There's more to attending an annual meeting than attending technical sessions. When you're visiting Texas, some fascinating and often spectacular geology is usually nearby. For example, consider El Capitán, the showcase of the Guadalupe Mountains in western Texas. Our cover photo is taken from the surface of the Salt Flat Bench, an intra-slope mini-basin formed by slope failure and filled by subsequent turbidity flows -- good examples of "sheet" style turbidite deposition in a confined basinal setting.<br /><em>Photo by AAPG member Lisa Goggin of ChevronTexaco in New Orleans.</em>