| 12:15 PM-5:00 PM, El Paso, Texas: |
CANCELED: Platform-Basin Transition and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Permian Rocks, Guadalupe Mountains, west Texas, and southeastern New Mexico
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| Primary Leader: Michael C. Pope |
| Leader(s): James R. Markello |
| Field Trip Description: The Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas and southern New Mexico provide one of the best 3-dimensional exposures of a carbonate platform-basin transition exposed anywhere in the world. These Late Permian rocks are well-exposed along both depositional dip and depositional strike, and their commonly horizontal orientation provides a truly exceptional setting for studying carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. Over the past 5 decades these rocks have been studied to develop, test, and refine sedimentologicial and stratigraphic models. The proposed fieldtrip will focus on teaching the undergraduate and graduate students how to apply advanced sequence stratigraphic analysis to understand this carbonate depositional system. A number of office and field examples will be used to construct the sequence stratigraphic framework necessary to understand the development of this carbonate platform. This trip should be of wide interest to students studying sedimentology, stratigraphy, oceanography, and paleontology. |
| Field Trip will span: 3 days |
| Sponsor(s): Sedimentary Geology Division of GSA; Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) |