PBS-SEPM Publication List 1955-2007 Symposium, Guidebooks & Roadlogs 55-1 56-2 57-3 58-4 59-5 60-6 62-7 64-9 67-8 68-11 70-12 71-13 74-14 75-15 75-65 77-16 77-16 78-17 79-18 80-19 81-20 82-21 83-22 84-23 85-24 85-24 RL 86-25 86-26 87-27 88-28

Permian Field Conference, Guadalupe Mountains, 1957 Symposium of the Fort Worth Basin Area, Field Study of the Hill Creek Beds of the Lower Strawn, Southwestern Parker County, TX 1956 Wolfcamp of the Glass Mountains and the Permian Basin, 1957 Cretaceous Platform and Geosyncline, Culberson and Hudspeth Counties, 1958 Sacramento Mountains of Otero County, New Mexico, 1959 Cisco (Upper Pennsylvanian) Facies of Eastland, Stephens, and Young Counties, 1960 & BEG Pub 41 Leonardian Facies, Sierra Diablo Area, West Texas, 1962 The Filling of the Marathon Geosyncline, 1964 The Comanchean (Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Texas) Guadalupian Facies, Apache Mtns, Area, West Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, May No 35, Geology of Apache Mountains Geology of the Southern Quitman Mountains, Trans-Pecos, Texas Robledo Mountains, New Mexico & Franklin Mountains, Texas Lower Cretaceous Shelf, Platform Reef and Basinal Deposits, Southwest Texas-Northern Coahulla Guidebook Geology of the Eagle Mountains Texas Permian Exploration, Stratigraphy & Boundaries Symposium & Field Trip, 1975 WTGS & PBSSEPM Upper Guadalupian- Permian Reef Conference-- Vol 1 Upper Guadalupian- Permian Reef Conference-- Vol 2 Tectonics and Paleozoic Facies of the Marathon Region Guadalupian Delaware Mountain Group Geology of the Finlay Mountains, South-Central Hudspeth County, Texas Marathon-Marfa Region, West Texas Middle & Upper Pennsylvanian System of North Central and West Texas (Outcrop to Subsurface) Geology of the Sierra Diablo and Southern Hueco Mountains, West Texas - Guidebook Lower Permian to Upper Pliocene Carbonate and Clastic Facies, Southern Eastern Shelf Permian Carbonate/Clastic Sedimentology, Guadalupe Mtns. Permian Carbonate/Clastic Sedimentology, Guadalupe Mtns--- Road Log. Lower and Middle Guadalupian Facies, Stratigraphy, and Reservoir Geometries San Andres/Grayburg Formations Guadalupe Mountains New Mexico and Texas Hydrocarbon Reservoir Studies San Andres/Grayburg Formations, Permian Basin The Leonardian Facies in W. Texas and S.E. New Mexico and Guidebook to the Glass Mountains, W. Texas Basin to Shelf Facies Transition of the Wolfcampian Stratigraphy of the Orogrande Basin

88-30 89-31 9091-32 92-33 93-34 94-35 95-36 95-37 96-38 98-40 01-41 02-42 03-43 04-44 05-45 06-46 07-47 08-48

Geologic Guide to Western Escarpment, Guadalupe Mts. The Lower Paleozoic of West Texas and Southern New Mexico: Modern Exploration Concepts Marathon Thrust Belt: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Hydrocarbon Potential-1990 Sequence Stratigraphy, Facies, and Reservoir Geometries of the San Andres, Grayburg, and Queen Formations, Guadalupe Mts. Paleokarst, Karst Related Diagenesis and Reservoir Development: Examples from Ordovician/Devonian Age Strata of West Texas and Mid-Continent Paleokarst, Karst related Diagenesis & Reservoir Development: Examples from CambrianPennsylvanian Age Strata for the Mid-Continent Arbuckle Mts., Oklahoma. Field Guide to the Paleozoic Section of the San Andres Mts. Carbonate Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy: Practical Applications of Carbonate Models San Andres in Outcrop and Sub Surface The Brushy Canyon Play in Outcrop and Subsurface: Concepts and Examples Big Bend Field Trip - Structural Types and Hydrocarbons: Folds, Faults, and Fractures Wolfcampian of West Texas (Permian Basin, Sierra Diablo and Heuco Mountains)- Shelfal and Periplatform Carbonate Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogs The Brushy Canyon Formation (Delaware Mountains), West Texas, Deep-Water Sandstone Reservoir Architecture Cyclostratigraphic Principles for Reservoir Characterization in Carbonates: Examples From the Cretaceous of West-Central Texas-Field Trip & Core Workshop Upper Ordovician Montoya Group Outcrops in the Cooks Range of New Mexico and Southern Franklin Mountains of Texas Cyclostratigraphic Principles for Reservoir Characterization in Carbonates: Examples from the Cretaceous of Central Texas Basinal Facies of the Uppermost Guadalupian: Applicability to Exploration and Development Projects Netherlands Antilles Modern/Ancient Carbonates Field Trip Carbonate Slope Styles Examples from the Permian of the Guadalupe Mountains

