 | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Elemental Sulfur in Eddy County, New Mexico Elemental Sulfur in Eddy County, New Mexico By Jim S. Hinds...occurrences reported from wells and outcrops in Eddy County, N.Mex., with observations on their geologic setting...- - - - - - - - - - History of activity in Eddy County ____________________________ - General geology...Page FIGURE 1. Index map showing location of Eddy County and major tectonic features that affected Permian...approximate position of the edge of the Castile halite _ ____ ___ ___________ ___ ___ __ _ __ ____ ___ |  | | Report (issue) | | the region. Evaporites include anhydrite, gypsum, halite and related minerals. They are included in the...continuing study of the Los Medanos area, eastern Eddy County, New Mexico, to determine the feasibility of storing...area from lat 32°45' southward to the New Mexico-Texas State line. Detailed maps of some karst features...feature in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas whose perimeter is marked by the Capitan reef (fig...soluble rocks of Permian age such as gypsum and halite. At places where these rocks have been partially |  | | Report (issue) | | Occurrence in the Castile Formation, Southwest Texas By Beth M. Madsen 1 and Omer B. Raup 1 Open-File...Sec. 14, Public School Lands Block 110, Culberson County, Texas. Dashed line is the western boundary of...Occurrence in the Castile Formation, Southwest Texas by Beth M. Madsen and Omer B. Raup ABSTRACT The...Formation of the Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas, has been known for many years. Petrographic and...of sulfur in the Castile Formation of southwest Texas has been known since the late 1800s. This paper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | domes and in bedded Permian evaporites of West Texas, however, are clearly bioepigenetic.Anhydrite,...in the Gulf of Mexico. Beddedevaporitesof West Texas in associationwith petroleumshow an obviousepigeneticdisplacement...group establishedthat the søSand 84Sisotopic West Texas. The sulfur in such depositsis mined ratios in the...sulfurdepositsin Permian esof the Delawarebasin,West Texas (Fig. the Gulf Coastdeposits concluded that anhydriteor...and the beddedevaporitesof the Gypsum Plain, West Texas. requisite,as shownby the commonpresenceof petro- |  | | 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 (volume) | | Surface Geology of the Nash Draw Quadrangle Eddy County New Mexico By JAMES D. VINE CONTRIBUTIONS GEOLOGICAL...pocket Southestern New Mexico and adjacent part of Texas showing location of Nash Draw quadrangle---_-_--_----_-__---_B3...SURFACE GEOLOGY OF THE NASH DRAW QUADRANGLE, EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO By JAMES D. VINE ABSTRACT Outcropping...located in southeastern New Mexico in eastern Eddy County (fig. 1). The city of Carlsbad lies about FIGDRE...1. Southeastern New Mexico and adjacent part of Texas showing location of the Nash Draw quadrangle (heavy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | welcomed): Poland and Russia, and the Permian Basin in Texas. I. Biogenicdeposits Bioepigeneticsulfur is developedin...sulfur depositsand to the Cis-Carpathiandepositsof USA Poland USSR Mexico Iraq China South America Italy...discussion and will not be T 10 N., R. 19 W., Washita County) (Kincheloe and Scott, 1974; Rowland, 1974). This...distinction criticalto sulfurexplorationefforts.The halite from rock salt by artesiangroundwaters. oxidativedepositsin...andalteration and throughoutthe Permian Basinof West Texas of gypsum (Ca'2 plus CO2) to secondarycalcite is |  | | Report (issue) | | and rocks of the tri-state border region— West Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua Kenneth...Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals...approximately two million people in the cities of El Paso, Texas; Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Chihuahua; and nearby...Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also been...produced from magmatic-hydrothermal deposits in west Texas in previous years. Scoria continues to be produced |  | | Report (volume) | | Buckner Formation 40 Ferry Lake Anhydrite 42 Central Texas region-Edwards Limestone and McKnight Formation...Caddo Parish, northwestern Louisiana, and Miller County, southwestern Arkansas 43 Map of the Permian basin...anhydrite 45 Paleogeographic maps of southwestern Texas and southeastern New Mexico during early and middle...Delaware basin and surrounding region of southwestern Texas and southeastern New Mexico 53 Diagrammatic east-west...Castile and Salado Formations from Culberson County, Tex., to Winkler County, Tex. 54 Map showing thickness |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | inclusion assemblages showing slightly higher 95 halite dissolution temperatures than bubble disappearance...based on the 102 melting temperature of ice or halite using the equations given in Bodnar and Vityk ...Excimer laser 106 (GeolasPro system; Coherent; USA) attached to a quadrupole mass spectrometer 107...successful attempt at the 274 Apex Mine in Utah, USA (Dutrizac et al., 1986), they have not been exploited...molybdenum in the porphyry-Mo(-Nb) deposit at Cave Peak, Texas. J. Petrol., 51, 1739-1760. Audétat, A., Günther |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible...O. Box 2008, MS 6110, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6110, USA (Received March 3, 2004; accepted in revised form...from the Upper Permian San Andres Formation of Texas (274 –272 Ma) and Salado Formation of New Mexico...Calcite Aragonite Dolomite Magnesite Gypsum Anhydrite Halite Glauberite Polyhalite Kieserite Sylvite Carnallite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02 138, USA (Received July 2, 1990; accepted in revisedform November...marine halite from the Ochoan Salado Formation in the Delaware Basin and fifteen inclusions in halite from...pioneering work of HOLSER ( 1963) on brine inclusions in halite, LAZAR and HOLLAND( 1988 ) developed a technique...determining the composition of brine inclusions in halite. Their analytical technique has now been applied...applied to fluid inclusions in a number of marine halite de- INTRODUCIION THE COMPOSITIONOF SEAWATERhas been |  | | Report (issue) | | caves in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas by Carol A. Hill Albuquerque, New Mexico SOCORRO...UNM CAROL A. HILL, Albuquerque ALONZO D. JACKA, Texas Tech BOB JULYAN, Albuquerque SHARI A. KELLEY, SMU...carbon-isotope data and uranium-series ages for Texas Toothpick stalagmite, Lower Cave, Carlsbad Cavern...Delaware Basin 77 86—Progressive dissolution of halite beds from west to east in Delaware Basin and its...CO2, and the "castile" limestone masses. Where halite beds in the Castile Formation remained intact, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sedimentology of evaporites (gypsum, anhydrite, halite). A major rejuvenation of thought developed with...masses in Permian shelf sedimentary rocks of west Texas; some of these resemble nodular gypsum rosettes...Phillips-1 wells of the Castile Formation, Culberson County, Texas (see Anderson and others, 1972, for well...from depths of 115 to 340 m. Castile Formation of Texas and New Mexico (Udden, 1924; Adams, 1944; King,... Chicken-wire nodular anhydrite, Permian, west Texas; Magnolia-Shook no. 1, 2,300 m (7,570 ft); bar = |  | | Report (issue) | | Intrusive and extrusive alkaline rocks of the Lincoln County porphyry belt by Theodore J. Armbrustmacher 4...Buckles and northeast-trending faults Roosevelt County fault Alamosa Creek fault Karst................................... Pre-Permian rocks of Lincoln County....................... Pre-Permian rocks of the......................................... Lincoln County porphyry belt................................ Igneous...Stratigraphic occurrence Roswell Resource Area deposits Halite............................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | extremely rapid deposition of evaporites (anhydrite, halite, sylvite, and more exotic salts). These evaporites...been completed on the "Permian reef complex" of Texas and New Mexico which have established an excellent...climatically and paleogeographically, the Permian of west Texas and New Mexico was much more like the arid, continentinterior...and Ochoan units are shown in Table 3 (listed by county). Production totals for each producing stratigraphic...Haigh, 1958; West Texas Geological Society, 1960 and 1969; Hobbs, Roswell, and West Texas Geological Societies |  | | Report (volume) | | of the booming White Oaks gold district, Lincoln County, N. Mex. Gold was probably the first metallic commodity...commodity to be commercially mined in the Lincoln County porphyry belt and has the highest production value...Intrusive and Extrusive Alkaline Rocks of the Lincoln County Porphyry Belt, by Theodore J. Armbrustmacher ..................................... .. Roosevelt County Fault. ............................................... . Pre-Permian