regime. Intermittently moist in the soil moisture control section during July through September.
Mean annual soil temperature: 72 to 78 degrees F.
Reaction: neutral to slightly alkaline
Texture: fine sandy loam, sandy clay loam, loam, silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam
Particle-size control section (weighted average):
Clay content: 18 to 35 percent
Rock fragments: 0 to 15 percent igneous and sedimentary gravel
Calcium carbonate equivalent: less than 10 percent
USE AND VEGETATION: Used mostly for livestock grazing. Present vegetation is creosotebush, mesquite, fluffgrass, slim tridens, tobosa, and threeawn.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southwest Texas in Major Land Resource Area 42. The series is of minor extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/bigbendT...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/T/TORNILLO.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Para el grupo I love l'atelier, juego #24: Detalles, foto 2/4
¿Pueden ser bonitos un montón de tornillos? Si los miras con detalle, yo creo que sí :)
This 2001 All American A3RE is one of Tornillo ISD's (Tornillo, TX) activity buses. Picture taken at Sutton County Park in Sonora, TX.
Paseo de Domingo, con el Tele en la mochila y mirando al suelo me llama la atención una pequeña hoja sobre el suelo de madera. Sus pequeñas dimensiones y su posible juego con los tornillos de sujección, me hace pararme, recolocarla y ver el resultado.
EQUIPO:
Cámara de formato completo y objetivo 70-200 mm.
Locura: Privación del juicio o del uso de la razón. Exaltación del ánimo o de los ánimos, producida por algún afecto u otro incentivo.
El de la locura y el de la cordura son dos países limítrofes, de fronteras tan imperceptibles, que nunca puedes saber con seguridad si te encuentras en el territorio de la una o en el territorio de la otra (Arturo Graf).
¿Estamos locos por buscar la primavera y hacer un diario...?. Yo he encontrado la respuesta: el tornillo que nos faltaba....
Bascetta Star aka Tornillo Star (Paolo Bascetta)
Rhombicuboctahedron assembly
squares, 48 units, no glue
Looking southwestward at a small canyon of a Tornillo Creek tributary.
In this location we're about 6.9 road mi / 11.1 road km north of the intersection of Old Ore Road and Park Road 12. So we're almost 5 mi (8 km) farther up this rocky track from the site of the previous, wildly popular and deeply appreciated photo in this series.
Whoever Carlota was, she certainly had quite an impact on the local landscape.
I've already shown and described Cuesta Carlota, the prominent ridge that parallels the lower portion of Old Ore Road and whose northern end terminates just east of here. And this scenic spot is known as Carlota Tinaja. That requires a bit of explaining.
It's my understanding the Spanish term tinaja denotes a large jar or other similar ceramic container. This leads me to this post's title, which is a play on the old schoolyard riddle, "When is a door not a door? — When it's ajar." Get it? When . . . it's . . a . . . jar. Of course, it loses its punch when it has to be explained.
But in this case, when is a tinaja/jar not a jar? — When it's a natural depression in the bedrock where standing water collects and wildlife and livestock come to drink. That's a nice poetic adaptation of the word, but I don't know if it has that additional meaning far and wide in Mexico and the adjacent US, or is just another of those funky things specific to the alternative universe that is Big Bend.
In any case, there must have been one of those watering holes down in that streambed.
If you've been to this park and spent some time in Boquillas Canyon and Santa Elena Canyon, you know that one of the area's big geologic stories has to do with the series of distinctly stratified Cretaceous-period formations on dramatic display. These contain a lot of limestone, but include other sedimentary rock types, too. They formed after North and South America parted company during the breakup of Pangaea.
In the big Rio Grande canyons, however, most of what you see are Lower Cretaceous units, including the massive, cliff-forming Santa Elena Limestone. Here, however there's a beatifically lovely exposure of the Upper Cretaceous Boquillas Formation. And according to the USGS map of the park I often cite (Kenzie J. Turner et al., 2011), the rock here belongs specifically to the Boquillas' San Vincente Member.
The booklet that accompanies the map describes the San Vicente as
Medium-gray, finely crystalline, thin-bedded limestone, and brownish-gray and yellowish- to light-gray claystone, calcareous shale, marl, and chalk. Limestone is argillaceous and chalky; claystone is calcareous and contains some clay minerals including kaolinite, montmorillonite, and illite; about 145 m thick.
And thin-bedded it definitely is. Such flaggy strata as these can produce striking patterns and textures.
Apparently the Boquillas Formation owes its origin to sea level rise and the establishment of the Western Interior Seaway. This great swath of seawater not only covered the Big Bend region; it transected this continent from north to south. An ambitious mosasaur or ammonite could have traveled all the way from the Arctic Ocean to the correctly named Gulf of Mexico.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Old Ore Road album.
El Torcal de Antequera is a nature reserve in the Sierra del Torcal mountain range located south of the city of Antequera, in the province of Málaga.
Son atornilladas (por ejemplo las de abajo a la izquierda tienen el tornillo puesto y abajito puse el tornillo solito para que lo aprecien). La punta mide en total 1,5 cm, aunque de en su parte inferior se le hace una cintura, por lo que la sola punta mide un cm (mire la nota para que sea mas grafico) las tengo a 5x1000 :)
Tornillo
Designer: Paolo Bascetta
Paper: 7.5 * 7.5 cm
Units: 30,
Final height: ~ 10 cm
Carambola variation
Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
60 units
5*5 cm
Joined with : nothing
Final height: 5cm