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Selected Geologic Bibliography of the Permian Rocks of the Guadalupe Mountains, the Permian Basin, and Adjacent Areas of New Mexico and West Texas


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If you know of references that contain errors or have been omitted from this bibliography, please send the full, correct citation to: Peter.Scholle@nmt.edu


  1. ACHAUER, C.W., 1969, Origin of Capitan formation, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 53, p. 2314-2323.
  2. ACHAUER, C.W., 1971, Origin of Capitan Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas: Reply: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 55, p. 313-315.
  3. ACKERS, A.L., DECHICCHIS, R., and SMITH, R.H., 1930, Hendrick field, Winkler County, Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 14, p. 923-944.
  4. ADAMS, J., 1930, Origin of oil and its reservoir in Yates pool, Pecos County, Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 14, p. 705-717.
  5. ADAMS, J.E., 1935, Upper Permian stratigraphy of west Texas Permian basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 19, p. 1010-1022.
  6. ADAMS, J.E., 1936, Oil pool of open reservoir type: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 20, p. 780-796.
  7. ADAMS, J.E., 1940, Structural development, Yates area, Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 24, p. 134-142.
  8. ADAMS, J.E., 1944, Depth control of sedimentation in the Permian basin: Tulsa Geological Society Digest, v. 12, p. 67-69.
  9. ADAMS, J.E., 1944, Upper Permian Ochoa series of Delaware basin, west Texas and southeast New Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 28, p. 1596-1625.
  10. ADAMS, J.E., 1965, Stratigraphic-tectonic development of Delaware basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 49, p. 2140-2148.
  11. ADAMS, J.E., 1967, Semi-cyclicity in the Castile evaporite, in Elam, J.G., and Chuber, S., eds., Cyclic sedimentation in the Permian Basin: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society, p. 197-203.
  12. ADAMS, J.E., 1972, Semi-cyclicity in the Castile anhydrite, in Elam, J.G., and Chuber, S., eds., Cyclic Sedimentation in the Permian Basin [2nd ed.]: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society, p. 196-202.
  13. ADAMS, J.E., and FRENZEL, H.N., 1950, Capitan barrier reef, Texas and New Mexico: Journal of Geology, v. 58, p. 289-312.
  14. ADAMS, J.E., and others, 1939, Standard Permian section of North America: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 23, p. 1673-1681.
  15. ADAMS, J.E., and RHODES, M.L., 1960, Dolomitization by seepage refluxion: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 44, p. 1912-1920.
  16. ADAMS, J.W., 1985, Historic Guadalupe Pass, in Cunningham, B.K., and Hedrick, C.L., eds., Permian Carbonate/Clastic Sedimentology, Guadalupe Mountains — Analog for Shelf-Basin Reservoirs: Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM 85-24, p. 152-155.
  17. ADAMS, J.W., 1988, Historic Guadalupe Pass, in Reid, S.T., Bass, R.O., and Welch, P., eds., Guadalupe Mountains Revisited, Texas and New Mexico [1988 Field Seminar]: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 88-84, p. 191-196.
  18. ADAMS, J.E., CHENEY, M.G., DeFORD, R.K., DICKEY, R.I., DUNBAR, C.O., HILLS, J.M., KING, R.E., LLOYD, E.R., MILLER, A.K., and NEEDHAM, C.E., 1939, Standard Permian section of North America: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 23, p. 1673-1681.
  19. ADAMS, J.W., HAWLEY, J.W., PRAY, L.C., and LOVE, D.W., 1993, Second-day road log, from Carlsbad to Whites City, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Salt Flat, Washington Ranch and return to Carlsbad, in Love, D.W., Hawley, J.W., Kues, B.S., Adams, J.W., Austin, G.S., and Barker, J.M., eds., Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas: New Mexico Geological Society, 44th Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 43-67.
  20. ADAMS, J.W., LOVE, D.W., and HAWLEY, J.W., 1993, Third-day road log, from Carlsbad to Dark Canyon, Last Chance Canyon, Sitting Bull Falls, Rocky Arroyo and return to Carlsbad, in Love, D.W., Hawley, J.W., Kues, B.S., Adams, J.W., Austin, G.S., and Barker, J.M., eds., Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas: New Mexico Geological Society, 44th Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 69-86.
