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Anhydrite from
Piedras Pintas, Duval County, Texas, USA


Classification
Species:Anhydrite
Formula:CaSO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anhydrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Piedras Pintas, Duval County, Texas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:198658
Long-form Identifier:1:3:198658:7
GUID (UUID V4):e72d418d-622f-41d5-b7be-b16e8bf79613
Nearest other occurrences of Anhydrite
14.4km (9.0 miles) ā“˜Palangana salt dome, Benavides, Duval County, Texas, USA
14.4km (9.0 miles) ā“˜Palangana Mine, Palangana salt dome, Benavides, Duval County, Texas, USA
54.2km (33.7 miles) ā“˜Gyp Hill Quarry, Gyp Hill Dome (Falfurrias Dome; Loma Blanca), Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PALANGANA SALT DOME, DUVAL COUNTY, TEXAS) DosAnn C. BAtā€¢'ros. INTRODUCTION. Palanganais one...throughits proximityto the old shallowfield on the Piedras Pintas Salt dome. The Sinclair Oil and Re- fining...in southernTexas, in the east centralpart of Duval County. (See Fig. 58.) It is aboutI IO milesduesouth...which it is 6 miles north. Both pointsare on the Texas Mexican Railroad. Palangana is four miles north-northwestof...north-northwestof the old shallow oil field of the Piedras Pintas salt dome. PHYSIOGRAPHY. Palanganalies in
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...just above the sulfur zone. At Hoskins Mound dome, Texas it makes up to 50 percent of the composition of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundance studies were carried out on core samples from Texas and Louisiana sulphur wells. In these wells native...limestone which usually lies between a layer of anhydrite and gypsum, all of which form the cap rock of... Fig. 2 illustrates a typical salt dome. The anhydrite cap is of normal marine crystallization and is...have been formed by direct alteration of the anhydrite by the action of carbonate waters and water respectively...associated rock. 297 The Hoskins mound salt dome in Texas is roughly circular and approsimatel) acres in extent
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 hadā€”or currently hasā€”nuĀ­ 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)
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
Report (issue)
Professional Paper 126 GEOLOGY OF THE COASTAL PLAIN OF TEXAS WEST OF BRAZOS RIVER BY ALEXANDER DEUSSEN WASHINGTON... . . . . . . . 37 Section at Maxwell, Caldwell County.................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 41 Section near Elgin, Bastrop County .................... , ................ : . . ...Sections on Leon Creek and Medina River, Bexar County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................... 47 Section at Rockdale, Milam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
________________ _________________________________ West Texas-southeast New Mexico area._____________________...basin west of Guadalupe Mountains.________________ Texas Panhandle area_____________________________ Oklahoma...of salt. in Permian basin of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. 6. Map of Paradox basin area showing...Arkansas, northern Louisiana, and northeastern Texas, but are believed to pinch out downdip. The beds...below the surface. A caprock, composed mostly of anhydrite, gypsum, and limestone, often occurs on top of
Book
Comanche Peck Wolnut Poluxy Upper (Ferry Loke Anhydrite) wane |Rodessa Lower \Pearsoif domes (Cow Creek)...nel oles Engineer Houston, Texas Gur PusLisHinc CoMPANY Houston, TEXAS SALT DOMES Gulf Regionā€”United...Copyright Ā© 1967 by Gulf Publishing Company Houston, Texas Printed in the United States of America. This book...structures are located in the Gulf Statesā€”chiefly in Texas and Louisiana ā€”and in the states of Veracruz and...data sheets are also provided for the eleven Texas and Louisiana Domes which have been chosen
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
Report (issue)
hydrogen sulfide in petroleum and natural gas, and anhydrite and gypsum--occur in great abundance in the United...industrial and refinery gases, and gypsum and anhydrite. The locations of the principal native sulfur... H2S in sour natural gases in Wyoming and west Texas, recovery of H2S, SO2, and S from smelter and other...byproduct sulfur'(exclusive of native sulfur and anhydrite), arid estimates that about 3,000,000 additional...fragments of fine-grained anhydrite. Calcite and sulfur were probably formed from anhydrite through reduction
Report (volume)
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.............................................features in the Upper Cretaceous formations in eastern Texas and Louisiana............... 27 2. North-south section
Journal (volume)
Tennessee. By K ENDALL E. HoR::-; . . . . . . . . . . Texas: East and East Central. Hy D. V. CARTER and l)....\Yell Spacing, Sinclair-l\Ioren Pool, Young County, Texas. By l\f. G. CHENEY. A.I.::\l.E. Tech. Pub. 1253...1940, Mr. T. V. 1'Ioore, the ne,Yly organized East Texas Section bas p roved to be an outstanding one, and...Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Texas. Pa:, I Chairmen RALPH ARNOLD, 1922-...I-IEROY, President, Pilgrim Exp1oration Co., Houston, Texas. D.R. KNOWLTON, Production Manager, .Phillips Petroleu1n
Report (issue)
California and Nevada __ ----- ______________ _ Texas Coastal Plain ________________________ _ Eastern...in 1874 at Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Carbon County, Pa. ('Genth, 1875, p. 144B). In 1898 a deposit...vanadiferous sandstone was found at Roc Creek, Montrose County, Colo. This deposit was soon exploited for the...as well, especially Wyoming, South Dakota, and Texas. From 1948 to 1961 about 35 million tons of ore...Uranium minerals Sources of data ARIZONA Apache County Jerome Chee prospect_ __________ Morrison 1_____
Journal (volume)
Phillips, William- Copper B. Coal Mining in Texas. T. T. Professor of Mining and Metallurgy, Pei-Yang...Quicksilver in Mexico. Sulphur Deposits of Louisiana and Texas, Geology of. Sulphur in Mexico. Vanadium in Mexico...Vermillion Tennessee. George H. Ashley, Nashville Texas.*.... W. B. Phillips. Austin Vermont. G. H. Perkins...of Buery Brothers Coal and Coke Company, Fayette county, W. Va., killed four men.ā€”Utah Fuel Company fined...Mines and Smelters Corporation property in Beaver county Utah in accordance with the plan of reorganization
Book
graduates in geology, who was sent to Colombia by the Texas Company in 1930. On his return, he added to my list...Ordovician of western Sonora Ordovician of El Paso, Texas Devonian of Sonora Mississippian and Permian ae...Conditions of deposition . Jurassic of Malone, Texas Zones of the Upper Jurassic . Faunal relations...mable af Gromeseual sal Cenozoic fermen in East Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama....ihe Gulf i Men acrossthe Coastal Plain of eastern Texas during the Cenozoic. After Plummer . 51. Physiographic
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eee eee See Table40:ā€” Value of petroleum sold. in Texas, by fields: 1902 and 190L_--. 2-2 2.222255. .2 bee...---+--Analysis of petroleum produced in Fresno County, California: 1902 ........-.-----------------------+-------4-The...ate lt ā€”limonite banks near @ecumseh; Cherokee county, Alabama _.....--.---+:22+-lecc-cee esce cess ece...Middle Hill, Cornwall ore banks, Cornwall, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania ................--------- Plate...ā€”Sunrise pit from the east, at Sunrise, Laramie county, Wyoming ............--.-..----.-.---2--2-22-2eee
 
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