LEONARDIAN/CLEAR FORK REFERENCES: PERMIAN BASIN
Abugares, Youssef Issa, 1983. Pecos Slope Abo gas field, Chaves and DeBaca counties, New Mexico: University of Texas at El Paso: El Paso, TX, Master’s thesis, 162 p.
Appleton, Greg, 1997. Exploration of the Wichita/Albany Reservoir, Sandhills Field, Crane County, Texas, searching for hydrocarbons in a previously under-exploited reservoir on the Central Basin Platform: University of Oklahoma: Norman, OK, Master’s thesis, 72 p.
Ariza, E. E., 1998, High resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Leonardian lower Clear Fork Group in the Permian Basin, West Texas: unpublished Master’s thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 128 p.
Atchley, S. C., Kozar, M. G., and Yose, L. A., 1999, A predictive model for reservoir characterization in the Permian (Leonardian) Clear Fork and Glorieta Formations, Robertson Field area, West Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin v. 83, p. 1031-1056.
Bain, Roger J., 1967. Paleoecology of some Leonardian patch reefs in the Glass Mountains, Texas: Brigham Young University Research Studies, Geology Series 14: 195-236.
Bain, Roger J., 1967. Paleoecology of some Leonardian patch reefs in the Glass Mountains, Texas: Brigham Young University: Provo, UT, Doctoral dissertation,
Barker, Charles E., 1986. Fluid inclusion, stable isotope, and vitrinite reflectance, evidence for the thermal history of the Bone Spring Limestone, southern Guadalupe Mountains, Texas: Special Publication, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists 38: 189-203.
Barker, Charles E. and Pawlewicz, M. J., 1987. The effects of igneous intrusions and higher heat flow on the thermal maturity of Leonardian and younger rocks, western Delaware Basin, Texas: Publication, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Chapter 87-27: 69-84.
Behnken, Fred H., 1975. Leonardian and Guadalupian (Permian) conodont biostratigraphy in western and southwestern United States: Journal of Paleontology 49, no. 2: 284-315.
Benoist, Stephen Ludwig, 1997. Application of graphic correlation to upper Lower Permian (Artinskian-Kungurian) stratigraphic sections of the Glass Mountains, West Texas and the western slope of the Ural Mountains, Russia: University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA, Doctoral dissertation, 241p.
Benoist, Stephen L., 2000. Application of graphic correlation to compare Lower Permian sections of the Glass Mountains, West Texas and the western slope of the Ural Mountains, Russia: Episodes 23, no. 4: 247-256.
Bentz, L. M., 1988, Pecos Slope Abo, Chaves County, New Mexico: A symposium of the oil and gas fields of southeastern New Mexico, Roswell Geol. Soc., p. 22-42.
Boyd, Donald W., 1962. Leonardian and Lower Guadalupian shelf-edge facies in El Paso Gap Quadrangle, southeastern New Mexico: Permian of the central Guadalupe Mountains, Eddy County, New Mexico: Field trip guidebook, West Texas Geological Society Publication, 91-98.
Brewster, J., 1979. Operators find many ways to keep oil coming from Goldsmith fields: Drill Bit 28, no. 7: 53-57.
Broadhead, R. F., 1983, Stratigraphically controlled gas production from Abo red beds (Permian), east-central New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular 183 36 p.
Chen, Guann C. Mark, 1990. Depositional environments, lithofacies and diagenesis of the lower Clear Fork and Wichita, Fullerton Clear Fork Field, Andrews County, Texas: Texas Tech University: Lubbock, TX, United States, Master’s thesis, 98 p.
Coombs, Leo M., 1990. Depositional environments of Permian strata on Dugout Mountain, Brewster County, Texas: Sul Ross State University: Alpine, TX, Master’s thesis, 115 p.
Cooper, G. Arthur, 1964. New Permian stratigraphic units in Glass Mountains, West Texas: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 48, no. 9: 1581-1588.
Crabaugh, Jeff Patrick, 1988, Depositional history of the Lower Permian Abo formation and Lower Meseta Blanca member of the Yeso Formation, north central New Mexico: University of Texas at Arlington, Master’s thesis, 230 p.
Cromwell, Dave and Mazzullo, L. J., [editor], 1987. The Leonardian facies in W. Texas and S.E. New Mexico and guidebook to the Glass Mountains, West Texas: Publication, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Chapter 87-27, 111 p.
