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Halite from
West Virginia, USA


Locality type:State
Classification
Species:Halite
Formula:NaCl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:952418
Long-form Identifier:1:3:952418:7
GUID (UUID V4):a6859551-63c8-4943-a9a1-2b9dfd075af2
Localities for Halite in this Region
Braxton County, West Virginia, USA
Clay County, West Virginia, USA
Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Mason County, West Virginia, USA
Mercer County, West Virginia, USA
Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
Wood County, West Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
the Valley and Ridge Province, Hardy County, West Virginia By Robert T. Ryder, Robert D. Crangle, Jr.,...Acting Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2009 For more information on the USGS—the Federal...the Valley and Ridge province, Hardy County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations...52 Figures [On map sheets] 1. Map of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and adjoining States showing...rocks along cross section D–D’ in Ohio and West Virginia 3. Figure showing the Broad Top and Plateau
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey, 956 National Center, Reston, VA, USA e-mail: engle@usgs.gov M.A. Engle Department of Geological...University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, TX, USA 88 Math Geosci (2013) 45:87–101...Carpenter 1978). Bromide is virtually excluded from the halite lattice (Zherebtsova and Volkova 1966; McCaffrey...thus seawater (or paleoseawater) evaporation past halite saturation will result in a brine enriched in Br...than occur in seawater. Conversely, dissolution of halite by fresh water or seawater will produce brine that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright 6 1996 Elsevier ScienceLtd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/96 $15.00 + .oO Pergamon...Reservation, genesis, and environmental Tennessee, USA: implications RONIT NATIV Soil and Water Department...datais modificationof residualbrine from which halite hasbeenprecipitated. Potential sourcesfor this...amount of data from deep oil wells northeast and west of the reservation (not shown on Fig. 1). The chemical...and northern West Virginia. Mississippian-age rock salt is found in southwestern Virginia. In addition
Report (issue)
Valley and Ridge Province, Pendleton County, West Virginia By Robert T. Ryder, Christopher S. Swezey, Robert...Myers, Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2008 For product and ordering information: World...Valley and Ridge province, Pendleton County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations...Figures [On map sheet 1] 1. 2. Map of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and adjoining States showing...Paleozoic rocks along section E–E’ in Ohio and West Virginia iv Table [On map sheet 1] 1. Drill holes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precipitation of soluble sea-salts (mostly gypsum and halite), and this process controlled the recent geomorphological...evidence for salt weathering, including gypsum/halite infillings ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT in cracks of the... KEYWORDS: coastal caves, evaporites, gypsum, halite, salt weathering, gypsum speleothems, stable isotopes...the precipitation of soluble salts (i.e. ‘gypsum/halite wedging’; ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT White and White...more recently discovered El Orón Cave in the north-west (Puch, 1998). El Arco Cave NU is also known as
Report (issue)
Basin of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia By Robert T. Ryder, Christopher S. Swezey, Michael...basin of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, chap. G.11 of Ruppert, L.F., and Ryder, R.T...Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia Correlation chart of Middle Ordovician through...Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia showing intervals sampled for total organic...from the samples; and the extent of Salina Group halite deposits Tables [Tables 1–2 as separate files;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
observed in Marcellus gas wells in Pennsylvania, USA and the possible reason is suggested to be that the...brine evaporated from seawater into the stage of halite precipitation, and then diluted and mixed with...carbon. Though mineral analysis indicates that no halite is contained in the shale samples, one possible...concentration increases of Na + and Cl- is suggested to be halite dissolution in the marine formations. 3.3. Implication...shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109(30), 11961– 11966. 6. Jackson RE, Gorody
