Permian Basin

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Map of the basins, reefs, and platforms that make up the Permian Basin in West Texas.

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Carol Marie Tang
Senior Science Educator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

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Tracy Terrall

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Permian Basin, Texas, United States.	Gloria Lotha	May 25, 2015
	In the discussion of the economic development of the state, removed "eastern Texas."	Amy Tikkanen Tracy Terrall	May 02, 2013
	Updated geologic time data.	Richard Pallardy	May 25, 2010
	Article thoroughly revised.	John P. Rafferty	Jan 25, 2007
	Added new Web site: New Mexico Tech - Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains.	Kokila Manchanda	Jan 16, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998