Our study documents the shelf, shelf-edge, slope, and basin-floor depositional facies characteristics, stratigraphic variations, and sedimentation trends of the Missourian Canyon Group and Virgilian–Wolfcampian Cisco Group across the southern Eastern Shelf and the adjacent Midland Basin.

The Upper Devonian Woodford Formation is an organic-rich petroleum source rock that extends throughout West Texas and southeastern New Mexico and currently is generating oil or gas in the subsurface.

Occurrences of ground-water and soil salinization are numerous in the Concho River watershed and its confluence with the Colorado River in West Texas and in other semiarid regions of Texas and the United States.

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Tom Green, Irion, and Reagan Counties and parts of Midland, Glasscock, Sterling, Coke, Runnels, Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Crockett, and Upton Counties, Texas.

Lower Cretaceous sands have long been important aquifers in Central, North-Central, and North Texas. In recent years these sands also have been sources of high-silica industrial or specialty-purpose sand.

These circulars issued from the Bureau of Economic Geology contain the record of cores and cuttings from well received and described in the Bureau.