Publication: West Texas State University
Author: Gerald Meeka Etchieson, Roberta Speer, & Jack T. Hughes
Date of Publication: June 1978
PDF File: Etchieson-et-al.-Archeological-Investigations-in-the-Truscott-Reser.pdf
Copyright Info: Unclassified
Description
During 1977 West Texas State University conducted archeological investigations at the proposed Bateman Pumping Station, Bateman to Truscott pipeline, and Truscott Brine Lake in Salt Source Areas VIII and X of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wichita River Chloride Control Project in King and Knox counties, Texas. The eastward-flowing Wichita River drainage in northcentral Texas crosses a land of moderate relief developed on widely eroded Permian redbeds mantled in places with thin Quaternary deposits. The project area is in the Rolling Plains physiographic region and the Mesquite Plains biotic district. It is a seemingly inhospitable region of extreme temperatures, low rainfall, and generally saline groundwater, with mesquite and juniper the main vegetation.