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Lithology, microstructures, fluid inclusions, and geochemistry of rock salt and of the cap-rock contact in Oakwood Dome, east Texas:  significance for nuclear waste storage Lithology, microstructures, fluid inclusions, and geochemistry of rock salt and of the cap-rock contact in Oakwood Dome, east Texas: significance for nuclear waste storage 1982

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.

Dix, O.R., Jackson, M.P.A. Report of Investigations Bureau of Economic Geology
Origin and diagenesis of cap rock, Gyp Hill and Oakwood salt domes, Texas Origin and diagenesis of cap rock, Gyp Hill and Oakwood salt domes, Texas 1983

Petrographic and geochemical studies of caprock core from two salt domes, Gyp Hill in South Texas and Oakwood in East Texas, reveal the significantly different diagenetic histories of each dome. Cap rock on Gyp Hill is now forming within a shallow meteoric aquifer.

Kreitler, C.W., Dutton, S.P. Report of Investigations Bureau of Economic Geology