Clam Lake Salt Dome (Clam Lake Oil Field), Clam Lake, Jefferson Co., Texas, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 29° 42' 30'' North , 94° 6' 30'' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 29.70858,-94.10853 |
Köppen climate type: | Cfa : Humid subtropical climate |
A salt deposit located along the N shore of Clam Lake and about 12.5 miles S10E of Labelle, on private land. Discovered in 1937. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Oil and gas production has been occurring since 1937 to present.
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. The ore body is a diapir with a depth-to-top of 2,491.13 meters. No caprock is present. Local rocks include alluvium.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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Holocene 0 - 0.0117 Ma ID: 3004981 | Alluvium Age: Anthropocene (0 - 0.0117 Ma) Description: alluvium and low terrace deposits along streams, sand, silt, clay, and gravel. Thickness variable. The unit appears on Geologic Map of Texas on the lagoon side of barrier islands where they represent lagoon and wind-tidal-flat sand and clay. These deposits of clay and silty, clayey fine to v. fine quartz sand and shell sand accumulate on alternately dry and flooded barren flats 0.3 m below to 1 m above mean sea level. Mapped areas include active eolian sand dunes on the landward side of barrier islands. Lithology: Major:{fine alluvium,coarse alluvium} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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