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West Texas Geological Society
Abstract
Preliminary Investigation of the Diablo Platform-Delaware Basin Margin, Trans-Pecos Texas, Part I: An Historical Perspective
Abstract
Earliest documented geologic observations of the Diablo Platform region, dating from the mid-nineteenth century, were simple reconnaissance investigations. Serious geologic field work began in 1855-56 as government sponsored exploration and mapping expeditions into the region. By the 1920’s mineralogical investigations of the Diablo Platform region had concluded that oil and gas discoveries would be unlikely. Thus, most hydrocarbon exploration focused in the central part of the Permian Basin where major fields were being discovered and produced. In the 1930’s and 40’s the Diablo Platform began to be seen as forming the western margin of the Delaware Basin, though with major differences involving platform extent. By the end of the 1950’s and well into the 1960’s, the platform was recognized as a major tectonic element associated with the formation of the Delaware Basin, possibly having an older origin than this basin, but with the details of its tectonic and stratigraphic influence not well understood.
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