 | | Report (issue) | | OF SALT DOMES IN GULF COAST REGION OF TEXAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA By R. Ernest Anderson...numbers 185 and 189. Scale Model of Tatum Salt Dome CONTENTS Page Abstract---------------------...-------- 26 Geology, northern Gulf Coast salt-dome province--------------- 27 Factors related to...------ 34 Hydrology, northern Gulf Coast salt-dome province------------- 34 Surface water-------...----------------------- 35 Northeast Texas salt-dome basin------------------------------- 43 Physiography |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clay about 50 feet above the caprock at Hackley dome, Texas. (Stenzel, 1946). Crystalline masses 1 to...caprock at Belle Isle dome, Louisiana (Vaughn, 1926). At Rayburn's dome in Louisiana barite occurs with...oil wells at Saratoga dome' (Moore, 1914) and later from wells at Batson dome (Harton and Mason, 1926)...a green fluorescent matrix were found at Fannett dome, Texas. Small (up to 1 mm.) scalenohedrons and rhombohedrons...domes just above the sulfur zone. At Hoskins Mound dome, Texas it makes up to 50 percent of the composition |  | | Report (issue) | | in salt from the Rayburn and Vacherie domes, Louisiana Edwin Roedder and H.E. Bel kin U.S. Geological...samples from the Rayburn and Vacherie salt domes in Louisiana were examined for fluid inclusions, in connection...Rayburn dome, Bienville Parish, LA (D.O.E.-C.F.I, no. 1 core), and ten from the Vacherie dome, Webster...Webster Parish, LA (D.O.E. Smith no. 1 core), from the core storage rooms at the Louisiana State University...salt from the upper level of the mine in Week's dome, ~600' below surface, was also obtained. Procedures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | art icle is to give a complete description of salt dome mineral occurrences from previously published sources...the Gulf coastal plain of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico (Figure '1). In the Mississippi-Alabama...Mississippi-Alabama area there are 53 domes. Louisiana has 28 in the northern area and 95 in the southern area...below the present land surface. The salt mass of the dome may be at or near the surface but generally it is...salt. Damon Mound dome in Texas has a surface mound 80 feet high. Jefferson Lake dome in ROCKS AND MINERALS |  | | Report (issue) | | crystals, from one of the Five Islands salt domes, Louisiana. Figure 2. Polished face of same specimen enlarged_____________...the solution of salt from shaft on Hockley salt dome, Texas. Figure 4. Anhydrite crystals residual from...lenses of disseminated anhydrite from Brenham salt dome, Texas. Figure 7. Detail of polished face of same...banded anhydrite cap rock and salt from Hockley salt dome, Harris County, Tex____________________ 28. Figure...anhydrite cap rock on Bay St. Elaine salt dome, Terrebonne Parish, La__ 108 ILLUSTRATIONS III Page 37 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEOCHEMISTRY OF WATER-ROCK INTERACTIONS IN RICHTON DOME CAP ROCK (SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI, U.S.A.) M A...geochemistry of watery-rock interactions in Richton Dome cap rock (southeastern Mississippi, U.S.A.). In:...the Salt Dome Environment. Chem. Geol., 74: 113-135. Cap rock at Richton Dome consists of gypsum-veined...during dissolution of the salt stock without forming gypsum, indicating temperatures >/60 °C and NaC1 salinity...sidesof the dome during calcitecap rock formation. Petrographic analysissuggeststhat gypsum veins in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Netherlands 1 FLUID-ROCK INTERACTIONS IN THE SALT DOME ENVIRONMENT: AN INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW HARRY H...Vocherie Weeks I s l a n d West H o c k b e r r y Winnfield • !~ TEXAS -WN t.- I~IK ° ~ . W H .......w<:':'. "-J :. ..:... .-'" ', ,- .... ,( LOUISIANA ."/ r ",, P~G • • "_. / / k i 2 0 0 krn...Gulf ~0 r ; -" /. . --~_ (/ • .' ,-'" Salt dome , i ;' , ,,. Salt m a s s i f -26 ° // /...drilling; elsewhere, salt samples consist of salt dome materials. The Louann probably reaches thicknesses |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | flooding of the salt mine at Jeferson Island salt dome, Louisiana (Groat, l98l) apparently started from a drilling...truncated by smooth, undulatory Much bedded and most dome salt does not show surfacesbeyond which the salt...obvious; all sionsdiscussedup to this point. drite (or gypsum) grains for each cycle. For example, in the Michigan...single crystal of recrysrallized salt from Gibson dome, Paradox basin, Utah, showing large unidentified...24). As in beddedsalt, true daughterminerals in dome salt are more common if potassiumsalts are present |  | | Report (volume) | | Louann salt of southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana._________ General features of salt domes ________...