Abstract
The Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and south-eastern New Mexico offer impressive seismic-scale outcrops that are readily accessible for study, through spectacular vistas and well-maintained public trails. The Guadalupe Mountains exposures provide valuable insight into the depositional patterns and profiles of shelf-to-slope clinoforms, the width of facies tracts on ramps and rimmed platforms, the distribution and internal composition of reef complexes, the link between reef development and slope depositional patterns, styles of early and late diagenesis, structural patterns, and the scale and continuity of analogous reservoir facies. Superb exposures of this carbonate system, in sight of actively drilling hydrocarbon wells in the same stratigraphic intervals found throughout the adjacent Permian Basin, demonstrate the value of outcrop analogues in the discovery and development of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Field excursions recommended and detailed herein include: 1) the Western Escarpment, Shumard Canyon and Bone Canyon; 2) Permian San Andres Ramp, Algerita Escarpment; 3) Permian Reef Geology Trail, McKittrick Canyon; and 4) Rattlesnake and Walnut Canyons, Carlsbad Cavern.
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