Digital data of subsurface isopach and structural features from the Palo Duro Basin and Texas Panhandle

The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Geologic Synthesis Project is engaged in data preservation and compilation across the United States. As a part of this broader effort, this data release serves digitized structure contour, isopach, and fault lines from a series of previously published maps of the Palo Duro Basin and the surrounding uplifts within the Texas Panhandle (Dutton 1980; Dutton 1982; Ruppel 1985; Johns 1988; Cronin 1969). The Palo Duro basin is a large Paleozoic rift basin in the southern part of the Texas Panhandle and is a structural extension of the Hollis Hardeman basin (east) and Tucumcari Basin (west). The basin is located south of the Anadarko basin, Dalhart Basin, Amarillo uplift, and north of the Matador Arch and Midland Basin. Lithostratigraphic or chronostratigraphic units within this data release include the Precambrian crystalline basement, basal Cambrian siliciclastics, lower Ordovician Ellenburger group, Mississippian series including the Chester, Barnett, Meramec, Osage, and Kinderhook, Pennsylvanian system, Permian Wolfcampian series, Triassic Dockum Group, and the Tertiary Ogallala Formation. Elevation of the top and base of these sedimentary units are served as structure contours, while unit thickness is recorded as isopach contours. Major faults are represented by polylines indicating the intersection of the fault plane with select stratigraphic horizons. This data is presented in a subsurface 3D standardized format, S3DS, including nonspatial tabular data, and metadata.