Special Publications A 66-10 67 SP 72-14 Abst-84 88-28 96-39 98

Chart-Pennsylvanian Correlation Charts, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, 1960 Carbonate Seminar Precambrian Rocks of the Franklin Mountains - El Paso County, Texas Capitan Reef, New Mexico and Texas: Facts and Questions to aid interpretation and Discussion by Robert J. Dunham, 1972 The Geologic Evolution of the Permian Basin, A Symposium 1984 Permian and Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy, Midland Basin Geology of the Delaware Basin Bob Wards Seminar- Regional Perspective on Exploration and Development for the Permian Basin

Core Workshops 82 83 85 98-40

Core Workshop #1 Core Workshop #2 Core Workshop #3 Core Workshop #4_98-40_DOE Funded Reservoir Characterization Projects

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S. E. R M. PERMIAN FI ELD CONFERENCE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OCTOBER 21-22, 1955 LEADERS P. B. K

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract: Summary:

Geology of the Southern Guadalupe MOUIltaim" Philip B. King

Texas

The Permian Reef Complex Norman D. Newell, et ale

1 4

Correlation Chart W. C. Warren

10

Introduction to Field Trip W. C. Warren

11

Index Map

15

Road Log - First Day

17

Road Log - Second Day

29

History of Geologic Work in the Guadalupe Mountains John M. Hills

36

Permian Correlation and Classification Problems John Emery Adams

43

Stratigraphy of the Brokeoff Mountains, New Mexico Donald W. Boyd

47

The Queen-Grayburg Problem Hugh N. Frenzel

52

Permian Fusulinids of the Guadalupe Mountains Garner L. Wilde

59

Source and Deposition of the Delaware Mountain Sandstone Joseph P. D. Hull, Jr.

63

Cross Sections Floyd Acklin, Jr.

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Wednesday,

7:30 PM Thursday,

7:00 AM

October 30

First National Room, Midland, Pre-Trip discussion October 31 Caravan leaves the Rodeway Inn, I 20 service road at State Highway 349.

9:00 AM

Arrive Squawteat Peak, Bakersfield, Texas STOP I

Squawte at Peak Section

Exam.ine lower part of Fort Lancaster Formation (Section 1). NOTE:

1.

Abundance and variety of fossils.

z.

Percentage of clay and marl vs limestone.

3.

Character of lower contact with Fort Terrett Formation.

10:00 AM

Leave Squawteat Peak

10:45 AM

Arrive roadside park and observation point at top of Lancaster Hill, east of old Fort Lancaster (now open for visitors) on Live Oak Creek. STOP Z

Fort Lancaster Section

Observe and discuss Fort Terrett - Fort Lancaster Formations (Section Z).

The road cut exposures (where most of the section

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but

road is too narrow and

traffic too heavy for safety of a large group.

NOTE:

1.

Location of Fort Terrett - Fort Lancaster contact (Lower Caprock).

2..

Middle and Upper Fort Lancaster caprocks.

3.

Loss of clay and decrease in rn a r l from. Squawteat.

4.

Location (lower Upper Cap) and significance of "Green Be d " soil horizon.

11: 15 AM

Leave Lancaster Hill Eat Lunch Enroute to Next Stop

1:00 PM

Arriye Pandale (Section 3) Mecca of western Val Verde County.

The section was m.easured

in the cliffs on the east side of Howard's Draw about two miles south of Pandale, and on the road south of the Pecos crossing. STOP 3

Pandale Section

It 1 S a ten m.inute walk ac ro s s Howard 1 s to the cliffs (Doe sn 1t look that far!) and the clim.b up to the base of Fort Lancaster is risky.

We do not plan to take the group over there, but

Eager Beavers should have time for a quick look if interested. NOTE:

1.

Location of Fort Terrett - Fort Lancaster contact.

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2.

Virtual absence of marl in Fort Lancaster.

3.

Expansion of middle and upper caprocks (see the Toucasia and caprinid mounds).

4.

Dolomite beds in lower part of middle cap.

1:30 PM

Leave Pandale

2:45 PM

Arrive Pecos River Bridge (Section 4) Park at east end of bridge on Highway 90. STOP 4

Pecos River Section

Observe from bridge the cliff exposures and examine road cut exposure s of Upper Devils River, Del Rio and basal Buda Formations. NOTE:

1.

Upper Devils River rudist beds.

