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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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...five-League Grant, in the southern part of Brazoria County, Texas, about 10 miles south of Angleton, and...midway 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 |
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| COASTAL SALT DOMES. ByWiu.iAM KENNEDY, Fort Worth, Texas. (Tulsa Meeting, February. 1917. j The geology...River westward across the states of Louisiana and Texas, and for many miles southward into the Mexican State...increasing as we go south and west until in Cameron County in Texas and Tamaulipas in Mexico, it may be said, the...Colorado, together with the Neches and Sabine in Texas; the Calcasieu, Mermentau and bayous in western...particularly true in southern Louisiana and southeastern Texas as far west as the Colorado River. West of this |
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| abundance studies were carried out on core samples from Texas and Louisiana sulphur wells. In these wells native...which usually lies between a layer of anhydrite and gypsum, all of which form the cap rock of salt domes....up ahead of the salt. Whereas, the calcite and gypsum are thought to have been formed by direct alteration...than the associated rock. 297 The Hoskins mound salt dome in Texas is roughly circular and approsimatel)...the calcitic limestone layer. t,he anhydrit,e and gypsum layers are low in porosity. Small amounts of calcite |
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| the bacterial reduction of sulfates. particularly gypsum and anhydrite. a process that has resulted in many...sulfides, particularly pyrite and pyrrhotite, during mine fires or simply during chemical weathering. Although...been found in cavities associated with celestine, gypsum, anhydrite, barite. and carbonates in large-diameter...include a significant number in Texas (Smith 199I). including the Culberson mine of Pennzoil Sulfur Company...Company in Culberson County, Hoskins Mound near Freeport in Brazoria County. High Island salt dome in Galveston |
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| are differentiated: the gypsum anhydrite-cap and the calcite cap. The gypsum is derived from the anhydrite...gypsumanhydrite cap and probably of the upper part of the gypsum-anhydrite cap itself. The sulphur in cap rock is...which may be defined as the calcite cap and the gypsum-anhydrite cap. The calcite cap has generally gone...THE CHARACTER OE THE GYPSUM-ANHYDRtTE CAP An unusually complete core of gypsum-anhydrite cap was very...near the center ol the cap-rock area at Sulphur Mine, Louisiana. The core is said to have begun just |
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| in petroleum and natural gas, and anhydrite and gypsum--occur in great abundance in the United States...deposits, coal, industrial and refinery gases, and gypsum and anhydrite. The locations of the principal native...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and... H2S in sour natural gases in Wyoming and west Texas, recovery of H2S, SO2, and S from smelter and other...are included. Mineralogy of the salt, anhydrite, gypsum, and limestone parts of the domes are described |
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| 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 |
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| 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 hadāor currently hasānuĀ 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 |
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| i\ Till-. O l d , ! - COAST P)i; floitsloil. Texas. The more notable developments of geologic interest...Iberia, in Louisiana, and Dainoin Mound and Goose Creek, in Texas. Attention will be directed to these...of any typical dome materials such as cap-rock, gypsum, anhydrite, sulphur, etc. It may be that there...encountered in the outcrop of the Fayette sandstones of Texas and west Louisiana some 100 miles to the northwest...evidence of uplift is unmistakable. DAMON MOUND. Damon Mound during the year has been the scene of much |
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| Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036 ā¢ In I 969 and 1970...these cores and collecting mineral specimens of gypsum, sulfur, calcite, pyrite, and ceIestite which were...Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero! News The Lost Gem Tourmaline Mine: the Royal...Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont Co., Colorado Mark Jacobson 112 N. Lemans St. Lafayette...I wrote in Mineral News about the gem tourmaline mine of the Colorado miner, C. A Beghtol. This long lost |
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| SUBSURFACE STRATIGRAPHY OF T H E COASTAL PLAIN OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA ESTHER RICHARDS APPLIN, ALVA E. ELLISOR...ELLISOR, A\ T i) HEDWIG T. KNIKER Houston, Texas ABSTRACT Careful study of micro-organisms which are abundant...abundant in many well samples from the Texas Gulf Coast has yielded information of importance concerning...are recognized in many wells. The Oligocene of Texas is represented in surface exposures only by unfossilifcrous...sections revealed by well borings. The Jackson of Texas has been divided into three faunal zones. The Upper |
