Paul (Mitch) Harris's scientific contributions

Publications (2)

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The Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and south-eastern New Mexico offer impressive seismic-scale outcrops that are readily accessible for study, through spectacular vistas and well-maintained public trails. The Guadalupe Mountains exposures provide valuable insight into the depositional patterns and profiles of shelf-to-slope clinoforms, the width...
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The carbonate and siliciclastic outcrops of the Guadalupe Mountains in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico have provided a rich set of basic and advanced conceptual models for geologists across the entire spectrum of experience for carbonate-ramp and steep-rimmed–platform settings as well as the adjacent deep-water siliciclastics not dea...

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... This study focuses on channels with intermittent flow in Last Chance Canyon, which is part of the Guadalupe Mountains ( Fig. 1). During the Permian period, a shallow lagoon existed behind a reef complex to the south and deposited what would become the interbedded carbonate and siliciclastic bedrock of Last Chance Canyon (Hill et al., 2000;Phelps et al., 2008;Kerans et al., 2017). The Guadalupe Mountains were uplifted during basin and range extension beginning 27 Myr ago, exposing the previously buried bedrock (Chapin et al., 1994;Ricketts et al., 2014;Hoffman, 2014;Decker et al., 2018). ...