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Permian
Carbonates of the Guadalupe Mountains, the Delaware and Central
Basin
Third Page of
Permian Basin Gallery
This section is designed
to introduce geologists to the Permian Basin carbonates, evaporites
and clastics from shallow water to deepwater settings exposed in
the Guadalupe Mountains and buried in the adjacent subsurface. While
all geologic occurences of carbonate and clastic sediments have
a "unique" character imposed by the specifics of the depositional
setting for that location and time, they also carry many common
signals. This gallery of photographs should help you identify common
and different signals for the carbonates you can see in the Holocene
and the ancient. Most of these photographs were taken by Christopher
Kendall while making field observations of the Permian Basin carbonate
shelf and reef margin complex, probably the most well known and
most thoroughly studied ancient carbonate platforms of the world.
These carbonates have accumulated here through the Permian in this
setting which at its inception was the Tobosa Basin. The sedimentary
fill has responded to changing sea level and productivity.
Most of the materials
and text used on this site are based on the publications and the
compendium of information assembled by Christopher
Kendall and colleagues he has worked with over the years. Some
of the maps and diagrams presented in the below are from the publications
linked to the page.
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