Hull Salt Dome, Daisetta, Liberty Co., Texas, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 7' 0'' North , 94° 38' 30'' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 30.11690,-94.64189 |
Köppen climate type: | Cfa : Humid subtropical climate |
A salt deposit located 0.5 km (0.3 mile) NNE of Daisetta center (under the entire city), and about 2 miles due S of the town of Hull, on private land. Discovered in 1908. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Oil, condensate and gas production from 1918. Now used for the underground storage of liquid petroleum gas.
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 79.25 meters. The depth to caprock is 260 feet, and to the salt it is 595 feet. Local rocks include rocks of the Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly clay.
Commodity List
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1 valid mineral.
Regional Geology
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Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 3186031 | Cenozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Lithology: Sedimentary rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
Pleistocene 0.0117 - 2.588 Ma ID: 2792537 | 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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