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GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BONE SPRING FORMATION, DELAWARE BASIN, USING CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND INTEGRATED PETROPHYSICS
<p>The Delaware Basin forms part of West Texas's and New Mexico’s famous petroleum-generating Permian Basin. The Bone Spring Formation is a prolific hydrocarbon producer within this basin, creating one of the world’s richest oil shales. This formation has lithological sequences that are …
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GEOPHYSICAL DELINEATION OF MEGAPOROSITY AND FLUID MIGRATION PATHWAYS FOR GEOHAZARD CHARACTERIZATION WITHIN THE DELAWARE BASIN, CULBERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
… dissolution of gypsum karst within the Delaware Basin poses a significant threat to infrastructure that society depends on. The study area is located in Culberson County, Texas and traverses a distance of approximately 54 kilometers along RM 652 within the Gypsum Plain which is situated …
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Crustal, Thermal, and Structural Controls on Hydrocarbon Systems in the Delaware Basin, West Texas, and Southeastern New Mexico
… events affecting hydrocarbon production in the Delaware Basin, the western physiographical province of the complexly structured, intracratonic Greater Permian Basin based on the interpretation of gravity and magnetic data, 3D seismic, and well data. Initial ambiguity of petroleum systems …
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Shear Wave Splitting Analyses in West Texas
… data from local earthquakes in the Permian Basin in West Texas to understand crustal stress and induced seismicity. The selected events of ML2.0 are recorded by the TexNet and USArray/Transportable Array (TA) stations. SWS parameters, the fast polarization direction and the delay time, are …
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Characterization and Delineation of Karst Geohazards Along RM652 Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Culberson County, Texas
<p>The Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico is the major western subdivision of the Permian Basin and a northern extension of the Chihuahuan Desert. The major evaporite unit within the Delaware Basin is the Castile Formation, which consists of gypsum/anhydrite and is highly …
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An analysis of geothermal viability in Pecos County, Permian Basin, West Texas
Pecos County, located in the Permian Basin of west Texas, is a deep sedimentary basin within which the Delaware Basin and Central Basin Platform are located. Significant oil and gas activity has occurred here over nearly 100 years. This activity has yielded substantial available well data for …
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Speleogenetic Evolution and Geological Remote Sensing of the Gypsum Plain, Eddy County, New Mexico
… evaporites of the Gypsum Plain region of the Delaware Basin host extensive karst phenomena, as well as unique diagenetic alterations of host strata. Because of the complex, poorly understood hydrogeologic system, little has been established concerning the relation and evolution of the …
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Delineation of Karst Geohazards along RM 652 Through the Use of Ground Penetrating Radar: Culberson County, Texas
<p>The Delaware Basin is the western member of the larger Permian Basin, and is located in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas and New Mexico. The Delaware Basin hosts significant evaporite karst geohazards throughout the Gypsum Plain of the Castile Formation, where geohazards of all scales form …
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LIDAR-BASED DELINEATION OF KARST FEATURES IN THE GYPSUM PLAIN, EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO AND CULBERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
<p>The Gypsum Plain of the Delaware Basin encompasses approximately 1,800 km<sup>2</sup> of massive to laminated gypsum (anhydrite in the subsurface) outcrop of early Ochoan Castile and Salado strata. These extensive Permian-age evaporites host significant karst phenomena as a result of the …
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Physical and Chemical Controls on Suffosion Development in Gypsic Soil, Culberson County, Texas
… no prior research has been conducted within the Delaware Basin in regard to these processes. These phenomena were evaluated in both field and laboratory settings in order to assess the parameters of suffosion development associated with Ranch to Market (RM) 652 in Culberson County, Texas, where …
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CHARACTERIZATION AND DELINEATION OF POTENTIAL EVAPORITE GEOHAZARDS USING ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY METHODS ALONG FM 2185, CULBERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
<p>Extensive karst development within the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico poses a significant geohazard threat to infrastructure. Dissolution of regional evaporite strata have led to manifestations of karst geohazard phenomena including sinkholes, subsidence features, and …
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Speleogenesis and Delineation of Megaporosity and Karst Geohazards Through Geologic Cave Mapping and LiDAR Analyses Associated with Infrastructure in Culberson County, Texas
<p>The Gypsum Plain region of the Delaware Basin hosts approximately 1800 km<sup>2</sup> of the Castile Formation outcrop. A myriad of karstic developments from closed sinkholes to large multi-kilometer cave systems have been documented within the region. Karst studies on the distribution and …
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Gravity Modeling, Seismic Stratigraphy, and Thermal Maturity Modeling of Hydrocarbons of the Permian Foreland Basin, USA, and the Sergipe-Alagoas Rifted-Passive Margin, Brazil
The Permian Basin in West Texas is by far the most prolific oil-producing onshore basin in the U.S., and the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin is the sixth-largest hydrocarbon-producing basin in Brazil. The purpose of this dissertation is to better understand the changing tectonic setting, crustal structure, …