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Volume: 10 (1926)

Issue: 2. (February)

First Page: 144

Last Page: 153

Title: The Correlation of the Permian of Kansas, Oklahoma and Northern Texas

Author(s): Charles N. Gould

Abstract:

The Permian rocks of Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas occupy an area about 600 miles long and averaging 125 miles wide. About midway between the northern and southern limits of the exposed Permian are the major structural features known as the Wichita and Arbuckle mountains and the Anadarko basin.

The Permian consists of red beds and non-red sediments. The beds are composed chiefly of red clay shales with interbedded sandstones, gypsums, dolomites, and beds of rock salt; the non-red sediments consist chiefly of limestones and shales. The line of change of color between the red and the non-red sediments transgresses the strike of the rocks at an acute angle, and at about the same distance north and south of the major structural features mentioned above.

Among important results of work done during the past few years are: the recognition of the Anadarko basin and the correlation of the San Angelo-Duncan-Harper sandstone, the Blaine gypsum, and the Whitehorse sandstone from southern Kansas, across Oklahoma to the Colorado River in Texas. Oklahoma equivalents of the Double Mountain formation of Texas have been recognized.

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