Structural history of part of Kent Station quadrangle, Culberson and Jeff Davis Counties, Texas

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1952

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Carleton, Alfred Townes, 1929-

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The Kent Station quadrangle lies on the southeastern flank of the Apache Mountains of Trans-Pecos Texas. By means of a plane-table and alidade survey, structural contours were constructed which revealed the structure as a gentle south-dipping homocline which has been modified by normal faults of a northwest strike, a syncline with the same trend, and gentle warps. The area has been subjected to movements which date from pre-Ordovician time. During pre-Pennsylvanian time it was the site of an epeiric basin which received foreland deposits. In Pennsylvanian time it represented a foreland range to the northwest of the Marathon uplift. Its Permian history was characterized by the deposition of back-reef facies. After receiving middle and late Cretaceous sediments, the area was block faulted and uplifted to become a part of the Tertiary basin and range province

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