Publication Year
1988
Series
Cross Sections
Publisher
Abstract
The Palo Duro Basin of the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico contains bedded Permian salts of sufficient thickness and depth for the basin to be considered as a potential site for long-term storage and isolation of high-level nuclear waste.
Publication Year
1988
Series
Report of Investigations
Publisher
Abstract
The interaction of geomorphic and ground-water processes has produced the Caprock Escarpmentthat bounds the eastern margin of the Southern High Plains in the Texas Panhandle.
Publication Year
1988
Series
Mineral Resource Circular
Publisher
Map Scale
1:48000
Publication Year
1988
Series
Geologic Quadrangle Map
Publisher
Publication Year
1988
Series
Report of Investigations
Publisher
Abstract
In the Palo Duro Basin, the Wolfcampian Series (lower Permian) overlies Pennsylvanian (primarily Virgilian) strata and underlies the Wichita Group (Leonardian).