  21. ADAMS, S.S., 1969, Bromine in the Salado Formation, Carlsbad potash district, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Bulletin 93, 122 p.
  22. ADAMS, S.S., 1970, Ore controls, Carlsbad potash district, southeast New Mexico, in Rau, J.L., and Dellwig, L.F., eds., Third Symposium on Salt: Cleveland, OH, Northern Ohio Geological Society, p. 120-152.
  23. AHR, W.M., and BERG, R.R., 1982, Deepwater evaporites in the Bell Canyon Formation, Delaware basin, west Texas, in Handford, C.R., Loucks, R.G., and Davies, G.R., eds., Depositional and Diagenetic Spectra of Evaporites — A Core Workshop [Calgary]: Tulsa, OK, SEPM Core Workshop No. 3, p. 305-323.
  24. ALEXANDER, J.I.D., and WATKINSON, A.J., 1989, Microfolding in the Permian Castile Formation: an example of geometric systems in multilayer folding, Texas and New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 742-750.
  25. ALGEO, T.J., 1992, Continent-scale wrenching of southwestern Laurussia during the Ouachita-Marathon orogeny and tectonic escape of the Llano block, in Lindsay, R.F., and Reed, C.L., eds., Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to Permian Basin Reservoirs: Outcrop Analogs in the Caballo and Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication No. 92-92, p. 115-131.
  26. ALLEN, R., FLATT, D., and WASHBURN, J., eds., 1982, Delaware Basin Field Trip Guidebook: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 82-76, 158 p.
  27. ALEXANDER, J.I.D., and WATKINSON, A.J., 1989, Microfolding in the Permian Castile Formation: an example of geometric systems in multilayer folding, Texas and New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 742-750.
  28. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1981, Deep-seated salt dissolution in the Delaware Basin, in Wells, S.G., and Lambert, W., eds., Environmental Geology and Hydrology in New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Special Publication No. 10, p. 133-145.
  29. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1982, A long geoclimatic record from the Permian: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 87, p. 7285-7294.
  30. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1982, Deformation-dissolution potential of bedded salt, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site, Delaware Basin, New Mexico, in Lutze, W., ed., Scientific Basis for Radioactive Waste Management, V: New York, NY, Elsevier Science Publ. Co., p. 449-458.
  31. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1984, Orbital forcing of evaporite sedimentation, in Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G., and Saltzman, B., eds., Milankovitch and Climate, Part 1: NATO ASI Series C, Vol. 126: Dordrecht (Netherlands), D. Reidel Publishing Co., p. 147-162.
  32. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1986, The varve microcosm: propagator of cyclic bedding: Paleoceanography, v. 1, p. 373-382.
  33. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1991, Solar variability captured in climatic and high-resolution paleoclimatic records: a geologic perspective, in Sonett, C.P., Giampapa, M.S., and Mathews, M.S., eds., The Sun in Time: Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona Press, p. 543-561.
  34. ANDERSON, R.Y., 1993, The Castile as a "nonmarine" evaporite, in Love, D.W., Hawley, J.W., Kues, B.S., Adams, J.W., Austin, G.S., and Barker, J.M., eds., Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas: New Mexico Geological Society Forty-fourth Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 12-13.
  35. ANDERSON, R.Y., and DEAN, W.E., 1995, Filling the Delaware Basin < hydrologic and climatic controls on the Upper Permian Castile Formation varved evaporite, in Scholle, P.A., Peryt, T.M., and Ulmer-Scholle, D.S., eds., The Permian of North Pangea: Springer-Verlag, Sedimentary basins and economic resources, p. 61-78.
  36. ANDERSON, R.Y., DEAN, W.E., KIRKLAND, D.W., and SNIDER, H.I., 1972, Permian Castile varved evaporite sequence, west Texas and New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, p. 59-86.