Dahlbert, Kenneth E. and Ference, Marguerite V., 1984. A quantitative test of the electromagnetic propagation (EPT) log for residual oil determination: Transactions of the SPWLA Annual Logging Symposium 25, no. 2: DDD1-DDD20.
Devaney, Kathleen Ann, 1992, Provenance evolution of Upper Paleozoic sandstones of North-Central New Mexico: University of California, Los Angeles, Doctoral dissertation, 352 pages
DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Dixon, William H., Nelson, W. John, Hook, Robert W., 2000. An Early Permian coastal flora from the Central Basin Platform of Gaines County, West Texas: Palaios 15, no. 6: 524-234.
Dinterman, P. A.,, 2001, Regional analysis of the depositional environments of the Yeso and Glorieta formations (Leonardian), New Mexico: New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Master's thesis, 165 p.
Doublet, L. E., Pande, P. K., Clark, M. B., Nevans, J. W., Vessell, R. K. and Blasingame, T. A., 1996. An integrated geologic and engineering reservoir characterization of the North Robertson (Clearfork) Unit: 13-38.
Doublet, Louis Edward, 2001. An integrated geologic and engineering reservoir characterization of the North Robertson (Clear Fork) Unit, Gaines County, Texas: Texas Tech University: Lubbock, TX, Doctoral dissertation, dissertation, 1698 p.
Dutton, S. P., E. M. Kim, R. F. Broadhead, C. L. Breton, W. D. Raatz, S. C. Ruppel, and C. Kerans, 2004, Play analysis and digital portfolio of major oil reservoirs in the Permian Basin: application and transfer of advanced geological and engineering technologies for incremental production opportunities: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Final report to the Department of Energy, contract DE-FC26- 02NT15131, 408 p.
Dutton, Shirley P., Kim, Eugene M., Broadhead, Ronald F., Raatz, William D., Breton, Caroline L., Ruppel, Stephen C., Kerans, Charles, 2005, Play analysis and leading-edge oil-reservoir development methods in the Permian basin: Increased recovery through advanced technologies: AAPG Bulletin 89: 553-576.
Fitchen, W. M., Starcher, M. A., Buffler, R. T., and Wilde, G. L., 1995, Sequence stratigraphic framework and facies models of the early Permian platform margins, Sierra Diablo, West Texas, in Garber, R. A. and Lindsay, R. F. (editors), Wolfcampian-Leonardian shelf margin facies of the Sierra Diablo - seismic scale models for subsurface exploration: West Texas Geological Society Publication 95-97, p. 23-66.
Fitchen, William Mills, 1997. Lower Permian sequence stratigraphy of the western Delaware Basin margin, Sierra Diablo, West Texas: University of Texas at Austin: Austin, TX, Doctoral dissertation, 264 p.
Flowers, B. A., 1984, Depositional environments and diagenesis of the Permian Glorieta Sandstone of northeastern New Mexico: Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, Bachelor's thesis 65 p.
Gawloski, Ted F., 1987. Nature, distribution, and petroleum potential of Bone Spring detrital sediments along the northwest shelf of the Delaware Basin: Publication, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Chapter 87-27: 85-105.
Griffin, A. F., 1989. New exploration targets in northern Midland Basin, depositional and diagenetic history of the West Smyer Field, Hockley County, Texas: Publication - West Texas Geological Society 89-85: 75-86.
Greer, C. B., 1987, A stratigraphic and petrographic analysis of the "Abo" Formation in the Santa Rita, New Mexico, area: Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, United States, Master's thesis, 95 p.
Guevara, Edgar H., 1988. Geological characterization of Permian submarine fan reservoirs of the Driver waterflood unit, Spraberry Trend, Midland Basin, Texas: Report of Investigations 172, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology 44 p.
Hammel, Bradley Stewart, 1996. High resolution reservoir characterization of the Permian (upper Leonardian) Spraberry Formation, Happy Spraberry Field, Garza County, Texas: Texas A&M University: College Station, TX, Master’s thesis, 156 p.
Handford, C. Robertson, 1981. Coastal sabkha and salt pan deposition of the lower Clear Fork Formation (Permian), Texas: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 51, no. 3: 761-778.
