Geologic Framework of the Capitan Reef

The Capitan Formation of southeast New Mexico and west Texas contains one of the world's best exposed and most famous reefs. Depositional and diagenetic models derived from the Capitan have been used to interpret carbonate strata throughout the world. This volume contains 12 state-of-the-art papers summarizing major new research on the Capitan, putting the Capitan into a modern stratigraphic, depositional, paleontologic, and diagenetic framework.

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