  37. ANDERSON, R.Y., KIETZKE, K.K., and RHODES, D.J., 1978, Development of dissolution breccias, northern Delaware basin, New Mexico and Texas, in Austin, G.S., ed., Geology and Mineral Deposits of Ochoan Rocks in Delaware Basin and Adjacent Areas: Socorro, NM, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Circular 159, p. 47-52.
  38. ANDERSON, R.Y., and KIRKLAND, D.W., 1966, Intrabasin varve correlation: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 77, p. 241-256.
  39. ANDERSON, R.Y., and KIRKLAND, D.W., 1979, Dissolution of salt in the Delaware basin by means of brine density flow [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 11, p. 379.
  40. ANDERSON, R.Y., and KIRKLAND, D.W., 1980, Dissolution of salt deposits by brine density flow: Geology, v. 8, p. 66-69.
  41. ANDERSON, R.Y., and KIRKLAND, D.W., 1987, Banded evaporites, Delaware Basin, New Mexico, Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide, p. 455-458.
  42. ANDERSON, R.Y., and KIRKLAND, D.W., 1988, Banded Castile evaporites, Delaware Basin, New Mexico, in Reid, S.T., Bass, R.O., and Welch, P., eds., Guadalupe Mountains Revisited, Texas and New Mexico [1988 Field Seminar]: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 88-84, p. 187-190.
  43. ANDERSON, R.Y., and POWERS, D.W., 1978, Salt anticlines in Castile-Salado evaporite sequence, northern Delaware basin, New Mexico, in Austin, G.S., ed., Geology and Mineral Deposits of Ochoan Rocks in Delaware Basin and Adjacent Areas: Socorro, NM, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Circular 159, p. 78-83.
  44. ANDREASON, M.W., 1992, Coastal siliciclastic sabkhas and related evaporitive environments of the Permian Yates Formation, North Ward-Estes Field, Ward County, Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76, p. 1735-1759.
  45. ANONYMOUS, 1947, Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico-Texas: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Guidebook 4, 94 p.
  46. ANONYMOUS, 1951, Introduction to the petroleum geology of the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society, 51 p.
  47. ANONYMOUS, 1951, Permian stratigraphy of the Capitan Reef area of the southern Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico (1951 Field Conference Guidebook): Roswell, NM, Roswell Geological Society, 20 p.
  48. ANONYMOUS, 1954, Guidebook of southeastern New Mexico (5th Field Conference): Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico Geological Society, 209 p.
  49. ANONYMOUS, 1957, Slaughter Canyon, New Cave and Capitan Reef exposures, Carlsbad Caverns National Park (April 13, 1957 Field Trip Guidebook): Roswell, NM, Roswell Geological Society, 19 p.
  50. ANONYMOUS, 1960, Geology of the Delaware basin and field trip guidebook (1960 Field Trip Guidebook): Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society, 97 p.
  51. ANONYMOUS, 1962, Permian of the central Guadalupe Mountains, Eddy County, New Mexico: Midland, TX, Hobbs, Roswell, and West Texas Geological Societies Field Trip Guidebook and Geological Discussions, Publication No. 62-48, 115 p.
  52. ANONYMOUS, 1964, Geology of the Capitan reef complex of the Guadalupe Mountains, Culberson County, Texas and Eddy County, New Mexico (1964 Field Trip Guidebook): Roswell, NM, Roswell Geological Society, 124 p.
  53. ANONYMOUS, 1966, Oil and gas fields in west Texas — Symposium: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 66-52, 398 p.
  54. ANONYMOUS, 1969, Delaware Basin Exploration: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 68-55a, 170 p.
  55. ANONYMOUS, 1969, Oil and gas fields in west Texas — Symposium, Volume 2: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 69-57, 134 p.
  56. ANONYMOUS, 1973, The Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico, Permian structure map showing oil and gas production (scale 1:348,480): Structuremaps Limited, 1 sheet.
  57. ANONYMOUS, 1982, Selected Oil and Gas Fields in West Texas (a reprint of Symposium Volumes I, II and III): Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 82-75, 689 p.
