Fracture Analyses of the Palo Duro Basin Area, Texas Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico |
Contents
Abstract | 1 |
Field investigations of joints and joint spacing | 18 |
Fractures and veins in core | 25 |
1 other sections not shown
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Alibates anhydrite AVTD plots bed thickness bedded and recrystallized Bonita Fault boreholes calcite Canyon State Park Caprock Canyons carbonate cored intervals Cretaceous Deaf Smith County Dewey Lake diagenetic dissolution Duro Basin area eastern New Mexico evaporite FIGURE FIL orientations fracture identification logs fracture strikes fractured/vein-bearing Permian strata Fractures and veins Friemel gypsum veins Hovorka intervals of fractured/vein-bearing John Ray John Ray Dome joint zones joints strike joints/2 lower Clear Fork mineral fillings mudstone number of measurements occur outcrop overlying pads Palo Duro Basin Palo Duro Canyon Permian and Triassic Photomicrograph Quay County Randall County recrystallized halite Red Cave Rex White salt salt-zone units San Andres Formation sandstone siltstone SWEC Mansfield Swisher Counties systematic joints Tansill Tertiary strata Texas Panhandle traverse Triassic Dockum Triassic rocks Triassic strata Tubb upper Clear Fork upper San Andres vein filling vein halite veins in core vertical Wise and McCrory Wolfcamp Series