Batson Salt Dome, Batson, Hardin Co., Texas, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 16' North , 94° 36' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 30.26690,-94.60022 |
Köppen climate type: | Cfa : Humid subtropical climate |
A salt deposit located 2.1 km (1.3 miles) NNE of Batson. Discovered in 1903 by the Paraffin Oil Company. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Surface gas seeps and paraffin dirt noticed as early as 1900. Oil, condensate and gas production from 1903 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 329.18 meters. The depth to caprock is 108 feet and to the salt it is 2,050 feet. Local rocks include Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly clay.
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Regional Geology
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Pleistocene 0.0117 - 2.588 Ma ID: 2782743 | Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly clay Age: Pleistocene (0.0117 - 2.588 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Beaumont Formation Comments: On McAllen-Brownsville Sheet (1976) dominantly clay and mud of low permeability. (from Moore and Wermund, 1993a, 1993b): Light- to dark-gray and bluish- to greenish-gray clay and silt, intermixed and interbedded; contains beds and lenses of fine sand, decayed organic matter, and many buried organic-rich, oxidized soil(?) zones that contain calcareous and ferruginous nodules. Very lt. gray to v. lt. yell-gray sediment cemented by calcium carbonate present in varied forms, veins, laminar zones, burrows, root casts, nodules. Locally, small gypsum crystals present. Includes plastic and compressible clay and mud deposited in flood basins, coastal lakes, and former stream channels on a deltaic plain. Disconformably overlies Lissie Fm. Thickness 5-10 m along north edge of outcrop; thickens southward in subsurface to more than 100 m. 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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