Saller and Henderson (1998) presented an article concerning porosity and permeability variations in two west Texas oil fields (North Riley and South Cowden fields). These fields occur within dolomitized Permian platform carbonates near the basinward shelf edge of the Central Basin platform, a paleogeographic element that influenced Permian deposition in west Texas. Their carefully documented study outlines several anomalous aspects concerning porosity distribution. They noted, in particular, that porosity distribution is not strictly facies dependent but that porosity tends to increase in a basinward direction. They suggested that porosity developed largely during dolomitization by the action of hypersaline evaporative fluids...

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