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Volume: 10 (1926)

Issue: 8. (August)

First Page: 733

Last Page: 746

Title: Oil and Gas Fields of the Texas Panhandle

Author(s): C. Max Bauer

Abstract:

The geology and development of oil and gas in the Panhandle anticline in the Panhandle of Texas are outlined in general terms. The anticline, which is approximately 100 miles long, is caused, in the writer's opinion, mainly by compacting of Permian sediments over buried mountains of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Gas is found in Permian limestone along the axis of this structure for almost its entire length. Oil is found in two formations on the north flank: One of the oil sands is an arkose called locally "granite wash," which occurs in patches in an inner belt near the buried hills; the other oil sand is a dolomitic limestone, which carries gas on the top of the structure but oil in an outer belt which parallels, roughly, the main axis. The consistent low pressure in th oil and gas sands is discussed, and other features such as the position of the water table, faults and group correlations are also treated briefly.

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