Handford, C. Robertson, 1980. Facies patterns and depositional history of a Permian sabkha complex, Red Cave Formation, Texas Panhandle: Geological Circular 80-9, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 38 p.
Handford, C. Robertson, 1980. Lower Permian facies of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas, depositional systems, shelf-margin evolution, paleogeography, and petroleum potential: Report of Investigations 102, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology 31 p.
Harris, Mark T., 1982. Sedimentology of the Cutoff Formation (Permian), western Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico: University of Wisconsin at Madison: Madison, WI, Master’s thesis, 186 p.
Harris, Mark T., 1988. Sedimentology of the Cutoff Formation (Permian), western Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas: West Texas Geological Society Publication, 88-84: 133-140.
Harris, Mark T., 2000. Members for the Cutoff Formation, western escarpment of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas: Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences 32: 101-120.
Harris, Mark T., Lehrmann, Daniel J. and Lambert, Lance L., 2000. Comparison of the depositional environments and physical stratigraphy of the Cutoff Formation (Guadalupe Mountains) and the Road Canyon Formation (Glass Mountains), lowermost Guadalupian (Permian) of West Texas: Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences 32: 127-152.
Hedrick, C. L., 1993, Diagenesis of the Clear Fork Formation (Leonardian) in the Monahans Field, West Texas: Texas A&M University Master’s thesis, 60 p.
Hentz, Tucker F., 1988. Lithostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of upper Paleozoic continental red beds, north-central Texas, Bowie (new) and Wichita (revised) groups: Report of Investigations 170, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology 55 p.
Holtz, M. H., and Garrett, C. M., 1990, Geologic and engineering characterization of Leonardian carbonate oil reservoirs: a framework for strategic recovery practices in four oil plays, in Flis, J. E., and Price, R. C. (editors), Permian Basin oil and gas fields: innovative ideas in exploration and development: West Texas Geological Society Publication No. 90-87, p. 76.
Holtz, M. H., Ruppel, S. C., and Hocott, C. R., 1992, Integrated geologic and engineering determination of oil-reserve-growth potential in carbonate reservoirs: Journal of Petroleum Technology, v. 44, no.11, p. 1250-1258.
Holtz, Mark H., 1991. Analysis of reserve growth potential in Leonardian-restricted platform carbonate reservoirs, Permian Basin, an integrated approach: SPE, Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME 66: 165-170.
Horita, Juske, Friedman, Thomas J.; Lazar, Boaz; Holland, Heinrich D., 1991. The composition of Permian seawater: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 55, no. 2: 417-432.
Hotton, Nicholas, III, Feldmann, Rodney M.; Hook, Robert W.; DiMichele, William A., 2002. Crustacean-bearing continental deposits in the Petrolia Formation (Leonardian Series, Lower Permian) of north-central Texas: Journal of Paleontology 76, no. 3: 486-494.
Hunter, C. D., Hickman, T. S., Kilgo, W. M., 1990. Wentz (Clear Fork): Publication - West Texas Geological Society 90-86: 197-200.
ICF Resources, 1990. An assessment of the reserve growth potential of the Clear Fork platform carbonate play in Texas: Fossil Energy, 77 p.
Jeary, Gene L., 1978. Leonardian strata in the northern Midland Basin of West Texas: West Texas Geological Society Publication, no. 78-69 SWS: 30-47.
Jennings, J.W., Jr., 2000, Spatial statistics of permeability data from carbonate outcrops of West Texas and New Mexico, Implications for improved reservoir modeling: The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 258, 50 p.
Jennings, J.W., Jr., Ruppel, S.C., and Ward, W.B., 2000, Geostatistical analysis of permeability data and modeling of fluid flow effects in carbonate outcrops: Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, v. 3, n. 4, p 292-304.
Jennings, J. W., Jr., Lucia, F. J., and Ruppel, S. C., 2002, 3D Modeling of Stratigraphically Controlled Petrophysical Variability in the South Wasson Clear Fork Reservoir: SPE 77592, 15 p.
Johnson, Imelda Gorman, 1999. Depositional and diagenetic facies of the Leonardian (Permian) Abo and Drinkard carbonates, West Dollarhide Field, southeastern New Mexico: Texas Tech University: Lubbock, TX, Doctoral dissertation, dissertation, 164 p.