Report (issue)
ROME TROUGH AND ALLEGHENY PLATEAU OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA, WESTERN MARYLAND, AND SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...Appalachian basin (see index map below). The northern West Virginia, west­ ern Maryland, and southwestern Pennsylvania...deep structure of the Rome trough in northern West Virginia, western Maryland, and southwestern Pennsylvania...Rome trough and Allegheny Plateau of northern West Virginia, western Maryland, and southwestern Pennsylvania...crosses section C–C’ in Monongalia County, West Virginia. The black seams that occur between the components
Report (issue)
Wards. Galena, 111. Hal ides Halite NaCl. 16.7 11.6 xl 2.163 Halite............... 13.8 xl 30...30 Clark (1966, p. 465) from Lees (1892). Halite............... 13.9 xl 29 Clark (1966, p. 465) from...from Herrin and Clark (1956). Halite............... 10.0 xl Halite............... 13.6 xl 19 Clark...). Halite............... 8.8 7.6 xl 30 75 Clark (1966, p. 465) from Bridgman (1924). Halite.......10.1 7.5 6.0 5.0 Halite............... 0 100 200 300 400 xl 35 70 13.0 Halite (artificial). (21
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300, USA Department of Geology...Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...also dissolves some evaporite minerals, such as halite, bassanite, and, to a lesser extent, gypsum. Flooding...on the amount of halite which was dissolved during the flooding event; abundant halite prior to flooding...high salinity in flood waters as halite dissolves, yet little halite prior to flooding results in dilute
Report (issue)
Middle and early Late Pennsylvania strata, 1-68, west flank of Chestnut Ridge, WV. Stop 13 Late Pennsylvania...Kentucky Geological Survey, and Nick Fedorko, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. This trip originates...Paleozoic sedimentation and stratigraphy along an east-west transect across the Appalachian Basin from Washington's...Washington's Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia to Pittsburgh International Airport in western...of the Blue Ridge. The Blue Ridge of northern Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania consists of a large
Report (volume)
• SPOKANE, Washington--U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave .. • ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Rm. 101...Adirondack uplift- Precambrian 26 Saltviiie area (Virginia)-Maccrady Formation 27 Illinois basin-St. Louis...and southeastern New Mexico 53 Diagrammatic east-west cross section of Castile and Salado Formations from...of blanket dissolution breccia correlative with halite I in the Castile Formation 57 Contour map showing...anhydrite appears to have several advantages over halite for proposed nuclear-waste isolation. It has a
Report (issue)
FRONTISPIECE Artwork by Robert E. Judah A . - { ( Halite - Salty Mystery of Life By R. DEE RARICK DEPARTMENT...Hopper-shaped cube of halite 3 Crystal structure showing arrangement of atoms in halite 3 Boiling down brines...saltmakers 13 7 Guests drinking mineral water at the West Baden Springs Hotel 14 8 Magnified cube-shaped...Island, La. 19 Uses of salt 22-23 10 11 12 16 Halite - Salty Mystery of Life By R. DEE RARICK Introduction...not quickly corrected, the body will die. 1 2 HALITE- SALTY MYSTERY OF LIFE Civilization and Salt Primitive
Report (volume)
accounts. INTRODUCTION Common salt, the mineral halite, is of vital importance in the life of man-. It...Upper Permian Ochoa series of the Delaware Basin, West Texas and southeastern New Mexico: Am. Assoc. Petroleum...and future trends in salt production in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. 717 718 CONTRIBUTIONS...linear alinement with the salt grain, and in places halite crystals are elongated. Deformation has been by...parts of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio within the area served by the Baltimore
Book
A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 227 West 17 Street, New York, N. Y.10011 All rights reserved.... . . • . • • • . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • • West Texas - Eastern New Mexico . • . . . . . . . . ...vania ••.•.•..•••••••••.••••.••••.•••.....•.... West Virginia ••.•.•.•.•••.•••••••...•••.•.•...•....•. Supai.... • • • • • • • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . Virginia •••••.•.••.••••••••••••••••.•••.....•....... Western... 137 137 137 138 138 138 138 xi Contents THE WEST INDIES Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos Islands .....
