Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Keywords
Wolfcampian Series, Depositional sequences, Fusulinid facies
Abstract
The Wolfcampian Series crops out along the base of the Glass Mountains escarpment (King, 1930, 1937) and, in the western part of the Marathon Basin, in folded and faulted beds exposed in the Dugout structural fold belt, the westernmost belt in the Marathon Orogen (Ross, 1963). The Wolfcampian is divided into two stages, a lower Nealian Stage and an upper Lenoxian Stage (Ross and Ross, 1987a, 1987b). Strata of these two stages are separated by a major tectonic event in the history of the Marathon orogeny and, as a result, by a major angular unconformity that separates the structurally deformed strata of the Nealian from the slightly deformed Lenoxian strata that crop out nearly continuously as a band across the base of the Glass Mountains escarpment.
Publication Title
Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
Volume
Special Publication 36
First Page
125
Last Page
128
Required Publisher's Statement
Permission was granted for publication of this article in Western CEDAR by the editor of the Journal of Foraminiferal Research.
This article was published in Late Paleozoic Foraminifera: Their Biostratigraphy, Evolution, and Paleoecology and the Mid-Carboniferous Boundary. Eds. Charles A. Ross, June R. P. Ross, and Paul L. Brenckle. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, 1997, Special Publication No. 36.
Recommended Citation
Ross, Charles A. and Ross, June R. P., "Nealian and Lenoxian (Wolfcampian, Lower Permian) Depositional Sequences, Fusulinid Facies and Biostratigraphy, Glass Mountains, Texas" (1997). Geology Faculty Publications. 64.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/geology_facpubs/64
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Facies (Geology)--Texas--Glass Mountains; Fusulinidae--Texas--Glass Mountains.
Geographic Coverage
Wolfcamp Formation (Tex. and N.M.)
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Comments
Original citation:
Ross, June R. P. and Charles A. Ross. "Nealian and Lenoxian (Wolfcampian, Lower Permian) Depositional Sequences, Fusulinid Facies and Biostratigraphy, Glass Mountains, Texas." Late Paleozoic Foraminifera: Their Biostratigraphy, Evolution, and Paleoecology and the Mid-Carboniferous Boundary. Eds. Charles A. Ross, June R. P. Ross, and Paul L. Brenckle. Cambridge: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, 1997. 125-128.