Jones, R. H., and F. J. Lucia, 2004, Integration of rock fabric, petrophysical class, and stratigraphy for petrophysical quantification of sequence-stratigraphic framework, Fullerton field, Texas, in S. C. Ruppel, principal investigator, Multidisciplinary imaging of rock properties in carbonate reservoirs for flow unit targeting: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Final contract report to Department of Energy, Contract No. DE-FC26-01BC1535 1, p. 125–162.
Jones, R.H., and S. C. Ruppel, 2004, Evidence of post-Wolfcampian fault movement and its impact on Clear Fork reservoir quality: Fullerton field, West Texas, in R. C. Trentham, Banking on the Permian Basin: plays, field studies, and techniques: West Texas Geological Society Fall Symposium: West Texas Geological Society Publication #04-112, p. 207.
Jordan, David P., 1989. Deposition and diagenesis of Tubb and lower Clear Fork Carbonate, Sand Hills Field, Crane County, Texas: Texas Tech University: Lubbock, TX, Master’s thesis.
Kamis, Jim, 1996. North Robertson Unit, a summary of the geology and petrophysics of the North Robertson Unit, Gaines County, Texas: West Texas Geological Society Publication, 96-99: 119-136.
Kamis, James, Dixon, William, and Vessell, Richard, 2000. Environments of deposition for Clear Fork and Glorieta formations, North Robertson Unit, Gaines County, Texas: Circular, Oklahoma Geological Survey 101: 307-317.
Kerans, C., Fitchen, W. M., Gardner, M. H., Sonnenfeld, M. D., Tinker, S. W. and Wardlaw, B. R., 1992. Styles of sequence development within uppermost Leonardian through Guadalupian strata of the Guadalupe Mountains, Texas and New Mexico: West Texas Geological Society Publication, 92-91: 1-6.
Kerans, Charles, Fitchen, William M., Gardner, M. H. and Wardlaw, B. R., 1993. A contribution to the evolving stratigraphic framework of Middle Permian strata of the Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico: Guidebook, New Mexico Geological Society 44: 175-184.
Kerans, C., K. Kempter, J. Rush, and W. L. Fisher, 2000, Facies and stratigraphic controls on a coastal paleokarst: Lower Permian, Apache Canyon, West Texas, in R. Lindsay, R. Trentham, R. F. Ward, and A. H. Smith, eds., Classic Permian geology of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, 75 Years of Permian Basin oil & gas exploration & development: West Texas Geological Society Publication 00-108, p. 55–82.
Kessler, J. L. P., Soreghan, G. S. and Wacker, H. J. , 22003, Equatorial Aridity in Western Pangea: Lower Permian Loessite and Dolomitic Paleosols in Northeastern New Mexico, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research 71: 817-832.
King, P. B., 1942, Permian of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin v. 26, no. 4, p. 535-763.
King, Philip B., 1983. Leonard and Wolfcamp series of Sierra Diablo, Texas: Symposium and Guidebook, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Section 83-22: 80-96.
King, Philip B., 1962. Leonard and Wolfcamp Series of Sierra Diablo, Texas: Publication, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Chapter: 42-65.
King, P. B., 1965, Geology of the Sierra Diablo region, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 480, 185 p.
Kirkby, Kent Charles, 1982. Deposition, erosion, and diagenesis of the upper Victorio Peak Formation (Leonardian), southern Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas: University of Wisconsin at Madison: Madison, WI, Master’s thesis,
Kirkby, Kent C., 1988. Deposition and Permian erosion of the upper Victorio Peak Formation (Leonardian) western escarpment, Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas: West Texas Geological Society Publication, 88-84: 149-154.
Lambert, Lance Lee, 1992. Characterization and correlation of two upper Paleozoic chronostratigraphic boundaries: University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA, Doctoral dissertation, 244 p.
Lambert, Lance L., Lehrmann, Daniel J. and Harris, Mark T., 2000. Correlation of the Road Canyon and Cutoff formations, West Texas, and its relevance to establishing an international Middle Permian (Guadalupian) series: Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences 32: 153-183.
Landreth, Robert Allen, . 1977. Depositional environments and diagenesis of the lower Clear Fork Group, Mitchell County, Texas: Texas Tech University: Lubbock, TX, United States, Master’s thesis, 79 p.
