Abstract
The Tatum Basin (Fig. 1) is located in southeastern New Mexico on the Northwest Shelf of the prolific hydrocarbon-productive Permian Basin region. It is a local subsurface basin that originated in Early Pennsylvanian time, with maximum development during Middle Pennsylvanian. As a result of depositional infilling, the area ceased to be a basin by Early Permian (Wolfcamp) time and became a shallow open shelf that was the site of cyclic carbonate deposition. Phylloid algal mounds are an integral part of these cycles and are the subject of this paper.
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Cys, J.M. (1985). Lower Permian Phylloid Algal Mounds, Southern Tatum Basin, Southeastern New Mexico, U.S.A.. In: Toomey, D.F., Nitecki, M.H. (eds) Paleoalgology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70355-3_13
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