Anatomy of a Paleozoic Basin: The Permian Basin, USA, Volume 1

This is Volume 1 of a two-volume set. The set is the first comprehensive analysis of the Permian Basin in more than 60 years. Collectively, these chapters provide a spectrum of data and interpretations that characterize one of the largest hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world.  This publication will be of interest to all who seek information on the distribution of hydrocarbons in the basin as well as to those wanting to better understand the evolution of the basin during the Phanerozoic.

Section 1: Structure, Tectonics, and Precambrian

Chapter 1    
Ruppel, S. C., 2019, Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA: introduction, overview, and evolution, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 1): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 1–27.

Chapter 2   
Keller, G. R., 2019, Constraints on structural and tectonic interpretations of the Permian Basin based on gravity and magnetic data, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 2): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 31–42.

Chapter 3
Ewing, T. E., Barnes, M. A., and Denison, R. E., 2019, Proterozoic foundations of the Permian Basin, West Texas and southeastern New Mexico—a review, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 3): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 43–61.

Chapter 4
Ewing, T. E., 2019, Tectonics of the West Texas (Permian) Basin—origins, structural geology, subsidence, and later modification, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 4): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 63–96.

Chapter 5
Brown, A., 2019, Post-Permian history of the greater Permian Basin area, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 5): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 97–134.

Section 2: Paleontology and Biostratigraphy

Chapter 6   
Barrick, J. E., and Meyer, B. D., 2019, Silurian–Devonian conodont biostratigraphy in the southern Midcontinent region of North America, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 6): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 137–165.

Chapter 7
Wahlman, G. P., 2019, Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian fusulinid biostratigraphy of the Permian Basin region, southwestern USA, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 7): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 167–227.

Chapter 8
Wardlaw, B. R., and Nestell, M. K., 2019, Conodont biostratigraphy of Lower Permian (Wolfcampian–Leonardian) stratotype sections of the Glass and Del Norte Mountains, West Texas, USA, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 8): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 229–249.

Chapter 9  
Nestell, M. K., Nestell, G. P., and Wardlaw, B. R., 2019, Integrated fusulinid, conodont, and radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Guadalupian (Middle Permian) in the Permian Basin region, USA, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 9): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 251–291.

Section 3: Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Sedimentology I

Chapter 10
Loucks, R. G., and Kerans, C., 2019, Geologic review of the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group of the Permian Basin, West Texas and southeast New Mexico, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 10): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 295–330.

Chapter 11
Harrington, R. R., 2019, The Middle–Upper Ordovician Simpson Group of the Permian Basin: stratigraphy, lithofacies, and reservoir development, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 11): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 331–352.

Chapter 12
Harrington, R. R., and Ruppel, S. C., 2019, Patterns of Montoya Group (Middle Ordovician) deposition, diagenesis, and reservoir development in the Permian Basin, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 12): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 353–378.

Chapter 13
Ruppel, S. C., 2019, The Fusselman of the Permian Basin: patterns in depositional and diagenetic facies development on a stable platform during the Late Ordovician–Early Silurian icehouse, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1, ch. 13): The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 379–399.