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The University of Texas of the Permian Basin began in 1973 [14] as a university that initially offered only junior, senior, and graduate level programs. Among those who pushed for the establishment of UTPB was the oil industrialist Bill Noël , who with his wife, Ellen Witwer Noël, became major philanthropists of the institution. [ 15 ]
The lower beds were tentatively identified as Permian beds, and were removed from the Dolores Formation to the newly designated Cutler Formation. [ 3 ] Baker and Reeside revised Cross and Howe's work in 1929, tracing the Cutler across the Colorado Plateau and dividing the formation into the Halgaito Tongue , Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member, Organ ...
The Elephant Canyon Formation is the basal Permian geologic formation of the Cutler Group overlying an unconformity on the Pennsylvanian Honaker Trail Formation in the Paradox Basin of southern Utah. [1] [2] Description
The Permian Basin comprises several component basins, including the Midland Basin, which is the largest; Delaware Basin, the second largest; and Marfa Basin, the smallest. The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km 2), [1] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long. [2]
American Association of Petroleum Geologists. "Geological Highway Map of Texas." Tulsa, 1979. Geologic Provinces of the United States: Ouachita-Ozark Interior Highlands (Accessed 3/27/06) Spearing, Darwin. Roadside Geology of Texas. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1991. ISBN 978-0-87842-265-4
The move is expected to strengthen the Oklahoma company's presence in the Permian Basin and fit well with its existing assets in ... Tulsa-based ONEOK acquires Medallion, EnLink interest for $5.9 ...
The web site of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB, Center for Energy and Economic Diversification), identifies five craters at the Odessa site and shows a distribution map of the meteorite fragments recovered from the area. [4]
During the Permian, the bonebed was the site of a freshwater pond. After a catastrophic event this became the burial site for a variety of terrestrial and marine animals. [15] As a result, the bonebed contains a cross-section of life during the early Permian. Plant remains found in the bonebed include Calamites, ferns, and conifers. [6]