 | | 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) | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 ...................... ............................................ Halite .................................................Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47 |  | | Report (chapter) | | underground fuel storage (UFS) facilities; the majority at USA SPR facilities. Since UGS was first undertaken in...trap and retain hydrocarbons) and salt caverns (halite is impermeable and viscoplastic, such that faults...incidents seen at UFS facilities, most notably in the USA, where fatalities have occurred (Fig. 3). The Preesall...facilities are operational worldwide (Fig. 4). The USA operates the greatest number of UGS facilities, with... 1998; Thoms & Gehle 2000). Some caverns in the USA and Russia have been used for the underground testing |  | | Book | | evaporite salts. 22 Gypsum beds.□ 23 Halite beds (chevrons and crusts).26 Halite cumulates, rafts and coated grains...Lenticular mudcracks.42 Haloturbated and chaotic halite.43 Shallow mineralogic re-equilibration.43 Porosity...loss. 44 Deeper burial - mosaic halite?.45 Limpid dolomite in mosaic halite.46 Burial of sulphate evaporites...Evaporites as uplift indicators.51 Fibrous gypsum and halite (satinspar).52 Saline clay authigenesis 54 Textural...Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South America.187 Ephemeral stream |  | | 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) | | sandstone or shale. The bulk of the material is halite (NaCl). Bedded salt deposits can have thicknesses...left behind, so that the dome becomes enriched in halite. Some salt domes outcrop on the surface; others...brittle. Some salt domes consist of almost pure halite. Most, however, contain varying amounts of anhydrite...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 |  | | 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . |  | | 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 |  | 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...enterprises such as Ray Consolidated Copper Co., Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., and Cyprus Mining Corp. Colonel...Bratney Chevron Energy Technology Company Houston, Texas Unimin Corporation Ottawa, Illinois Victor O....Anderson, South Carolina James M. Barker Dennis P. Bryan New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources...Washington, D.C. Solvay Chemicals, Inc. Houston, Texas Fred G. Heivilin Salt Institute Alexandria, Virginia |  | | Report (issue) | | Tennessee___________________________________________ 88 Texas -----------------------------------------------...distinguished in the listing as follows: HAL for halite (sodium chloride); and MBL for mirabilite and other...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...COVE POTASH SPRINGS MENA DISTRICT DIERKS AREA PIKE COUNTY MURFREESBORO KIMBERLITE BATESVJLLE DISTRICT PINK |  | | 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...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...exploration geologists. Includes a bibliography. West Texas and South-eastern New Mexico (the Permian Li, Guoyu |  | | Journal (volume) | | 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:...at Gulf ports, La. and Tex., It., eff. Mar. 6, Freeport eff. Mar. 1 on spot, June 1 on contract. bright... $42 dark.... $41 Regional terminal prices of Freeport have been removed. Contracts have been renegotiated...Green River Formation also host large reserves of halite, analcite (a zeolite-sodium aluminum silicate) |
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