2.

Del Rio - Devils River disconformity (Filled solution cavities in upper Devils River; bored surface; etc. ).

3.

Bored Del Rio siltstone slabs in basal Buda,

3:45 PM

Leave Pecos River Bridge

5:45 PM

Arrive International Bridge, Eagle Pass, Texas Park cars in nearest available lot. near entrance to bridge.

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GEOLOGY OF THE EAGLE MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY TR N5-PECOS TEXAS

Permian Basin Section Guidebook Publication

75-15

The

In1'l!.Tpa1"~1t·"II:T

of Texas at Austin

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED: 1948-1974

1959

Dissertations:

Twiss, Page Charles: Geology of Van Horn Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas.

1949

1962

Bloomer, Richard Rodier; Geology of the Christmas and Rosillos Mountains, Brewster County, Texas. Jointly supervised with J. T. Lonsdale.

Bridges, Luther Wadsworth, II; Geology of Mina Plomosas area, Mexico.

1950 Franklin Wallace; Geology of the Pico area, de Coahuila,

Fria Jointly

Moon, Charles Gardley; Geology of quadrangle, Brewster supervised with J. T. Lonsdale.

Mexico. James Ross; Geology of and vicinity, Trans-Pecos Texas.

1952

1965

Brand, John Paul; Cretaceous of Llano Estacado of 'Texas. Jointly Supervised with J. T. Lonsdale.

John Trans-Pecos Texas.

1953

Chinati

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of

1974

William Noel; Geology Cathedral Mountain quadrangle, Brewster County, Texas. Jointly supervised with J. T. Lonsdale. Cecil Charles; Geology of quadrangle, Trans-Pecos Texas.

of Presidio

Dietrich, Presidio County, Texas.

Parker, Travis Jay; Model studies of salt-dome tectonics. Jointly supervised with M. K. Hubbert.

Rix,

Mountains

area,

Reaser, Donald Geology of Chihuahua and Texas.

Peak Merrill, Robert . Geomorphology of terrace remnants of the Greybull River, Horn Basin, northwestemWyoming.

1955 Miller, Daniel Newton, Jr.: Petrology of Pierce Canyon redbeds: Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico. Jointly supervised with R. L. Folk.

Theses:

1950 1958 David areas, Presidio

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Jeff Texas.

Peloncillo and ";"o",.S",n'OWT

of Kent Draw

Mountains and of

8

of Salt Draw Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas6

Schneider, Thomas; Geology of Dillahunty Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Major, Rufus Orville; Geology of Toyah Field, Reeves County, Texas.

Slocum, Gilbert; Gypsite of Toyah Quadrangle, Reeves County, Texas.

Mayo, Robert Truitt; Stratigraphy of eastern half Gentry Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Tipton, William Everett; Geologic structure of northern Hurd Draw and southern Foster quadrangles, Culberson County, Texas.

Nogues, De Witt Collier; Areal Geology of the Nevill Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Travis, Everett Joyce; Areal geology of Harral Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Renaud, Charles Benham; Geology of China Draw Area, Culberson and Reeves counties, Texas.

Walter, Joseph Charles, Jr.; Paleontology of Rustler formation, Culberson County, Texas.

Richardson, Everett Ellsworth; Geology of northern Boracho Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Wilson, John Ewing; Geology of Rustler Spring area, Culberson County, Texas.

Zimmermann, James Blaisdell; Jeff conglomerate, northeastern Davis Mountains, Texas.

Winter, Claud Victor; Geologic structure of part of Boracho Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

1951

Woollett, LeRoy Andrew; Geology of southern half of the ·China and Dillahunty quadrangles, .Culberson and Reeves counties, Texas.

Dehlinger, Martin Emery; .Geology of northern Hurd Draw and Boracho Quadrangles, Culberson County, Texas.

Zabriskie, Walter Edward; Geology of northern Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, Texas.

Edson, Dwight James, Jr.: Comanche Series, Lancaster Hill, Crockett County, Texas.

1952

Fuqua, Frank Jones; Comanche stratigraphy of Hurd Draw Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Baker, Gus Bowman; structure of northeastern Chispa Quadrangle, Culberson and Jeff Davis counties, Texas.

Halamicek, William Arnold, Jr.; Geology of Toyah Field and Burchard quadrangles,Reeves County, Texas.

Blankenship, AsaLee, Jr.; Areal geology of Painthorse Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas

Hewitt, Edward Ringwood, II; The Cretaceous geology of the northeastern Chispa Quadrangle, TransPecos Texas.

Carleton, Alfred Townes, Jr.; Structural history of part of Kent Station Quadrangle, Culberson and Jeff Davis counties, Texas.

