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Sediments shed from the rising mountains to the west formed the Llano Estacado, which was later bypassed by streams such as the Pecos and Canadian Rivers and left standing in bold relief with a relatively level, uneroded caprock surface. Croplands on the plain are irrigated using fossil water pumped from underground aquifers.
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