 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SALT DOME, BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS1 PAUL L. APPLIN Southern Pacific Company, Houston, Texas ABSTRACT The...Gulf Coast salt dome. It has a low topographic mound. Salt and cap rock have been drilled into in many...part of Brazoria County, Texas, about 10 miles south of Angleton, and 7 miles north of Freeport. Both of...between Hoskins Mound on the north and Bryan Heights on the south, both in Brazoria County. 1 Published...salt. They did, however, prove the presence of gypsum and anhydrite on this dome, which induced furt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 8y ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 9118 Concho, Houston, Texas Barite has been reported from super caprock formations...about 50 feet above the caprock at Hackley dome, Texas. (Stenzel, 1946). Crystalline masses 1 to 7 inches...and Mason, 1926). Both domes are in Hardin County, Texas. White to bluish gray barite oolites and pisolites...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 911 8 Concho, Houston, Texas The purpose of this art icle is to give a complete...the author from 5 years of collecting at various Texas domes. Unfortunately most specimen material is from...coastal plain of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico (Figure '1). In the Mississippi-Alabama...the coast. In Texas there are 55 in the central area, 6 in the south, and 18 in East Texas. In Mexico there...expression to indicate their subsurface existence. A mound caused by uplift is conspicuous on a few. Others |  | | Report (issue) | | HYDROLOGIC SUMMARY OF SALT DOMES IN GULF COAST REGION OF TEXAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA By R. Ernest...water-------------------- ----------------------- 35 Northeast Texas salt-dome basin------------------------------- ...water---------------------------------------- 73 East Texas-south Louisiana salt-dome basin--------------------...------- Hydrology--- --- -- -------- South Texas salt-dome basin-----------------------------------...------------- ---------------- 101 Northeast Texas salt-dome basin-------------------------- 102 |  | | Book | | nel oles Engineer Houston, Texas Gur PusLisHinc CoMPANY Houston, TEXAS SALT DOMES Gulf Region—United...Copyright © 1967 by Gulf Publishing Company Houston, Texas Printed in the United States of America. This book...structures are located in the Gulf States—chiefly in Texas and Louisiana —and in the states of Veracruz and...data sheets are also provided for the eleven Texas and Louisiana Domes which have been chosen...by separate domes. They are also indexed by the county, parish or offshore block in which each particular |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BIG HILL SALT DOME, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS ALBERT G. WOLt Gulf, Texas ABSTRACT Big Hill, Matagorda,...Gull Coast suit dome and has a distinct salt-dome mound, a subcircular salt core intruded into Tertiary...the cap. INTRODUCTION Big Hill, Matagorda County, Texas, is i mile from the shore of Matagorda Bay,...Santa Fe Railway extends to the sulphur mine of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company now operating there. This dome...search for oil, but the BIG HILL SALT DOME, TEXAS 713 existence of sulphur was remembered, and this |  | | Report (issue) | | biogenic sulfur deposits that form in the anhydrite-gypsum caprocks of salt domes. They differ from other...cementing porosity and replacing matrix of anhydrite-gypsum-limestone caprock of salt domes. Sulfur is produced...gas; salt-dome salt; caprock limestone; caprock gypsum; polymetallic sulflde/sulfate and strontium sulfide/sulfate...ATTRIBUTES Host rock(s): Limestone-anhydrite-(gypsum) caprock of salt domes. Associated rock(s): Salt...mineralogy: Calcite, anhydrite (sometimes hydrated to gypsum). Alteration: Oil-bearing anhydrite caprock altered |  | | Report (issue) | | ¥ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateur’s Guide ;s ROSELLE M. GIRARD A b OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V N IVERSITY...The University of Texas Austin, Texas Peter T. Flawn, Director Guidebook 6 TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS...Rock identification charts Descriptions of some Texas rocks and minerals Anhydrite ............................................... ................... Gypsum ....................................... .........Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47 |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | Absolute ate, dates Carbo11 /4 Continental shelf. Texas, sediments: t:mer), K. 0. 10996 Florida· Bullen...University Laboratory: Rusnak. G . A 04425 Texas. Atascosa County, water. Carrizo Sand: Pearson, F J_, Jr...J .. Jr. I 1499 Texas. Lampasas River terraces. shells: Cheatum. E. P. I 1348 Texas University laboratory...D . Jr. 06236 Chocta-.. County. map: Toulmin. L. D . 1)6256 Chocta-.. County. Quitman fault zone, reconnaissance...Tounelot, H A . 06226 Clar,e County. along State Highwa) 69 and County Highway 15, cross section Toulmin |  | | Report (issue) | | Fisher, Director The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78713 I I Foreword The Bureuu of...szibmitt~dto t h e Office of the G o v e r ~ o rof Texas and (2) permi? upplicotivns [!lot aresllbrnitted...Reclornaticrn Division of lhe Ruilrcltld Commission of Texas and to the Envirclnmenrul clnd CO~SIIHIPT FI(:'cllfh...and thc public. RESEARCH AND PUBLIC SERVICE IN TEXAS RESOURCES AND GEOLOGY COASTAL STUDIES ENVIRONMENTAL...Road Austin, Texas 78758 (512) 471-7721 (512) 471-1534 Mailing address llniversity of Texas at Austin Jniversity |  | | 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...California.243 Lake levels and conditions.244 Tufa mound and pinnacles.244 Hydrological and hydrogeochemical |  | | Report (issue) | | is commonly interbedded with limestone (CaC03), gypsum (Ca5Oj*2H20), anhydride (Ca50 J, sylvite (KC1)...hundred meters thick, consisting of anhyclrite, gypsum, calcite, and perhaps free sulfur. These minerals...Aerial photograph of the surface features at Bryan Mound, Louisiana, a site of the Strategic Petroleum...wells may also be gas storage well No. 2, Boling, Texas. At an operdrilled if needed. The drill rig is then...for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in Texas and Louisiana [see http://vmrw.fe.doe.gov-/spr/spr |  | | Book | | . • . