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Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: The Glen Rose Reef Complex of East Texas
and Central Louisiana
By
Union Texas Petroleum
Houston, Texas
The massive limestone sections of the Glen Rose of East Texas and central
Louisiana are considered to be clastic carbonate barrier reefs. The cause, sequence
and depositional form of a clastic barrier reef complex is presented in theory and supported
by examples. Basinal subsidence, a regressive pattern of deposition and
subsequent fore reef leveling during periods when the sea was restricted in front of the
barrier reefs develop a typical depositional form.
At least three separate clastic barrier reef complexes have developed in the
lower Cretaceous of Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Post lower
Cretaceous regional tilting has altered original reservoir conditions but there remains
great potential for hydrocarbon accumulations in stratigraphically controlled
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