Holt, Charles Lee Roy, Jr.; Geology of Kent Station area, Culberson and Jeff Davis counties, Texas.

Cochrum, Arthur Leroy; Structural history of northern Hurd Draw and southern Foster quadrangles, Culberson County, Texas.

Humble, Emmett Arl; Cenozoic history of northeastern Chispa Quadrangle, Trans-Pecos Texas.

Craig, Dexter Hildreth; Stanolind stratigraphic test well, Gozar Quadrangle, Reeves County, Texas.

Kent, Leon Alfred; Structure and stratigraphy of Nevill Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Hall, Ward Lee; Geology of Maverick area, Culberson and Reeves counties, Texas.

Levin, Max; Geologic structure of part of Hurd Draw Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Hay-Roe, Hugh; Structural geology of Wylie Mountains, Culberson County, Texas.

Motsch, Aaron Sherrill; Castiles, Culberson County, Texas.

Holasek, Raymond Joseph; Geology of Gozar area, Reeves County, Texas.

Owen, Donald Eugene; Geologic structure of Seven Heart Gap, Culberson County, Texas. Porter, Robert Bowden; Geology of west half of Foster Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas.

Howell, Richard Shelby, Jr.: Quaternary geology of Kent Quadrangle, Culberson, Reeves, and Jeff Davis counties, Texas.

Rix, Cecil Charles; Petrography, northern Davis Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas.

Hutchison, J. L., Jr.; Stratigraphy of Quadrangle, Culberson County, Texas. 9

Harral

Texas. ""'~L&JI...II.IL.lI.""',LIl. Texas

of Painthorse Texas. n.o."I....,.n-.:T

of Red Bluff area, of Valentine

Robert area, Jeff Davis ..;..Q....,•• d'"'I>d'1r'lllT

of Red Bluff Lake area, Texas.

1954

Texas. of Presidio-Ocotillo Trans-Pecos Texas.

area, and water Ouacranate. Culberson

..:...o.r... R""tn>lI,n,

structure of eastern Trans-

William; Culberson Texas. ~"t'l"o:Ii"t"lln'l"

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Field Trip Chairman's Message.

vi

Guidebook Editor's Preface ...

vi

PBS-SEPM President's Message

vii

Field Trip Committees

vii

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viii

PBS-SEPM Officers and Committee Chairmen Field Trip Leaders . . . .

ix

Poster Session Abstracts

x

Contributors

xii

...

xvii

Landsat Imagery

ROAD LOGS xviii

Field Trip Index Map . . . . . . . . Road Log from Midland to Alpine Road Log Map . . . .

4

Day One Road Log

5

Road Log Map . . .

16

Day Two Road Log

17

TECHNICAL ARTICLES MARATHON AREA Leonardian Series (Permian), Glass Mountains, West Texas

Charles A. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

25

Preliminary Report on Proposed Leonardian Lectostratotype Section, Glass Mountains, West Texas (Reprint: 1981 Permian Basin Section, SEPM)

John M. Cys

35

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Stratigraphy, Lithofacies, and Sedimentation of Lower Permian Carbonates of the Leonard Mountain Area, Glass Mountains, Western Texas (Reprint: Permian Basin Section, SEPM) Romeo M. Flores and Terry L. McMillan

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47

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57

Stratigraphy and Deposition of the Cathedral Mountain Formation (Leonardian), Glass Mountains, West Texas

E. A. Measures Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Cathedral Mountain and Road Canyon Formations, Glass Mountains, West Texas Bruce R. Wardlaw and Richard E. Grant .

63

Leonardian Plant-Bearing Beds from the Del Norte Mountains , West Texas D. M. Rohr, R. A. Davis, S. H. Mamay, and J. M. Miller ....

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PBS-SEPM President' s Letter .

VII

Editor's Preface

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Dedication

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RO AD LOGS Synopsis of the Late Paleozoic Depositional History of the Orogrande Basin, New Mexico and Texas Magell P. Candelaria . . . . Field Trip Index Map

6

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Road Log from Midland to Van Horn Day One (Part I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Road Log from Van Horn to EI Paso Day One (Part 2) .

II

Road Log from El Paso to Las Cruces Day One (Part 3) .

25

Road Log from Las Cruces to Dona Ana Mountains: Roundtr ip Day Two .