__________--___-____--_--____--_-_.-__-_-___-_-______ Louisiana. ___________--__-_-___-___---_--___------_-_----_--__...Louann salt in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.______________________________ 5. Structure section...are at depths of 1,300 to 4,300 feet. Interbedded gypsum, shale, and salt are known in the subsurface in...Jurassicage underlie southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, and northeastern Texas, but are believed to pinch |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CAP-ROCK Zn-Pb-Sr-Ba OCCURRENCE AT THE HAZLEHURST SALT DOME, MISSISSIPPI JAMESA. SAUNDERS Department of Geology...sediments (Rainwater, Hockley (Texas)and Winnfield (Louisiana)domes, LouannSaltisthe principalevapare...Hazdissolution andbrecciation; and(4) apparentlowtemlehurst dome due to a sparsity of drilling data.The peratureof...geneticlink betweenMississippi Valwell) indicates that the dome has a caprocksimilarto ley-typedeposits andsedimentary...thisoc1), drilled near the approximate centerof the dome, currencemayprovidesomeinsightsinto the genesis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE ORIGIN OF CALCITE CAP ROCK AT DAMON MOUND SALT DOME, TEXAS, U.S.A. JAMES D. PRIKRYL, HARRY H. POSEY*...the origin of calcite cap rock at Damon Mound salt dome, Texas, U.S.A. In: H.H. Posey and J.R. Kyle (Guest-Editors)...(Guest-Editors), Fluid-Rock Interactions in the Salt Dome Environment. Chem. Geol., 74: 67-97. Calcite cap...The major lithologies of salt dome cap rocks (anhydrite, calcite and gypsum ) commonly are believed to form...other permeable zones and hydrate anhydrite to gypsum (see Werner et al., 1988 in this special issue) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALIZATION DURING ANHYDRITE CAP ROCK FORMATION, HOCKLEY DOME, TEXAS, U.S.A. J. RICHARD KYLE and WILLIAM N. AGEE...mineralization during anhydrite cap rock formation, Hockley Dome, Texas, U.S.A. In: H.H. Posey and J.R. Kyle (Guest-Editors)...(Guest-Editors), FluidRock Interactions in the Salt Dome Environment. Chem. Geol., 74: 37-55. Metal zonation...the sulfidedepositing system at the Hockley salt dome. The general metal trend observed is an overall...J34S-values of sulfide minerals within the Hockley Dome cap rock range from - 3 0 to +4%o (CDT) (59 analyses) |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY New Orleans, Louisiana, 1970 INDEX [The numbers refer to cnlnu ,n...R ,Jr 09812 Louisiana. Missb,1ppi Delta, lobes. peat: Frazier, David E 1111 J Louisiana. southern. Quaternary...Quaternary deposit,;: Broecker. \\ . S. 00865 Louisiana. southern. Quaternary deposits. late: McFarlan...uranium series dating: Broecker. W. S. 00866 Louisiana. K -Ar, Mississippi dellaic sediments: Hurley...Gas Journal. 07718 Petroleum, Clarke County, sail dome. deepseated: Oil and Gas Journal. 10024 Petroleum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ....................... 575 H istory o í saline dome developments......................................followed in June,1912, by one on quaquaversal or dome structures.18 A few facts were added in 191319 and...in every case. The idea that every anticline or dome holds oil is as frequent and erroneous as is the...Indiana, Illinois, Mid-Continent, Wyoming, northern Louisiana, and some of the California fields in this country...that country from sands of Lower Neocene age, where dome structure is well displayed. The Bibi-Eibat field |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Branch, and rolled in round balls."—on label. LOUISIANA—Mark W. Mitchell, 820 Tulane, Lafayette, La.,...that most of the salt from the mines in South Louisiana is massive and without ROCKS AND MINERALS good...crystals I have are from the Winnfield dome in North Central Louisiana. I hope to get up there soon and...Co., Okla., we have some round, gray selenite (gypsum) nodules—3 of them. One has been sanded and sprayed...seem to be a gypsum ball coated with selenite. ROCKS AND MINERALS In some specimens the gypsum is almost |  | | Report (issue) | | AND UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BY !. C. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT................................... Development of dome-like folds....-----------.----..--------.-------...Ouachita and Mississippi 'flood plains at the Louisiana-Arkansas State line.............................the Tertiary and Quaternary strata of northern Louisiana..-...--........ ..~....... Ill CHAPTEE IV UNDERGROUND.........---.....------..-.------. 129 Northern Louisiana.............................................. |  | | Book | | the publisher FOREWORD Sixty years ago the Louisiana Geological Survey published "Rock Salt. Its Origin...Occurrences and Economic Importance in the' State of Louisiana, Together with Brief Notes and References to All...••••••..•••••••••••.•...