For many years the question of the possibility of finding petroleum and natural gas, in commercial quantities, in the Kansas-Oklahoma-Texas Red beds has been of interest, both to the geologist and to the practical oil man.A number of attempts have been made to find these products in the Red beds of these three states, but until recently, none of these attempts have been successful.For many years geologists who have studied the region have believed, and apparently with reason, that the chances for finding oil or gas in the Red beds were so poor that they were unable to give encouragement to the driller.Within the past few months considerable .drillinghas been accomplished in vari,ous parts in Oklahoma arid Texas, and results obtained in certain localities seem .tojustify the belief in the possibilities of finding oil and gas in certain parts of the Red beds, which have heretofore been considered unproductive.This article is intended to present, in brief form, certain known facts connected with the occurrence, stratigraphy, and structure of the Red beds, and t.o draw certain tentative conclu-
As the result of the work of a number of geologists in northern Oklahoma during the past few years, the Enid formation which, as originally generally described, included the Permian red beds of Oklahoma below the Blaine gypsum, is subdivided into six formations, named in ascending order, the Stillwater, Wellington, Garber, Hennessey, Duncan, and Chickasha. This paper, written as the result of a field conference in this region in March, 1926, describes these various formations and discusses their correlation.