35

Road Log from Las Cruces to Alamogordo, Tularosa. La Luz and Cloudcroft Day Three

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TECHNICAL PAPERS A Preliminary Analysis of the Permian (Wolfcamp) Powwow Conglomerate of the Diablo Plateau , Trans-Pecos, Texas David V. LeMo ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1 Depositional Environments of Lower Permian (Wolfcamp) Marginal Marine Mixed Carbonate-Clastic System, Hueco Mountains. West Texas James C . Pol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Depositional History of Virgilian Phylloid Algal Mound Complex, Hueco Mountains, EI Paso County. Texas James C. Pol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

65

Depositional Patterns of Upper Pennsylvanian Calclithites and Associated Facies: Hueco Mountains, West Texas James C . Pol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 67 Measured Sections in the Pennsylvanian and Permian of the Sacramento Mountains (Fresnal Canyon) and the Hueco Mountains James Lee Wilson and Clifton F. Jordan , Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

75

Late Paleozoic - Early Mesozoic Rifting in Southern New Mexico and orthern Mexico: Controls on Subsequent Platform Development James Lee Wilson and Clifton F. Jordan, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Sedimentological and Stratigraphical Relationships of the Panther Seep Formation. Southern San Andres Mountains. New Mexico David A. Schoderbek and Henry S. Chafetz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Wolfcamp ian (Lower Permian) Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments in The Dona Ana and Robledo Mountains , South-Central New Mexico Greg H. Mack, W. C. J ame s and William R. Seager .

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Depositional and Diagenetic Facies in Marine-Cemented Phylloid Algal Reefs, Labrocita Formation (Wolfcampian, Permian) , orthern Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico S. J. Mazzullo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Field Trip Leader's Note

iii

PBS-SEPM President's Message

iv

PBS-SEPM Officers, 1987-88

vi

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRIP Geology of the Western Escarpment, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas Lloyd C. Pray

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ROAD LOGS AND TRAIL GUIDE Geologic Guide for U.S. Highway 62 (180) from El Paso to Southern Guadalupe Mountains at the Junction of U.S. 62-180 with Texas 54 from Van Horn Lloyd C. Pray

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Geologic Guide from National Park Road Entrance to Williams Ranch Lloyd C. Pray

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Trail Guide for Day 1: Shumard to Bone Canyon Traverse C. Rossen, P. J. Lehmann, and J. F. Sarg

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THE LOWER PALE ZOIC OF WEST TEXA AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO 'O DE NEX LORA 10 co CEPTS PBS-SEPM RESEARCH SEMlNAR MAY 17, 1989 FIELD SEMINAR MAY 18 - 20,1989

TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Letter

iv

Chairman's Message

iv

Editors' Preface

v

PBS-SEPM Officers and Committee Chairmen

vi

Research and Field Seminar Committees

vii

Memorials John Moore Hills Hugh N. Frenzel

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Rousseau Haynor Flower David V. LeMone

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TECHNICAL PAPERS

CAMBRIAN AND ORDOVICIAN SYSTEMS Depositional Facies and Provenance of the Bliss Formation (Cambro-Ordovician), Southern New Mexico and West Texas J. Chris Stageman

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Sequence Stratigraphy of the Tabosa Basin-Related Paleozoic Sediments of the Franklin Mountains, EI Paso County, Texas and Dona Ana County, New Mexico David V. LeMone

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The Ellenburger - EI Paso Connection: Lower Ordovician Shelf Carbonates Russell E. Clemons

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Recognition of Second, Third, and Fourth/Fifth Order Scales of Cyclicity in the EI Paso Group and Their Relation to Genesis and Architecture of Ellenburger Reservoirs Charles Kerans and F. J. Lucia

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Geochemistry and Dolomite Textures in the Ellenburger Group (Lower Ordovician), West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico Indicate Multiple Episodes of Dolomitization (abstract) Joachim E. Amthor and Gerald Friedman

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Formational and Zonal Subdivisions of the Ellenburger Group (Lower Ordovician), Southern Midland Basin, Texas S. J. Mazzullo

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Composite Classification of Fractured and Brecciated Carbonate Rocks Examples from the Ordovician Ellenburger Group, West Texas (reprint) B. T. Ijirigho and J. F. Schreiber, Jr..............................................................................................•..... 123 Contrasting Styles of Reservoir Heterogeneity in Ellenburger Group Carbonates, West Texas (abstract) Charles Kerans, M. H. Holt and Noel Tyler

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Petrophysical Character of Ellenburger Karst Facies: Stateline (Ellenburger) Field, Lea County, Southeastern New Mexico Joachim E. Amthor and Gerald M. Friedman

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Depositional Setting of the Ellenburger ~ Langley Field, Lea County, New Mexico T. D. Verseput

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Tectono-Structural Evolution and Hydrocarbon Distribution in Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs, Permian Basin, West Texas B. Tajinere Ijirigho

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Ellenburger Reservoir Development at Midland Farms and Inez Fields Andrews County, Texas C. E. Mear

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SILURIAN AND DEVONIAN SYSTEMS Stratigraphy, Lithofacies, and Depositional Models of the Fusselman Formation, Central Midland Basin Richard C. Geesaman and Alan J. Scott

