ALT Out of the fold pushed toward the surface. An infancy of coarse sandstones, shales, siltstones deposited by vast river deltas. My mineralized groundwater migrated upward. Family leaves swampy, river-dominated environments enters Desert and Sea, Parents tectonic plates shifted, Sea—floods my landscape. Home is compressed remains of microscopic sea creatures, algal mats, chemical precipitates in warm, shallow, tropical marine shelf susceptible to chemical weathering. At Ten years old home is significant stream sinks, underground solution cavities, fissures that rapidly swallow surface water Paul Brookes