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| T H E HUMBLE (TEXAS) O I L FIELD By ALEXANDER DEUSSEN, Houston. Texas (Tulsa meeting, February. 1911...dome fields in the Texas-Louisiana Coastal Plain. It is located in Harris County, Texas, about 18 miles...the town of Humble on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. History. Following the discovery of the...The Humble field, like the other fields of the Texas-Louisiana Coastal Plain, lies in that belt of country...horizon. It is usually the rule that a mass of gypsum occurs between the limestone and the salt. Sulphur |
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| 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 |
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| CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR OIL FIELDS OF THE TEXAS-LOUISIANA GULF COASTAL PLAIN BY M. WASHINGTON................................... 26 28 28 29 Gypsum..................................................limestone...................................... Gypsum............................................................................... Sulphur, pyrite, gypsum, and salt ..............................................................I.:... Structure of the mound........................................ '. .... |
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| the Salt Domes of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas is a large one, and without previous preparation... As far back as 1892, we investigated the West Texas sulphur deposits and concluded at that time that...Many prominent geologists have visited the Sulphur Mine in Louisiana and all have evinced great interest...the front place and since that time the Louisiana mine could easily have produced the entire world's consumption...than 2,000,000 tons. At this time the Louisiana mine was producing at the rate of 1,400,000 tons per |
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| stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series |
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| nel oles Engineer Houston, Texas Gur PusLisHinc CoMPANY Houston, TEXAS SALT DOMES Gulf RegionāUnited...Copyright Ā© 1967 by Gulf Publishing Company Houston, Texas Printed in the United States of America. This book...steadily. This forces new exploration.ā The italics are mine. Salt Domes is divided into nine chapters plus...structures are located in the Gulf Statesāchiefly in Texas and Louisiana āand in the states of Veracruz and...data sheets are also provided for the eleven Texas and Louisiana Domes which have been chosen |
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| resulting in real production. The Electra pool in Texas is, howĆ©ver, mentioned by Johnson and Huntley as...hite, G. P. G rim sley, and Roy V. H e n n e n : County re p o rts an d m aps of P leasants, Wood, an d...does at least one field in Oklahoma and several in Texas. Subclass 1 1 (b )ā Where well defined alternating...fields in the Coastal Plain of LouisiĀ ana and Texas, but it has certain similarities in structure with...illustrate it. Examples are also frequent in the North Texas fields, and unfortunately have been confused with |
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| ....................................... Sulphur Mine................................................... PLATE I. Sketch map of Louisiana and eastern Texas, showing main structural features, especially the...terrace on north bank of Caddo Lake, just west of Texas-Louisiana state line..............................118 XII. Geologic map of portions of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, surrounding the Caddo oil field....overlying Brownstown marl at White Cliff, Howard County, Ark.......................................... |
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| Ā„ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateurās 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 |
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| d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 ā¢ 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...as big, or bigger. One location is in Campbell County, Virginia where huge ones up to about a foot long |
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| Absolute ate, dates Carbo11 /4 Continental shelf. Texas, sediments: t:mer), K. 0. 10996 FloridaĀ· 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 |
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| 100 0 7 6 ā100 O2 7.7 ā157 ā200 MHCOā 3 Total mine mg/l ralization, g/l 1.6 400 330 1.2 200 1.8 +87...where the deposits are closely associated with the gypsum and anhydritebearing sedimentary sequences (Yush...Paleogene section exposed here, the BukharaāSuzam gypsumbearing sequences, which are widespread in the...Figure 8a demonstrates that the upper part of the gypsumā anhydrite section is replaced by native sulfur...mineralized and oxygenbearing carbonate waters. The gypsum replacement was likely stimulated by the microbial |
