There are times when I really wish I had
listened more carefully to the
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stories my grandmother told about her early life
in Texas. What I know about Llano comes mostly from studying geology in
college: the Llano uplift is a geologic dome about 90 miles in diameter made up
of exposures of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks that are surrounded
by Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary strata. This makes a geologist’s heart
go pitty-pat as does the fact that Llanite is a form of granite that is only
found in the Llano Uplift. However, there are lots of interesting things about
Llano that have nothing to do with geology.
