Port Neches Salt Dome (Bessie Heights), Vidor, Orange Co., Texas, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 3' North , 93° 58' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 30.05024,-93.96687 |
| Köppen climate type: | Cfa : Humid subtropical climate |
A salt deposit located 10.2 km (6.3 miles) SSE of Vidor and 12.8 km (7.9 miles) ESE of Beaumont, on private land. Discovered in 1928. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Oil, condensate and gas production from 1929 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 2,940.71 meters. No caprock is present. Local rocks include rocks of the Deweyville Formation.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
Regional Geology
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| Holocene - Pleistocene 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 2782123 | Deweyville Formation Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Deweyville Formation Comments: sand, silt, clay, and gravel. locally indurated with calcium carbonate (caliche); includes point bar, natural levee, stream channel, and locally, Recent and older sand dune deposits; surface shows relict meanders of much larger radius of curvature than those of present streams; thickness 50+ ft. Present at places along Guadalupe, Nueces, Jacinto, Trinity, Neches, and Sabine Rivers. Lithology: Major:{coarse alluvium,fine 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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