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Depositional Variations in the Fusselman Formation, Central Midland Basin, West Texas Timothy R. Garfield and Mark W. Longman

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Fusselman Reservoir Development at Flying W Field, Winkler County, Texas Charles E. Mear

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Geologic Controls on Reservoir Development in Silurian and Devonian Carbonates, Northern Midland Basin, Texas Louis J. Mazzullo, S.. J. Mazzullo and Terry E. Durham

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Regional Depositional Setting of the Thirtyone Formation (Devonian) in the Northern Midland Basin and Northern Central Basin Platform, West Texas Tim Speer

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ~ Chairperson's Message

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WTGS I PBS-SEPM Officers and Committee Chairmen

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Research and Field Seminar Committees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii Dedication Hugh N. Frenzel Sue T. Reid

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Structural Geology and Petroleum Exploration of the Marathon Thrust Belt, West Texas Timothy A. Reed and David L. Strickler

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Surface to Subsurface Structure and Stratigraphy of the Marathon Fold Belt, Brewster, Pecos, and Terrell Counties, Texas Garner L. Wilde

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Local Stratigraphy and Structure Radiolarian Biostratigraphy: Evidence for an Early Mississippian Basin-wide Hiatus at the Caballos-Tesnus Boundary, Marathon Basin, Texas Paul Noble

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Volcanism Recorded in Tesnus Formation, Marathon Uplift, Texas Nobuhiro Imoto and Earle F. McBride

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Condordant, Discordant, and Transitional Clastic Injection Structures in the Tesnus Formation, Marathon Basin, Trans-Pecos Texas Timothy N. Diggs and Earle F. McBride

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A Tectonic Origin for Microfaults in the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Tesnus Formation, Marathon Basin, Trans-Pecos Texas Timothy N. Diggs

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Stratigraphy and Structure, Gap Tank Area, Southwestern Pecos County, Texas Garner L. Wilde

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Remote Sensing Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Image of the Marathon Mountains Robert L. Borger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Committee Field Trip Committees PBS-SEPM President's Letter General Chairman's Letter

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FIRST DAY Road Log: First Day Midland, Texas to Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico Via Mentone, Texas and Carlsbad, New Mexico

L. James Weber, Jr

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High Cyclicity within Shelf-Margin and Slope Strata of the Upper San Andres Sequence, Last Chance Canyon

Mark D. Sonnenfeld

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SECOND DAY High Frequency Cyclicity and Regional Depositional Patterns of the Grayburg Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico C. Kerans and H. S. Nance

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Road Log: Second Day Carlsbad, New Mexico to Algerita Escarpment Via Dark Canyon L. James Weber, Jr., C. Kerans, and H. S. Nance

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THIRD DAY Road Log: Third Day Grayburg Formation on the Shattuck Valley Wall C. Kerans andH. S. Nance

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TECHNICAL PAPERS Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle San Andres Formation in Last Chance Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico C. E. Wilkinson, Jr., S. M. Ritter, L. L. Lambert, and G. L. Wilde Grayburg Formation (Permian-Guadalupian): Comparison of Reservoir Characteristics and Sequence Stratigraphy in the Northwest Central Basin Platform with Outcrops in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico Robert F. Lindsay

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Depositional Setting and Reservoir Characteristics of Lower Queen (Permian, Guadalupian) Sandstones, Keystone (Colby) Field, Winkler County, Texas

James B. Vanderhill

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Depositional and Reservoir Properties of the Upper Queen Formation at Concho Bluff and Concho Bluff North Fields, West Texas (Abstract only) ~

A riel M alicse, Jim M azzullo, and Ben Price

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New Exploration Technologies for Identification of New Guadalupian Production in the Northwestern Shelf Area of the Permian Basin, Southeastern New Mexico

Arthur J. Pyron

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DAY ONE: Midland to El Paso to Scenic

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ROAD LOG-PART TWO: Scenic Drive- Sequence Stratigraphy of the El Paso Franklin Mountains, Texas

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DA Y TWO: Ordovician Karst System Franklin Mountains, El Paso County, Texas ROAD LOG-PART ONE: McKelligon Canyon Area

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LOG-PART TWO: West side Franklin Mountains

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DAY THREE: Anthony Gap Silurian Karst Northern Franklin Mountains, Texas and New Mexico ROAD LOG-PART ONE: El Paso to Anthony's Gap to Midland

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ROAD LOG REFERENCES

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A Review of Cambro-Ordovicain Breccias in North America L. P.L. R.D. K.

and Richard G. Geesaman

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Paleokarst Facies Characterization and Prediction of Reservoir Properties

Mateu Esteban

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Origin and Recognition of Fractures, Breccias and Sediment Fills in Paleocave-Reservoir Networks Robert G. Loucks and C. Robertson

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Characterization and Classification of West Texas Ellenburger Reservoirs

Mark H.

and Charles Kerans

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Sequence Boundary Control on Hydrocarbon Reservoir Development, Ellenburger A. .

