Brooks Salt Dome, Teaselville, Smith Co., Texas, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Brooks Salt Dome | Dome |
| Teaselville | - not defined - |
| Smith Co. | County |
| Texas | State |
| USA | Country |
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32° 9' 42'' North , 95° 26' 38'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee City | 279 (2017) | 7.3km |
| Berryville | 1,014 (2017) | 8.6km |
| Noonday | 777 (2011) | 9.0km |
| Moore Station | 199 (2017) | 11.8km |
| Bullard | 2,832 (2017) | 11.9km |
A salt-gypsum-limestone-chalk deposit located 4.0 km (2.5 miles) WNW of Teaselville, on the shore of Saline Bay of Lake Palestine (15 miles SW of Tyler), on private land. Discovered in 1865. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Solution mining of salt was conducted during the civil war. The Austin chalk was quarried on the N side of the dome and was used as flux for iron smelters at Rusk in 1885.
Mineralization is a salt dome deposit (Mineral occurrence model information: Model code: 252; USGS model code: 35a.4 (35ad); Deposit model name: Salt domes: diapiric salt structures), hosted in the Late Jurassic Louann Salt and limestone. The ore body is a diapir with a thickness of 6,400.8 meters, width of 5,310.69 meters, length of 5,632.55 meters, and a depth-to-top of 59.44 meters. The caprock is 20 to 268 feet thick at a depth of 195 feet, and to the salt it is 220 feet and to the Louann Salt it is 21,000 feet. This deposit also classifies as USGS model gypsum (35A.6) limestone.
Local geologic structures include doming.
Workings include wells and a chalk quarry. There is one shut-in oil well.
Reserve-Resource data are found in: Halbouty, Michel T. (1979) & American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1983), Bulletin: 67: 1263.
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4 valid minerals.
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| β Anhydrite Formula: CaSO4 Reference: U.S. Geological Survey,2005,Mineral Resources Data System :U.S. Geological Survey,Reston, Virginia |
| β Calcite Formula: CaCO3 Reference: U.S. Geological Survey,2005,Mineral Resources Data System :U.S. Geological Survey,Reston, Virginia |
| β Gypsum Formula: CaSO4 · 2H2O Reference: U.S. Geological Survey,2005,Mineral Resources Data System :U.S. Geological Survey,Reston, Virginia |
| β Halite Formula: NaCl Reference: U.S. Geological Survey,2005,Mineral Resources Data System :U.S. Geological Survey,Reston, Virginia |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | Halite | 3.AA.20 | NaCl |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| β | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| β | Anhydrite | 7.AD.30 | CaSO4 |
| β | Gypsum | 7.CD.40 | CaSO4 Β· 2H2O |
List of minerals arranged by Dana 8th Edition classification
| Group 9 - NORMAL HALIDES | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| AX | |||
| β | Halite | 9.1.1.1 | NaCl |
| Group 14 - ANHYDROUS NORMAL CARBONATES | |||
| A(XO3) | |||
| β | Calcite | 14.1.1.1 | CaCO3 |
| Group 28 - ANHYDROUS ACID AND NORMAL SULFATES | |||
| AXO4 | |||
| β | Anhydrite | 28.3.2.1 | CaSO4 |
| Group 29 - HYDRATED ACID AND NORMAL SULFATES | |||
| AXO4·xH2O | |||
| β | Gypsum | 29.6.3.1 | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | β Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | β Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | β Anhydrite | CaSO4 |
| O | β Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | β Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| Na | Sodium | |
| Na | β Halite | NaCl |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | β Anhydrite | CaSO4 |
| S | β Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| Cl | Chlorine | |
| Cl | β Halite | NaCl |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | β Anhydrite | CaSO4 |
| Ca | β Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | β Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
References
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Year (asc) Year (desc) Author (A-Z) Author (Z-A)Halbouty, Michel T. (1979), Salt Domes - Gulf Coast, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas: 129, Table 8-5.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1983), Bulletin: 67: 1263.
Jackson, M.P.A., et al (1984), Atlas of Salt Domes in the East Texas Basin. Texas Bureau of Environment and Geology Report of Investigation RI 140.
USGS (2005), Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, loc. file ID #10063135.
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| USGS MRDS Record: | 10063135 |
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Brooks Salt Dome, Teaselville, Smith Co., Texas, USA