Lower Cisco Formation (Pennsylvanian-Virgilian) paleokarst, Wolf Flat field Palo Duro basin, Texas
- Muskoka Consultants, Midland, TX (United States)
- Chevron U.S.A. Prod. Co., Midland, TX (United States)
- Penzoil, Houston, TX (United States); and others
Wolf Flat field produces from karstified Lower Cisco Formation at the rimmed northeast shelf margin. Mounds, peripheral skeletal debris, and oolitic facies form the vertical/lateral succession. Mounds are composed of crinoids, bryozoans, corals and algae. Skeletal packstone/grainstones surround mounds, With back-mound wackestone. Ooid grainstone formed in high-energy passages onto the shelf and cap shallowing-upward cycles. Karstification resulted from two 100+ ft. (30+ m) sea level drops, that dropped in a step-by-step manner to form [approximately]20 porous intervals that extend through all facies and lithologies in the field. Aragonitic mound and skeletal grainstone/wackestones experienced intense dissolution. Calcitic ooid grainstones dissolved less and form cave roofs and floors. Dissolution was in two phases: first, small vertically oriented pipes formed, resembling a [open quotes]swiss cheese[close quotes] texture; second, was intense lateral dissolution that created a [open quotes]sponge[close quotes] texture, with porosities up to 60-70%. Eventually, collapse breccias formed, with some clasts transported in the karst system. Porosity was reduced by vadose silt, breccia clasts, speleothem cements, transgressive shale infilling, and burial saddle dolomite. Portions of the field nearest the rimmed margin were dolomitized. [delta][sup 18]O is within the range of early meteoric diagenesis and [delta][sup 13]C is negative and becomes more negative toward the exposure surface.
- OSTI ID:
- 6862223
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960527--
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bulletin, Journal Name: AAPG Bulletin Vol. 5; ISSN 0149-1423; ISSN AABUD2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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