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....•.••••••...• . • • • . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • • West Texas - Eastern New Mexico . • . . . . . . . . . . . ...• • • • • . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . 99 Texas. . . . . . • . • . • . . . • . • . • . • • • • •...Mexico and Texas - Salt Thickness of the Salado Formation. • • • • • • • • • New Mexico and Texas - Salt.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salt Domes - Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (volume) | | _______________________ 9. A, Armadillos in central Texas; B, Fault in Buda limestone northwest of Hondo,...Coastal Plain of southern Louisiana and eastern Texas, with ample rainfall and thick rich soils, is a...and clay of alluvial origin. In central-eastern Texas the Coastal Plain is higher, the soil conditions...elevation, and much of the plateau in south-central Texas is 2,000 feet above sea level in its eastern part...Mississippi and landed instead at Matagorda Bay, in Texas, near which he was murdered in 1687. In 1699 Pierre |  | Kogel, Jessica Elzea, Trivedi, Nikhil C., Barker, James M., Krukowski, Stanley T. - Eds. (2006) Industrial Minerals and Rocks (7th ed.) Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., Littleton, CO. | Book (edition) | | (SME) 8307 Shaffer Parkway Littleton, Colorado, USA 80127 (303) 948-4200 / (800) 763-3132 www.smenet... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gypsum and Anhydrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gypsum Plasters and Wallboards . . . . . . . . . . . ...enterprises such as Ray Consolidated Copper Co., Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., and Cyprus Mining Corp. Colonel...Survey Reston, Virginia Roger D. Sharpe U.S. Gypsum Company Chicago, Illinois Virginia T. McLemore |  | | Book (volume) | | Geological Sciences The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Box 7909 Austin, Texas 78713-7909 Acknowledgment Publication...Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ii Contents...Bureau of Economic Geology of the University of Texas deserves special mention—it contributed authors...Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box 7909, Austin, Texas 78713-7909 THE GULF OF MEXICO—DISCOVERY...Grande embayment; 19, San Marcos arch; 20, East Texas basin; 21, Sabine uplift; 22, North Louisiana salt |  | | Journal (volume) | | systems are used to get S from volcanic ores and gypsum and how to cut S usage. 8 pp, 1968....... Sulphur...shale test lease sale on three tracts in Rio Blanco County, Colo., last month (see further details on p. 15)...Mission Manufacturing Co., P. O. Box 4209, Houston, Texas 77014, Cable Address: “‘Missco,”’ Export Office:...only of large supplies potentially available from gypsum processing (among other sources) without much...at Gulf ports, La. and Tex., It., eff. Mar. 6, Freeport eff. Mar. 1 on spot, June 1 on contract. bright |  | | Report (issue) | | Tennessee___________________________________________ 88 Texas -----------------------------------------------...Cobalt Copper Diamond Auorite (CaF2 ) Gold Graphite Gypsum-anhydrite Iron (ore) Kyanite group (Al2Si05 ) Lead...deposit is known in the entire world.) GYP stands for gypsum (and anhydrite). The iron sulfides (principally...PERSHCOURT, FREBERT) CARPENTIER TP. DELESTRE TP. (FREEPORT) CARPENTIER TP. LA CORNE TP. (QUE LITHIUM) LA...RED ORE AREA WOODSTOCK BROWN ORE AREA TALLADEGA COUNTY DEPOSIT HATCHET CREEK PROSPECT TALLADEGA DISTRICT |  | | Report (issue) | | Tennessee________________________ USTN _________ 67 Texas ---------------------------- USTX _________ 68 Utah...(CONI GO) DELBREUIL TP. (LAC SIMARD) DELESTRE TP. (FREEPORT) DESJARDINS TP. (FLORDIN) DESMELOIZES TP. (NORMETAL)...& MIDNIGHT CREEK GROUNDHOG BASIN, GLACIER BASIN GYPSUM CREEK MINE HARVISON HETTA INLET (COPPER MTN, JUMBO...ORE DISTRICT STONE HILL (WOODS) MINE TALLADEGA COUNTY DEPOSIT TALLADEGA DISTRICT WOODSTOCK BROWN ORE...BROWN ORE DISTRICT NORTHERN ARKANSAS DISTRICT PIKE COUNTY PINK GREEN AND BEULAH GREEN DEPOSITS POTASH SPRINGS |  | | Book (volume) | | 329 ? t. •S' Cover Photo: San Francisco Area, USA, Petrochemical Refinery at Sunrise - Towers Sillouette...yet to be discovered. 340 Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Addresses Offshore Wells Earth Materials...reservoirs. examples are evaporites (rock salt and gypsum) and Geophysical logs that measure certain physical...Oil Well Drilling. 6 th ed. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 2000. An introduc¬ tion to the procedures...exploration. The training textbook for factors. West Texas Geological Society. Geological Examples in many |  | | Journal (volume) | | I . . — — . "Grubstaker" Gypsum Specifications, Revised Gypsum Trade Specifications 801 Feldspar...general recognition of the fact that gold mining gypsum has been found and will open up a new field for...in such localities as North and South Dakota and Texas. • Work done in North Dakota. For many years it...profitably from the limestone beds of Louisiana and Texas. All efforts our mineral resources are extremely...vertical as at Monson, Mam.' or hi eastern Northamton County, Pa., the quarries are deep ami relatively restricted |
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