Bryan Esterly, CFA leads standards development for the Infrastructure sector at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). His role includes research and collaboration with industry and investors to drive the standardization of financially material sustainability information in corporate reporting.
OUTWASH PLAINS. The large quantities of water that flowed from the melting ice deposited various kinds of materials, the most important of which is called glacial outwash. Outwash plains made up of outwash deposits are characteristically flat and consist of layers of sand and other fine sediments. till plain is composed of unsorted material (till) of all sizes with much clay, an outwash plain is mainly stratified (layered and sorted) gravel and sand. The till plain has a gently undulating to hilly surface; the outwash is flat or very gently undulating where it is a thin veneer on the underlying till.
The Rolling Plains. Lying west of the Cross Timbers, the Rolling Plains is the largest geographic section within the North Central Plains region. It is sometimes called the Lower Plains because of the higher Great Plains to the west. The Rolling Plains stretch for about 300 miles from the northernmost to the southernmost point, this geographic section is just under 200 miles across. The North Central Plains A Ranching and Farming Region The North Central Plains actually start in Canada and extend across the midsection of the United States before ending in Texas.