Paleozoic Rocks of Lincoln County ................................. . Pre-Permian |  | | Report (volume) | | Smith, R. H., 1930, Hendrick field, Winkler County, Texas: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 14...923946. Hendrick oil field in central Winkler County, Tex. is 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. It contains...Upper Permian Ochoa series of Delaware b sin, west Texas and southeastern New Mexico: Am. Assoc. Petroleum...evaporites that crop out in the Delaware basin in west Texas and southeast New Mexico. The series is divided...dolomite, gypsum, and anhydrite. Exposures in Eddy County, N. Mex., show 4 beds of gypsum which range from |  | | Report (issue) | | Suite 1010, Fort Worth, Texas 76102; 192 Stonewall Jackson, Conroe, Texas 77302 2 Abstract—American... 1 Bueyeros well (sec. 32, T31N, R31E, Harding County, New Mexico) in 1916. The Tubb Sandstone (Permian...crestal portion in Hartley and Oldham Counties, Texas. The significant interpretational difference made...southwestern Hartley County and the Bravo subdivision in northwestern Oldham County, Texas. Although then (1970)...complex and largely in New Mexico rather than in Texas, the name Bravo Dome was retained. The possibility |  | | Report (issue) | | Fisher, Director The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78713 The Bureau of Economic Geology...in 1909 as the successor to the Texas Geological Survey and the Texas Mineral Survey, is a research entity...entity of The University of Texas at Austin. It also functions as the State Geological Survey, a quasi-State...quasi-State agency, and the Bureau Director represents Texas in the Association of American State Geologists...services relating to the resources and geology of Texas are provided by the Bureau. In addition, the Bureau |  | | Report (issue) | | Development Abstract The bromine content of halite and sylvite in the Salado Formation was investigated...district, southeast New Mexico. The bromine content of halite ranges from 25 to 105 parts per million (0.0025...second cycle. Changes in the bromine content of halite across stratigraphic boundaries correlate with...of the halite has not changed substantially since deposition. The bromine contents of halite and sylvite...district, suggest that the initial precipitation of a halite-sylvite assemblage was succeeded by the precipitation |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1201-A A study of halite, anhydrite, and carbonate rocks in a part of the...Salt Member.__________________________________ Halite rock___________________________________________..._____--_--___________-_-_______-_-_--__-_---__ Halite and anhydrite veins_____-_______-____--__----_-__...carbonate______________________---__------Poly halite. _____________________________________________...Wellington Formation, Hutchinson Naval Air Station, Reno County, Kansas. In pocket FIGURE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6-17. |  | Ziegenbalg, S.B., Birgel, D., Hoffmann-Sell, L., Pierre, C., Rouchy, J.M., Peckmann, J. (2012) Anaerobic oxidation of methane in hypersaline Messinian environments revealed by 13C-depleted molecular fossils. Chemical Geology, 292. 140-148 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.024 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1998; Gasiewicz, 2000), the Limestone Buttes in Texas (−39‰; Kirkland and Evans, 1976), and the ‘Calcare...series, including evaporitic carbonate, sulphate, halite, and bittern salts between 5.96 and 5.33 million...pseudomorphs after lenticular gypsum, and moulds of halite crystals. The strongly neg13 ative δ C values of...Cretaceous seeps in the Western Interior seaway, USA. Geomicrobiology Journal 23, 565–577. Birgel, D....Origin of limestone buttes, Gypsum Plain, Culberson County, Texas. American Association of Petroleum Geologists |  | | Report (issue) | | mountain ranges referred to in text 3. Map of western Texas and eastern New Mexico and adjacent areas showing...Chemical analyses of brines from four wells, Eddy County, N. Mex Page I 51 I 55 I 57 GEOLOGY OF THE GUADALUPE...Winkler County, Tex., in 1920, petroleum exploration intensified in adjacent parts of western Texas and ...the Permian rocks of the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas and New Mexico. Before 1930 some of the com plexities...examined the part of the mountains that lie in Texas. Fossils collected by Shumard were recognized by |
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