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Boundary of the Pennsylvanian and Permian(?) in the Subsurface Scurry Reef, Scurry County, Texas

Abstract
The subsurface sedimentary complex that comprises the Scurry reef and the overlying terrigenous clastic unit in Scurry County, Texas, were formerly regarded as of Canyon and Cisco Pennsylvanian age. Core samples from depths of 6,804 to 6,828 feet in the Wilshire Oil Company’s No. 8 Lunsford well reveal the presence of Triticites pinguis? Dunbar and Skinner, Schwagerina longissimoidea (Beede), and “Schwagerina” compacta (White), which indicate early Wolfcamp Permian (?) age. Triticites pinguis? continues downward in limestone to a depth of approximately 6,875 feet, and since this form, so far as known, is also restricted to rocks of early Wolfcamp age, the stratigraphic unit is classed as Wolfcamp. The overlying black shales are therefore at least as young as Wolfcamp. The fusulinids in the limestone immediately below the 6,875-foot level indicate Canyon (Missouri) age. If beds of Cisco age are present in this well, they could not be recognized by their fauna.
Authors
W.A. Heck
Kieth A. Yenne
Lloyd G. Henbest
Citation

Heck, W. A., Yenne, K. A., and Henbest, L. G., 1952, Boundary of the Pennsylvanian and Permian(?) in the Subsurface Scurry Reef, Scurry County, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 13, 17 p.

Code
RI013
DOI
10.23867/RI0013D
ISSN
2475-367X
Number
13
Number of figures
5
Number of pages
17
Number of plates
1
Publisher
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology
Series
Report of Investigation
Year
1952

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