Victorio Peak Formation

The Victorio Peak Formation is a geologic formation found in the Delaware Basin in Texas and New Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Leonardian Age of the Permian Period.[1]

Victorio Peak Formation
Stratigraphic range: Kungurian
TypeFormation
UnderliesCutoff Shale
Thickness1,000 m (3,300 ft)
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
OtherDolomite
Location
Coordinates31°19′31″N 104°52′47″W / 31.3254°N 104.8798°W / 31.3254; -104.8798
RegionTexas
New Mexico
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forVictorio Peak (Texas)
Named byKing and King
Year defined1929
Victorio Peak Formation is located in the United States
Victorio Peak Formation
Victorio Peak Formation (the United States)
Victorio Peak Formation is located in Texas
Victorio Peak Formation
Victorio Peak Formation (Texas)

Description

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The formation consists of light gray limestone and dolomite[1] The total thickness over 1,000 meters (3,300 ft).[2] The base of the formation is largely concealed in the subsurface, and the formation is overlain by the Cutoff Shale.[1] The formation grades laterally to the southeast into the Bone Spring Formation, representing the change from shallow shelf carbonate deposition to deep marine carbonate deposition. To the northwest, the Victorio Peak Formation grades into the Yeso Group and the lower part of the San Andres Formation.[3][4]

Fossils

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The formation contains fossil brachiopods, include Productus ivesii,[5] Dichtyoclostus, and Neospirifer, fusulinids such as Parafusilina, crinoids, corals, and euomphalid gastropods[6] characteristic of the Leonardian.

History of investigation

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The formation was first designated the Victorio Peak Member of the (now-abandoned) Leonard Formation by King and King in 1929.[5] It was reassigned as the Victorio Peak Member of the Bone Spring Formation by King in 1942,[2] and finally removed as its own formation by Hay-Roe in 1957.[7]

Economic geology

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See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c Kues and Giles 2004
  2. ^ a b King 1942
  3. ^ Kerans et al. 1993
  4. ^ Kues and Giles 2004, p.100
  5. ^ a b King and King 1929
  6. ^ Boyd 1958
  7. ^ Hay-Roe 1957

References

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  • Boyd, Donald Wilkin (1958). "Permian sedimentary facies, central Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Bulletin. 49. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  • Hay-Roe, Hugh (1957). "Geologic map of Wylie Mountains and vicinity, Culberson and Jeff Davis Counties, Texas". University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Quadrangle Map. GQ-0021. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  • Kerans, Charles H.; Fitchen, W. M.; Gardner, M. H.; Wardlaw, B. R. (1993). "A contribution to the evolving stratigraphic framework of middle Permian strata of the Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 44: 175–184. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  • King, P.B. (1942). "Permian of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico: PART 1". AAPG Bulletin. 26. doi:10.1306/3D933466-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D.
  • King, Philip B.; King, Robert E. (1929). "Stratigraphy of Outcropping Carboniferous and Permian Rocks of Trans-Pecos Texas". AAPG Bulletin. 13. doi:10.1306/3D93286B-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D.
  • Kues, B.S.; Giles, K.A. (2004). "The late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountain system in New Mexico". In Mack, G.H.; Giles, K.A. (eds.). The geology of New Mexico. A geologic history: New Mexico Geological Society Special Volume 11. pp. 95–136. ISBN 9781585460106.