Esperson Salt Dome, Dayton, Liberty Co., Texas, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 29° 58' North , 94° 57' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 29.96691,-94.95023 |
Köppen climate type: | Cfa : Humid subtropical climate |
A salt deposit located 10.8 km (6.7 miles) SW of Dayton, on private land. Discovered in 1928 by the Union Exploration Company. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Discovered by torsion balence survey. No surface expression of the dome. Oil, condensate and gas production from 1929 to present.
Mineralization is a salt dome deposit (Mineral occurrence model information: Model code: 252; USGS model code: 35a.4 (35ad); Deposit model name: Salt domes: diapiric salt structures), hosted in the Late Jurassic Louann Salt. The ore body is a diapir with a depth-to-top of 1,880.62 meters. No caprock. Local rocks include rocks of the Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly sand.
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1 valid mineral.
Regional Geology
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Pleistocene 0.0117 - 2.588 Ma ID: 2891687 | Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly sand Age: Pleistocene (0.0117 - 2.588 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Beaumont Formation Comments: (from Moore and Wermund, 1993a, 1993b) Yellowish- to brownish-gray, locally reddish orange, v. fine to fine quartz sand, silt, and minor fine gravel, intermixed and interbedded. Includes stream channel, point-bar, cravasse-splay, and natural levee ridge deposits, and clayey fill in abandoned channels. Forms poorly defined meander-belt ridges and pimple mounds aligned approx. normal to coast and 1-2 m higher than surround interdistributary silt and clay. Channel fill is dk-brn to brnish-dark-gray, laminated clay and silt, organic -rich. Includes marine delta-front sand, lagoonal clay, and near-shore marine sand beneath and landward of bays along the coast. Interfingers with the interdistributary facies of Beuamont Fm. and rests disconformably on Lissie Fm. Thickness 3-10 m on outcrop; thickens in southeastward in subsurface to more than 100 m. Lithology: Major:{sand}, Minor:{fine alluvium} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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