Laubach, Stephen E., 2003, Practical approaches to identifying sealed and open fractures: AAPG Bulletin 87: 561-579
Lawler, Sydney Kent, 1985. Depositional environment and reservoir morphology of two Wolfcampian (Leonardian) cores, Glasscock County, Texas, Midland Basin: P.B.S.-S.E.P.M. Core Workshop 3: 59-81.
Layman, John Morgan, II, 2002. Porosity characterization utilizing petrographic image analysis, implications for identifying and ranking reservoir flow units, Happy Spraberry Field, Garza County, Texas: , Texas A&M University: College Station, TX, Master’s thesis, thesis, 103 p.
Lee, Bryan Edward, 1980. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and uranium potential of Virgillian-Leonardian strata of the Hollis-Hardeman Basin, Oklahoma and Texas: Oklahoma State University: Stillwater, OK, Master’s thesis, 98 p.
Lee, Bryan Edward, 1982. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and uranium potential of Virgilian-Leonardian strata of the Hollis-Hardeman Basin, Oklahoma and Texas: Shale Shaker 32, no. 8: 1-16.
Leone, John Vincent, Jr., 2001. Structural characterization of the Emperor and Halley fields, Winkler County, West Texas: Texas Tech University: Lubbock, TX, Master’s thesis, thesis, 66 p.
Lorenz, John C., Sterling, Jenny L., Schechter, David S., Whigham, Chris L., Jensen, Jerry L., 2002. Natural fractures in the Spraberry Formation, Midland Basin, Texas, the effects of mechanical stratigraphy on fracture variability and reservoir behavior: AAPG Bulletin 86, no. 3: 505-524.
Lucas, Spencer G., 2004. A global hiatus in the Middle Permian tetrapod fossil record: Stratigraphy 1, no. 1: 47-64.
Lucia, F. J., Jennings, J. W., and Ruppel, S. C., 2001, South Wasson Clear fork reservoir model: outcrop to subtidal via rock fabric method: Society of Petroleum Engineers Paper SPE 70063, 10p.
Lucia, F. J. and J. W. Jennings, Jr., 2002, Calculation and distribution of petrophysical properties in the south Wasson Clear Fork field, in F. J. Lucia, ed., Integrated outcrop and subsurface studies of the interwell environment of carbonate reservoirs: Clear Fork (Leonardian-age) reservoirs, West Texas and New Mexico: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Final technical report to the Department of Energy, Contract No. DE-AC26-98BC15105, p. 95–142.
Mack, G. H., 2003, Lower Permian terrestrial paleoclimatic indicators in New Mexico and their comparison to paleoclimate models: Geology of the Zuni Plateau, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 54, p. 231-240 .
Mack, G. H., and Dinterman, P. A., 2002, Depositional environments and paleogeography of the Lower Permian (Leonardian) Yeso and correlative formations in New Mexico: The Mountain Geologist, 39(4), p. 75-88.
Mazingue-Desailly, Vincent Philippe Guillaume, 2004. Assessing the influence of diagenesis on reservoir quality, Happy Spraberry Field, Garza County, Texas: Texas A&M University: College Station, TX, Master’s thesis, thesis, 69 p.
Mazzullo, Louis J., 1987. Stratigraphy of the Bone Spring Formation (Leonardian) and depositional setting in the Scharb Field, Lea County, New Mexico: Publication, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Chapter 87-27: 107-111.
Mazzullo, S. J., 1982. Stratigraphy and depositional mosaics of lower Clear Fork and Wichita groups (Permian), northern Midland Basin, Texas: AAPG Bulletin 66, no. 2: 210-227.
Mazzullo, S. J., 1986. Mississippi valley-type sulfides in Lower Permian dolomites, Delaware Basin, Texas, implications for basin evolution: AAPG Bulletin 70, no. 8: 943-952.
Mazzullo, S. J., 1987. Basinal Lower Permian facies, Permian Basin, Part 1, Stratigraphy of the Wolfcampian-Leonardian boundary: Bulletin, West Texas Geological Society 26, no. 7: 5-9.
Mazzullo, S. J., 1987. Basinal Lower Permian facies, Permian Basin, Part II, Depositional setting and reservoir facies of Wolfcampian, lower Leonardian basinal carbonates: Bulletin, West Texas Geological Society 26, no. 8: 5-10.