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Third-Order Sequence Boundaries and Frequency Cycle Patterns in Lower Ordovician Platform Carbonates, El Paso Group (Texas): Implications for Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

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Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Facies of the Siluro-Devonian Interval of the Northern Permian Basin fIl.Ii'Yi1I!IAI",.,.,."C.

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Paleokarst and Karst-Associated 1-D"rtrrlAf'dJl·1I"hr~n Reservoirs in the Fusselman Mazzullo Louis Mazzullo The Fusselman Formation and Dona Ana New Mexico David V.. LeMone

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Paleo-Cave Reservoirs in the Wristen Formation at Emerald Field, Gaines-Yoakum Counties, Texas Entzminger and Robert G.. Loucks

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An Example of a Karsted Silurian Reservoir, Buckwheat Field, Howard County, Texas Troschinetz

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Paleokarst Interpretation for Crittendon (Silurian) Field, Winkler County, Texas Troschinetz

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Karst-related Diagenesis and Reservoir Development in the Arbuckle Group, Paschall #2 Core, Wilburton Field, Oklahoma Debbie M. Bliefnick

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Identification of Subaerial Unconformities in the Subsurface- An Example From the Lower-Middle Ordovician of the Michigan Basin Gregory C.. Nadon and George L . Smith

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Controls of Eustacy and Associated Diagenesis on Reservoir Heterogeneity in Lower Ordovician, Upper Knox Carbonates, Appalachians Isabel P. Montanez

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Diagenesis and Porosity Development Beneath the Pre-KaskaskiaIliarly Devonian) Interregional Unconformity, Northwest Illinois Basin John M. Kruger

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Sulfuric Acid Oil-Field Karst Carol A. Hill

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Structural and Tectonic Development of McKelligon Canyon, Southern Franklin Mountains, EI Paso County, Texas John K. Stacy, Frances E . Julian and David V. LeMone

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PALEOKARST, KARST-RELATED DIAGENESIS, RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT, AND EXPLORATION CONCEPTS: Examples from the Paleozoic Section of the Southern Mid-Continent

TABLE OF CONTENTS General Chairperson's Message PBS-SEPM President's Letter PBS-SEPM Executive Committee 1993 Field Trip Committee

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Field Trip Road Logs Day 1: Richard D. Fritz, Zuhair Al-Shaieb, James L. Wilson, Pat Medlock, Robert F. Lindsay, Mary Van Der Loop, John McCarty

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Technical Papers The Lower Ordovician of the Southwestern United States James L. Wilson

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Arbuckle Group (Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician) Shallowing-Upward Parasequences and Sequences, Southern Oklahoma Robert F. Lindsay and Kathy M. Koskelin........................................................................... 45 An Overview of the Factors Contributing to the Evolution and Spatial Distribution of Reservoir Properties in Knox Cyclic Carbonates Isabel P. Montanez and Ann B. Stefani

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The Woodford Shale (Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian) and Associated Phosphate Nodules, South-Central and Southeastern Oklahoma Suzan E. Siy........................................................................................................................... .. 85 Biostratigraphy of the Timbered Hills and.Arbuckle Groups, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma James H. Stitt and James D. Loch

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Extended Abstracts Royer and Butterly Dolomites in the Arbuckle Mountains: A Petrographic and Geochemical Synthesis Guoqiu Gao and Lynton S. Land

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Field Trip Road Logs Day 1: Day 2:

Hembrillo Basin and White Sands FrankE. Kottlowski, RobertF. Lindsay, David V. LeMoneand Gerilyn S. Soreghan Alamogordo to Rhodes Canyonand Ruidoso FrankE. Kottlowski, David ~ LeMone, RobertF. Lindsay, Gerilyn S. Soreghan and StevenL. Bachtel

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Technical Papers San Andres Mountains Stratigraphy Revisited FrankE. Kottlowski and David ~ LeMone

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Mississippian CarbonatePlatformProfilesand Preliminary Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation, San Andres and Sacramento Mountains, South-Central New Mexico StevenL. Bachteland StevenL. Dorobek

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Missourian Strata of the NorthernSacramento Mountains and Orogrande Basin,New Mexico William D. Raatz, StephenR. Schutterand JamesLee Wilson

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Upper Pennsylvanian Facies and Cyclostratigraphy in Rhodesand Hembrillo Canyons, San Andres Mountains GerilynS. Soreghan