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are not as smooth as bedded deposits of gypsum , halite and those of barite . Most crystals of CELESaragonite...dolomite, barite, gypsum, anhydrate, strontianite and halite. CELESTITE occurs in many areas of the United States...near Emery, Emery Co., Utah . In Mineral Co., West Virginia, several miles south of Cumberland, Md., blue...in brecciated zones of crystalline limestone at Virginia Lake, Ontario, Canada. Several mines near Moira...occur in the clay beneath Overhanging Rock on the west bank of the creek. CELESTITE is not only indigenous
Report (issue)
CHRISTOPHER G. McKim, X-ray Facility Manager VIRGINIA T. MCLEMORE, Senior Economic Geologist NORMA J...minerals and rocks of the tri-state border region— West Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua...University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state...production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also been produced...produced from magmatic-hydrothermal deposits in west Texas in previous years. Scoria continues to be
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Mining Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; dt0037@mix.wvu.edu * Correspondence:...coal preparation plant operating in Southern West Virginia. The sample was first subjected to hydrochloric...fluorescence (XRF) analyzer (Olympus, Waltham, MA, USA). Hitachi S-4700 scanning electron microscopy–energy...of 21 Version 4.02 (Micromeritics, Norcross, GA, USA) to identify the pore volume, pore size, and specific...(ICP-MS) (Nexion 2000, Perkin Elmer, Waltham, MA, USA) and inductively coupled plasma optical emission
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. 5 Department of Geological...silica (Benison et al., 2007; Story et al., 2010). Halite, gypsum (and other sulfates such as epsomite and...lakes as chemical sediments (Benison et al., 2007). Halite and gypsum also grow from acid saline groundwater...to the lakes, making displacive halite and gypsum, as well as halite and gypsum intergranular cements...sediments and contain hematite, jarosite, gypsum, halite, and kaolinite (Bowen et al., 2008). The siliciclastic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from 35 to 40 per cent., to the bestVirginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvaniasemibituminous coalswith a...run from 1.96 to 3.34; that is, the very best West Virginia coal yielded practically 3• times the amount...Florida peat yieldedmore power than the very best West Virginia coal under the steam boiler. The J•ormergave...330 in the producer, whereas the very best West Virginia coal yidded only .287 of an electrical horse-powerunder...KINGNON1 .625 , W. VA. I I lil . TE.iRiRE,HALITE.,i ND. .021 II LITTLE$', IND. CENTRAL 2.71 2
Report (issue)
and (or) green shale Cherty Limestone Dolomite Halite Bentonite bed Granite and (or) gneiss Figure 1...re-released in this volume, chap. E.4.1) in Ohio and West Virginia showing associated total petroleum systems as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the samples are off of my farm located IV2 miles west of Clarksville, Ark. Some of the samples are found...from the Manzanita Mercury Mine located one mile west of Wilbur Springs in S/W Colusa County in North...eastern Allamakee County of N / E Iowa, is on the west bank of the Mississippi River. MAINE — The following..."Tourmaline in talc. Hitchcock talc mine, Vi mile west of Murphy (Cherokee Co.), N . C." — on label . Murphy...and can offer them to dealers in wholesale lots." Halite is the mineralogical name for common rock salt
Report (issue)
shale Gray and (or) green shale Limestone Dolomite Halite Bentonite bed Granite and (or) gneiss Figure 2...re-released in this volume, chap. E.4.2) in Ohio and West Virginia showing associated total petroleum systems as
Book (volume)
sea level extending NE to SW through southern West Virginia, into northern Alabama; it is relatively rich...coal seams. The plateau escarpment drops off on the west in sharp breaks, exposing even older Mississippian...yet well prospected, all along the mts. NE to Virginia. West and north of the mts., extending for 135 air...Farther west lie the long narrow valley of the Tennessee R., the West Tennessee Uplands and the West Tennessee...the United States The Texas panhandle and all of west Texas is high arid land rising westward by sweeping
Report (issue)
APPALACHIAN (New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) Basin or sal t body (State) Silurian Geologic...Economic resources of the Ohio River Valley in test Virginia, Pt. 2, p. 38-42, of Geology and economic resources...resources of the Ohio River Valley in test Virginia: test Virginia Geological Survey, v. 22, 129 p., includes...H. C. 1943, Rock salt deposits of test Virginia: test Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin 7, 67 p. Price...and Molting, J. P., 1949, Salt resources of test Virginia: American Institute of Mining and ;-fetallurgical
 
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