  58. ARTHUR, M.A., 1984, Carbon isotope anomalies?: Nature, v. 310, p. 450-451.
  59. ASHOUR, A., and JACKA, A.D., 1981, Concentration changes of minor elements due to diagenesis of Middle Permian dolostones in the Permian Basin: Libyan Journal of Science, v. 11, p. 11-24.
  60. ASQUITH, G.B., 1995, Determining carbonate pore types from petrophysical logs, in Pausé, P.H., and Candelaria, M.P., eds., Carbonate Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy: Practical Applications of Carbonate Models: Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 95-36; Permian Basin Graduate Center Publication 5-95, p. 69-79.
  61. ASQUITH, G.B., and DRAKE, J.F., 1985, Depositional history and reservoir development of a Permian Fistulipora-Tubiphytes bank complex, Blalock Lake East Field, west Texas, in Roehl, P.O., and Choquette, P.W., eds., Carbonate Petroleum Reservoirs: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 309-316.
  62. ASSERETO, R., and KENDALL, C.G.St.C., 1977, Nature, origin and classification of peritidal tepee structures and related breccias: Sedimentology, v. 24, p. 153-210.
  63. AUSTIN, G.S., 1980, Potash in New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, p. 97-114.
  64. AUSTIN, G.S., and BARKER, J.M., 1990, Economic geology of the Carlsbad potash district, in Kyle, J.R., ed., Industrial Mineral Resources of the Delaware Basin, Texas, and New Mexico: Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook v. 8, p. 97-114.
  65. AUSTIN, G.S., BARKER, J.M., CRAWFORD, J.E., HAWLEY, J.W., LOVE, D., LUCAS, S.G., and ADAMS, J.W., 1993, First-day road log, from Carlsbad to Whites City, Orla, Loving, potash enclave and return to Carlsbad, in Love, D.W., Hawley, J.W., Kues, B.S., Adams, J.W., Austin, G.S., and Barker, J.M., eds., Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas: New Mexico Geological Society, 44th Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 1-42.


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  2. BABCOCK, J.A., 1977, Calcareous algae, organic boundstones, and the genesis of the upper Capitan Limestone (Permian, Guadalupian), Guadalupe Mountains, west Texas and New Mexico, in Hileman, M.E., and Mazzullo, S.J., eds., Upper Guadalupian facies, Permian reef complex, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and west Texas (1977 Field Conference Guidebook): Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 77-16, p. 3-44.
  3. BABCOCK, J.A., 1979, Calcareous algae and algal problematica of the Capitan Reef (Permian), Guadalupe Mountains, west Texas and New Mexico, U.S.A.: Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine, v. 3, p. 419-428.
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  6. BABCOCK, L.C., 1974, Conodont paleoecology of a Guadalupian (Permian) shelf to basin sequence, Permian reef complex, west Texas and New Mexico [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 6, p. 489.
  7. BABCOCK, L.C., 1974, Statistical approaches to the conodont paleoecology of the Lamar Limestone, Permian reef complex, west Texas [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation]: University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, 175 p.
  8. BABCOCK, L.C., 1977, Life in the Delaware basin — the paleoecology of the Lamar Limestone, in Hileman, M.E., and Mazzullo, S.J., eds., Upper Guadalupian facies, Permian reef complex, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and west Texas (1977 Field Conference Guidebook): Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 77-16, p. 357-390.
  9. BACHMAN, G.O., 1973, Surficial features and Late Cenozoic history in southeastern New Mexico, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 4339-8, 32 p.
  10. BACHMAN, G.O., 1974, Geologic processes and Cenozoic history related to salt dissolution in southeastern New Mexico, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 74-194, 82 p.
  11. BACHMAN, G.O., 1975, New Mexico, in McKee, E.D., and Crosby, E.J., eds., Paleotectonic investigations of the Pennsylvanian System in the United States: Washington, D.C., U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 853-L, p. 233-243.
  12. BACHMAN, G.O., 1976, Cenozoic deposits of southeastern New Mexico and an outline of the history of evaporite dissolution: U.S. Geological Survey, Journal of Research, v. 4, p. 135-149.