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Environments of Deposition and Patternsof Cyclicity of the PantherSeepFormation, Southern San Andres Mountains DavidA. Schoderbek

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San Andres SequenceFramework, Guadalupe Mountains: Implications for San AndresType Sectionand Subsurface Reservoirs Charles Keransand StephenC. Ruppel

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SequenceStratigraphy and FaciesAnalysis of the PermianSan AndresFormation (LowerGuadalupian), NorthwestShelf,PermianBasin Troy B. Beserraand StevenL. Dorobek

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San Andres FormationType and Reference Sections Revisited Robert F. Lindsay

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Summaryof the MineralResources in the San Andresand OrganMountains, South-Central New Mexico Virginia T. McLemore

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White Sands NationalMonument, New Mexico David V. LeMone

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TECHNICAL PAPERS

Cambro-Lower Ordovician (Sauk) facies and sequences: case histories from eastern North America. Gerald M. Friedman

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Stratigraphy and cyclicity of the Paradise Formation (Late Mississippian), Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico. David J. Sivils

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Slope Readjustment on a carbonate ramp and its effects on sequence development: Mississippian ramp-to-basin transitions of south-central New Mexico. Steve Bachtel and Steve Dorobek

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Generalizations based on numbers of Pennsylvanian cycles in the southwestern USA. James Lee Wilson

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Early Permian submarine canyon excavation and infill along the margin of the Diablo Platform (Sierra Diablo, West Texas). William M. Fitchen

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Sequence stratigraphic framework, high-frequency cyclicity and three-dimensional heterogeneity: Grayburg formation, Brokeoff Mountains, New Mexico. Robert J. Barnaby and W. Bruce Ward

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Spatial distribution of porosity and permeability in the San Andres formation, Yoakum County, Texas. Steve Henderson, E. D. Lea, and G. B. Asquith

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Interpretation model applying geological enhancement (abs.). Duane D. Stief and Dale H. May

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Determining carbonate pore types from petrophysical logs. George Asquith

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Practical applications of sea level fluctuations, paleontology, paleogeography, and environment of deposition applied to the search for small (but numerous) stratigraphic traps (ext. abs.). Al Reid, S. A. Tomlinson Reid, D. A. Walker, and Michael A. Mosley

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Application of chemostratigraphy and multivariate statistical analysis to differentiating bounding stratigraphic surfaces. Richard A. Eisenberg and Paul M. Harris............................................. 83 Heterogeneity within carbonate reservoirs - guidelines from modern analogs. P. Mitch Harris

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Numerical petrography and flow unit definition in Reeves San Andres field, Yoakum County, Texas. H.M. Corinne Danielli

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Calcite, aragonite, and bimineralic ooids in the Missourian (Upper Pennsylvanian) strata of Kansas: stratigraphic and geographic patterns of variation. Thomas J. Algeo and Blaine A. Watson............................................. 141 Latitudinal variations in depositional and diagenetic patterns in Upper Permian (Guadalupian) strata of the Northern Hemisphere (abs.). Peter A. Scholle, Lars Stemmerik, and Dana S. Ulmer-Scholle

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Building the 3-D jigsaw puzzle: applications of carbonate sequence stratigraphy to 3-D reservoir characterization, Permian Basin, USA (abs.). Scott W. Tinker............................................................................ 177 Sea level and the Capitan Reef, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas - a continuing controversy (abs.). Lloyd C. Pray.............................................................................. 179 Carbonate sequence stratigraphy - a summary and perspective. J. F. Sarg, L. J. Weber, and J. R. Markello....................................... 181 Carbonate stratigraphic research: evolution and future directions. Charles Kerans

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An interdisciplinary reservoir characterization study to maximize reservoir performance, North Penwell (San Andres) Unit, Ector Co., Texas. W.T. Siemers, D.R. Prezbindowski, V.L. Skinnider, L.C. Maple, M. G. Gerard, M.E. Nagaty, and J.J. Howard

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Carbonate sequence stratigraphy on the development geology scale: outcrop and subsurface examples from the Permian Grayburg Formation, Permian Basin. Robert F. Lindsay

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Biostratigraphy of uppermost Ordovician through Devonian depositional sequences in the Permian Basin, West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. James E. Barrick.......................................................................... 207 Wolfcampian cyclothems and sequences in Kansas: an analysis of some Permian Basin correlatives. Sal J. Mazzullo, C. S. Teal, and C. A. Burtnett

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Sequence architecture of shelf crest to outer shelf facies of the Yates Formation, Slaughter Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico. David A. Osleger

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High-resolution sequence stratigraphy: some concepts and applications from eastern Spain. Luis Pomar

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Depositional and diagenetic control of reservoir quality and continuity of the Pennsylvanian Caddo Limestone. L. James Weber

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