About the Editor
In Memoriam - Rodger E. "Tim" Denison
In Memoriam - Bruce Richardson Wardlaw
Chapter 1: Introduction, Overview, and Evolution, by S. C. Ruppel
Section 1: Structure, Tectonics, and Precambrian
Chapter 2: Constraints on structural and tectonic interpretations of the Permian Basin based on gravity and magnetic data, by G. R. Keller
Chapter 3: Proterozoic foundations of the Permian Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico —a review, by T. E. Ewing, M. A. Barnes, and R. E. Denison
Chapter 4: Tectonics of the West Texas (Permian) Basin—origins, structural geology, subsidence, and later modification, by T. E. Ewing
Chapter 5: Post-Permian history of the greater Permian Basin area, by Alton Brown
Section 2: Paleontology and Biostratigraphy
Chapter 6: Silurian–Devonian conodont biostratigraphy in the southern Midcontinent region of North America, by J. E. Barrick and B. D. Meyer
Chapter 7: Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian fusulinid biostratigraphy of the Permian Basin region, southwestern USA, by G. P. Wahlman
Chapter 8: Conodont biostratigraphy of Lower Permian (Wolfcampian–Leonardian) stratotype sections of the Glass and Del Norte Mountains, West Texas, USA, by B. R. Wardlaw and M. K. Nestell
Chapter 9: Integrated fusulinid, conodont, and radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Guadalupian (Middle Permian) in the Permian Basin region, USA, by M. K. Nestell, G. P. Nestell, and B. R. Wardlaw
Section 3: Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Sedimentology I
Chapter 10: Geologic review of the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group of the Permian Basin, West Texas and southeast New Mexico, by R. G. Loucks and Charles Kerans
Chapter 11: The Middle–Upper Ordovician Simpson Group of the Permian Basin: stratigraphy, lithofacies, and reservoir development, by R. R. Harrington
Chapter 12: Patterns of Montoya Group (Middle Ordovician) deposition, diagenesis, and reservoir development in the Permian Basin, by R. R. Harrington and S.C. Ruppel
Chapter 13: The Fusselman of the Permian Basin: patterns in depositional and diagenetic facies development on a stable platform during the Late Ordovician–Early Silurian icehouse, by S. C. Ruppel