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Castile formation handsample

Permian, West Texas Delaware Basin, from a carbonate depositional environments field trip led by Lon Jacka of Texas Tech in about 1982. Alternating white gypsum and gray limestone.

Field of view is just over 1" square.

 

Candidate for Macro Mondays Layer

 

Probably any current of former sedimentary geologist has quite a few layered rocks lying around to photograph. I chose 3 for this project, but there were easily a dozen more to consider.

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Uploaded on March 28, 2020
Taken on March 28, 2020