Reconstruction of a Pennsylvanian carbonate platform-to-basin complex is presented from well logs for the eastern margin of the Palo Duro Basin. Well-log character and core data indicate carbonate facies, most likely constructed of phylloid algal bioherms and biointraclastic fusulinid lime sands, dominated the platform margin. Lower slope and basin lithologies reflect episodic deposition of carbonates and shales. The alternating carbonate-shale cycles occur in the lower slope and basin as discrete basinward thinning wedges.

Post-carbonate basin-filling shales preserved the platform-to-basin profile, which had a depth of nearly 200 meters. Turbidites and debris flows transported predominately platform margin sediments down a slope of 3-4 degrees that varies in width between 4.8-8.8 kilometers. The entire wedge of carbonate clastics extends 11 kilometers into the the basin from the platform margin.

The wedge consists of amalgamated mud-rich biolithoclastic and lithoclastic floatstones and rudstones, and porous biolithoclastic rudstones-grainstones and bioclastic packstones-grainstones. Sediment textures suggest deposition from debris flows and turbidity currents. The latter lithology represents the prospective reservoir facies in the basin. Porosity occurs in preserved intraskeletal, cement-reduced primary intergranular, and secondary dissolution of phylloid algal plates.