First-day road-log, Trip 3, from Washington Ranch to Whites City, Walnut Canyon and Carlsbad Cavern
Abstract
Today’s trip will look at the Permian geology from the mouth of Walnut Canyon to Carlsbad Caverns that covers the transition from the main Capitan reef to the back reef sediments of the Tansill and Yates Formations.
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- Scholle, Peter A.; Ulmer-Scholle, Dana S., 2006, First-day road-log, Trip 3, from Washington Ranch to Whites City, Walnut Canyon and Carlsbad Cavern, in: Caves and karst of southeastern New Mexico, Land, Lewis; Lueth, Virgil W.; Raatz, William; Boston, Penny; Love, David L., New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 57th Field Conference, pp. 25-42. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-57.25