“…2). Preserved sedimentary rocks tend to be cyclic, reflecting the complex interaction of glacioeustastic events, regional tectonics, reciprocal sedimentation and sediment accumulation, facies migration, and diagenesis (Oriel and others, 1967;Scholle and Halley, 1980;Miall, 2008;Chen and others, 2013). The stratigraphic complexities of Permian strata is best demonstrated by the multitude of formal and informal stratigraphic units with multiple rank designations applied to the many rock-stratigraphic units occurring across the basin and discussed previously (Oriel and others, 1967;Ward and others, 1986;Dutton and others, 2004;Ruppel, 2008).…”