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Basement-rooted faults of the Delaware Basin and Central Basin Platform, Permian Basin, West Texas and southeastern New Mexico
Basement-rooted faults of the Delaware Basin and Central Basin Platform, Permian Basin, West Texas and southeastern New Mexico
Author
Horne, E.A., Hennings, P.H., Zahm, C.K.
Publication Year
2021
Keywords
Central Basin Platform, Delaware Basin, Geologic Basement, New Mexico, Permian Basin, West Texas
Series
Report of Investigations
Publisher
Bureau of Economic Geology
Abstract

The Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico is an important petroleum province with a complex tectonic history. This region has been shaped by several divergent and convergent deformation events since the Proterozoic Eon.