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Publication Year
1982
Series
Report of Investigations
Abstract

Oakwood salt dome in Leon and Freestone Counties, Texas, has a core composed of a diapiric salt stock at a depth of 355 m. A vertical borehole in the center of the salt stock yielded 57.3 m of continuous rock-salt core overlain by 137 m of anhydrite-calcite cap rock.

Publication Year
1982
Series
Report of Investigations
Abstract

Regional studies of the lower Eocene Wilcox Group in Texas were conducted to assess the potential for producing heat energy and solution methane from geopressured fluids in the deep-subsurface growth-faulted zone. However, in addition to assembling the necessary data for the geopressured geothermal project, funded by the U.S.

Publication Year
1982
Series
Report of Investigations
Abstract

San Andres oil constitutes more than 80 percent of the total production from the Northern Shelf of the Midland Basin, Texas. The San Andres and Clear Fork carbonate rocks of the Northern Shelf contain sufficient amounts of lipid-rich organic material to rank them as potential petroleum source beds.