Permian Carbonates of the Guadalupe Mountains, the Delaware and Central Basin

Introduction

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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006 Guadalupe Mts West Face	007 Guadalupe Mts West Face	008 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	009 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	010 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections
011 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	012 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	013 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	014 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	015 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections
016 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	017 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	018 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	019 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections	020 Guadalupe Mts Maps & X Sections
021 Carbonate Response To Base Level	022 Carbonate Response To Base Level	023 Guadalupe Mts X Sections	024 Guadalupe Mts X Sections	025 Guadalupe Mts X Sections
026 Guadalupe Mts X Sections	027 Guadalupe Mts X Sections	028 Guuadalupe Mts	029 Guuadalupe Mts	030 Guuadalupe Mts
031 Guuadalupe Mts	032 Guuadalupe Mts	033 Guuadalupe Mts	034 Guuadalupe Mts	035 West Face
036 West Face	037 West Face	038 West Face	039 West Face	040 Guadalupe Mts West Face
041 Guadalupe Mts West Face	042 Guadalupe Mts West Face	043 West Face	044 West Face	045 West Face
046 West Face	047 West Face	048 West Face	049 West Face	050 Guadalupe Mts Delaware Group
051 Guadalupe Mts Delaware Group	052 Guadalupe Mts Delaware Group	053 Guadalupe Mts Delaware Group	054 Guadalupe Mts Delaware Group	055 Guadalupe Mts Delaware Group

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