  13. BACHMAN, G.O., 1980, Regional geology and Cenozoic history of Pecos Region, southeastern New Mexico, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 80-1099, 116 p.
  14. BACHMAN, G.O., 1981, Geology of Nash Draw, Eddy County, New Mexico, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 81-31, 8 p.
  15. BACHMAN, G.O., 1984, Regional geology of Ochoan evaporites, northern part of Delaware Basin: Socorro, NM, New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources Circular 184, 22 p.
  16. BACHMAN, G.O., 1984, Assessment of near-surface dissolution at and near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), southeastern New Mexico: Albuquerque, NM, Sandia National Laboratories, Report SAND84-7178, 33 p.
  17. BACHMAN, G.O., 1987, Evaporite karst in the Pecos drainage, southeastern New Mexico, in D. W. Powers and W. C. James eds., Geology of the Western Delaware Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico: El Paso, TX, El Paso Geological Society Guidebook 18, p. 118-123..
  18. BACHMAN, G.O., and JOHNSON, R.B., 1973, Stability of salt in the Permian Salt Basin of Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 4339-4, 66 p.
  19. BAIN, R.J., 1967, Paleoecology of some Leonardian patch reefs in the Glass Mtns., Texas: Brigham Young University, Geology Studies, v. 14, p. 195-236.
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  21. BAKER, C.L., 1924, Caverns in the Guadalupe Mountain Range: Science, v. 59, p. 379.
  22. BAKER, C.L., 1929, Depositional history of the red beds and saline residues of the Texas Permian, University of Texas Bulletin No. 2901, p. 9-72.
  23. BAKER, C.L., 1934, Major structural features of Trans-Pecos Texas, in Sellards, E.H., and Baker, C.L., eds., The Geology of Texas: Austin, TX, University of Texas Bulletin No. 3401, part 2, p. 137-214.
  24. BAKER, C.L., 1935, Sulfur in Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Mineral Resource Circular 6, 4 p.
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  28. BARKER, C.E., and HALLEY, R.B., 1986, Fluid inclusion, stable isotope, and vitrinite reflectance evidence for the thermal history of the Bone Spring Limestone, southern Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, in Gautier, D.L., ed., Roles of Organic Matter in Sediment Diagenesis: Tulsa, OK, SEPM Special Publication No. 38, p. 189-203.
  29. BARKER, C.E., and PAWLEWICZ, M.J., 1987, The effects of igneous intrusions and higher heat flow on the thermal maturity of Leonardian and younger rocks, western Delaware Basin, Texas, in Cromwell, D.W., and Mazzullo, L., eds., The Leonardian Facies in W. Texas and S. E. New Mexico and Guidebook to the Glass Mountains, West Texas: Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 87-27, p. 69-83.
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  43. BEARD, T.C., 1983, Photogeologic map of the Spike "S" Ranch in the southern Hueco Mountains, Hudspeth County, Texas, in Meader-Roberts, S.J., ed., Geology of the Sierra Diablo and southern Hueco Mountains, West Texas (May 1983 Field Conference Guidebook): Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 83-22, p. 177-178.
  44. BEARD, T.C., 1985, Notes on the Paleozoic structures of the Hueco Mountains, Hudspeth and El Paso Counties, Texas, in Dickerson, P.W., and Muehlberger, W.R., eds., Structure and Tectonics of Trans-Pecos Texas: Midland, TX, West Texas Geological Society Publication 85-81, p. 123-126.
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  46. BEBOUT, D.G., 1986, Facies control of porosity in the Grayburg Formation: Dune Field, Crane County, Texas, in Bebout, D.G., and Harris, P.M., eds., Hydrocarbon Reservoir Studies, San Andres/Grayburg Formations, Permian Basin: Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 86-26, p. 107-111.
  47. BEBOUT, D.G., and HARRIS, P.M., 1986, Hydrocarbon Reservoir Studies, San Andres/Grayburg Formations, Permian Basin: Midland, TX, Permian Basin Section-SEPM Publication 86-26, 143 p.
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