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| | NMBGMR Staff - Peter Scholle - Guadalupe Mountains |
 | | All the outcrop facies of the Guadalupe, Delaware, and Glass Mountains are encountered in the subsurface Delaware basin, Northwest Shelf, Central Basin Platform, Midland basin, and to a lesser degree, the Marfa basin. |
 | | In this scenario, unstable, unconsolidated sands delivered to shelf settings by unspecified (presumably ephemeral stream and eolian) processes were carried into the basin by salinity currents generated in evaporitic lagoons which may have been shifted close to the edge of the shelf during relative lowstands of sea level. |
 | | Such flanking areas are in the western part of the Northwestern Shelf, the western areas of the Delaware basin, and the southern and western parts of the Val Verde basin." (Dolton et al., 1979, p. |
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