Contribution to Book
Cyclic Deposition of the Permian Road Canyon Formation, Glass Mountains, West Texas
The Guadalupian Symposium
(2000)
Abstract
Similar conflicting interpretations exist in younger rocks in the western facies of the Leonardian Guadalupian to the Compared to the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas and New southwest in the Del Norte Mountains. Ross ( 1986, 1987 ) Mexico the depositional environments of the Permian strata of considered the western facies of the Road Canyon and Word the Glass Mountains ( and adjacent Del Norte Mountains ) are formations to be basinal shales and turbidites. Wardlaw et al. less well known. In general, the Guadalupian facies in the Glass ( 1990 ) and Rohr et al. ( 1987 ) have interpreted this area to be and Del Norte mountains changes from predominantly carbon-shallow intertidal to lagoonal environments adjacent to an ate facies in the northeast to thicker clastic facies in the uplifted area to the south. southwest. Philip B. King ( 1931 ) originally considered this The type section of the Road Canyon Formation is also a trend to reflect an uplifted clastic source to the southwest, with subject of disagreement and will be discussed in more detail carbonate facies developing away from the source area. Ross later. ( 1986 ) interpreted the eastern portion of the Road Canyon and Word formations to consist of shelf, shelf-edge bioherm, and reef facies, and the southwest area to consist of deeper water Conclusions from Recent Work in the Glass Mountains siliceous shale, clastic limestone, and basinal sandstone facies.
Keywords
- Stratigraphy,
- Paleontology
Disciplines
- Geology and
- Paleontology
Publication Date
2000
Editor
Bruce R. Wardlaw, Richard E. Grant, and David M. Rohr
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press
Series
Smithsonian contributions to the Earth Science
Citation Information
Bruce R. Wardlaw, Charles A. Ross and Richard E. Grant. "Cyclic Deposition of the Permian Road Canyon Formation, Glass Mountains, West Texas" Washington, D. C.The Guadalupian Symposium Vol. 32 (2000) p. 121 - 126 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles-ross/80/