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The Permian Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the southwestern part of the United States.
The basin contains the Mid-Continent Oil Field province.
This sedimentary basin is located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
It reaches from just south of Lubbock, past Midland and Odessa, south nearly to the Rio Grande River in southern West Central Texas, and extending westward into the southeastern part of New Mexico.
It is so named because it has one of the world's thickest deposits of rocks from the Permian geologic period.
The greater Permian Basin comprises several component basins; of these, the Midland Basin is the largest, Delaware Basin is the second largest, and Marfa Basin is the smallest.
The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles and extends across an area approximately 250 miles wide and 300 miles long.

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The basin contains the Mid-Continent Oil Field province.

Uh, no one calls it that. The Mid-Continent is considered Oklahoma and Kansas.