•.•......••......... Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • . • . •...• • . • • • • . • . • . Gulf Coast Region - Salt Dome Basins and Domes. . . . . . . . . . . • • • • •.... . . • . . . . . • . . . • . • Salt Domes - Louisiana. . • . . . • . . . • . • • . . . . . . . . . |  | | Book | | Provinee, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, USA D.L. Leaeh ........................................Valley-Type Mud Volcano Mass at Deeaturville, Missouri, USA R.A. Zimmermann and M. Sehidlowski . . . . . . ....et al. (this Vol.) note that although known salt dome-hosted zine-lead metal deposits are of modest grade...Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA Spec. Publ. No. 10 Soc. Geol. Applied to Mineral...the Pine Point deposit. In the Elmwood deposit (USA), Gize (1990) found petrographie evidenee for multiple |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | o r s . T e r t i a r y , Recent and synthetic gypsum have 534S within + 2 ° 0 of the +20%0 of m o d...determinations in which r e c r y s t a l l i z e d gypsum was reduced by metallic iron at 850°C for 30 min...t u r e d u r i n g b u r i a l to about 300 m, gypsum b e c o m e s u n s t a b l e and t r a n s f o...r d i s s o l v e them. SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL GYPSUM FROM RECENT SEA WATER D i s s o l v e d s u l...i m i l a r 534S v a l u e s , and R e c e n t gypsum d e p o s i t s have a somewhat w i d e r r a n |  | | Report (issue) | | References for Table 4.2.2. Table 4.2.2. 16 2 Gypsum, assorted 2 5 5 8 6 8 7 11 3.5 0.4 0.5 0.59 1...Wellington Fm., KS Salt, rock, Winnfield dome Salt, rock, Grand Saline dome, TX 12 Non-clastic, sediments...10 3 Gypsum 3.42 1.32 1.3 0.3 0.3 Minimum 28.4 4 Gypsum, Castile, West TX Gypsum, Paris Basin...Basin Gypsum 21 Anhydrite Number of Samples 14 Rock Porosities of Evaporites (percent) (each rock...8 Sandstone, Tensleep Fm., Oregon Basin, South Dome, WY, cores from 12 wells 3.46 Sandstone 24.8 |  | | Book | | present and past.20 Primary evaporite salts. 22 Gypsum beds.□ 23 Halite beds (chevrons and crusts).26...stylolites.50 Evaporites as uplift indicators.51 Fibrous gypsum and halite (satinspar).52 Saline clay authigenesis...Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South America.187 Ephemeral stream...salinas of Australia.222 Carbonate salinas.223 Gypsum salinas .□ 227 Halite salinas. 230 Coastal salinas...300 Lacustrine evaporites.301 Eocene Lake Gosuite, USA.304 Oligo-Miocene lake, Calatayud Basin, Spain.306 |  | | Book | | evaporation of sea water—are the calcium sulphates gypsum (CaSO,.2H,O) and anhydrite (CaSO,). Next in order...Glauberite Na,SO,.CaSO, Incongruent melting with gypsum ppn. 335 (50° C.) Sharp. Faintly salty. Glauber...(SO,),H,O Incongruent melting with gypsum ppn. Bitter. Gypsum CaSO,.2H,O 2-0 (20° C.) Tasteless... na 1-570||e nB aeven. By metamorphism of gypsum with i i 1-575]|b | ny halite in hartsalz replaced...1-614||a + 0-044 + 2V9 43-7° polyhalite hydrated to gypsum. r < b weak one. mehoidal. 3-0-3-2 2-2 Colorless |  | | Book (volume) | | Alabama, Mississippi, northern Arkansas and Louisiana. He first crossed the Mississippi River below...below Memphis, Tennessee, and died near Ferriday, Louisiana on April 21, 1542. The rest of the expedition...tributaries for Louis XIV of France and named it Louisiana. He was followed a few years later by Pierre de...d'lberville, who took up the task of colonizing Louisiana in the name of the French crown. The early navigators...the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain, in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The physiographic |  | | Report (issue) | | and others, 1963, p. 367) and sulfates such as gypsum (Bergman and Blankenburg, 1964). Simultaneous occurrence...percent of the gas in inclusions from the Winnfield salt dome, and Ackermann, Schrader, and Hoffmann (1964)...between them. Thus salt core from the Tuzandeptl salt dome (Jurassic age) in Vera Cruz, Mexico, obtained through...high calcium contents, although the solubility of gypsum in chloride brines is increased fourfold by the...analysis (table 6, analysis 15) of large inclusions in gypsum from the famous Girgenti (now Agrigento) sulfur |  | | Book (volume) | | 329 ? t. •S' Cover Photo: San Francisco Area, USA, Petrochemical Refinery at Sunrise - Towers Sillouette...reservoirs. examples are evaporites (rock salt and gypsum) and Geophysical logs that measure certain physical...earth and be lost to the atmosphere traps, salt dome traps, fault traps, and stratigraphic through a...reservoir rock (sandstone) Anticline Trap Salt Dome Trap impermeable cap rock (shale permeable reservoir...percentage. A tact with an impermeable rock. Salt-dome traps form freshly contains where bodies of salt |
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