Geology and Geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle...(1981)

Gustavson, Thomas C.; Bassett, R. L.; Budnik, Roy T.; Finley, Robert J.; Goldstein, Arthur G.; McGowen, J. H.; Roedder, Edwin; Ruppel, Stephen C.; Baumgardner, Robert W.; Bentley, Mark E.; Dutton, Shirley P.; Fogg, Graham E.; Hovorka, Susan; McGookey, Douglas A.; Ramondetta, Paul J.; Simpkins, William W.; Smith, Donald A.; Duncan, Edward; Griffin, Joe; Merritt, Randy M.; Naiman, Ellen R.

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“…Nearly half of this load was supplied by the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River, whose average load for the same period was 0.940 x lo6 MT dissolved solids including 0.385 x lo6 MT chloride and 0.142 x lo6 MT of sulphate. 1980a) and Swenson (1974) have provided estimated rates of salt dissolution for portions of the Rolling Plains. Using the annual solute discharge for a drainage basin, Swenson determined solution rztes in terms of thickness of salt dissolved per thousand years per drainage basin, For the drainage basin of Croton Creek, a small subbasin of the Salt Fork of the Brazos River, he found that the vertical dissolution rate was 0.015 cm an-' for the entire 655 km2 (253 m12) basin.…”

Section: Rates O F Salt Dissolution In the Vicinity O F Hall And Brismentioning

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Evaporite dissolution and development of karst features on the rolling plains of the texas panhandle

Gustavson

Smpkins

Alhades

et al. 1982

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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More than 400 dolines, consisting of collapse sinkholes and closed depressions, occur in Hall and Briscoe Counties, Texas. Of these, at least 36 sinkholes and two depressions formed between 1940 and 1972. Collapse sinks are typically circular and range up to 100 m in diameter and 15 m in depth. Closed depressions are irregularly-shaped, internally-drained depressions up to 2.4 km in length. Surface fractures up to 1.5 km in length are associated with certain closed depressions.Karst features are forming as a result of intrastratal dissolution of Upper Permian evaporites, primarily halite and secondariIy gypsum. Salt dissolution and overburden collapse are evident from geophysical log cross-sections and occur at depths ranging from 195 to 275 m. Dissolution is progressing down dip and mean dissolution rates for salt beds in the Hall County area range from 0.29 to 7.73 cm/yr.The valley of the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River is an area of ground-water discharge for flow systems moving eastward from topographically high areas of the Rolling Plains and from the eastern rim of the High Plains. Halite beds in contact with these waters undergo dissolution. Salt springs and brine seeps, some associated with sinkholes and depressions, occur in the discharge area and indicate that dissolution is an ongoing process.

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Section: Rates O F Salt Dissolution In the Vicinity O F Hall And Brismentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaporite dissolution and development of karst features on the rolling plains of the texas panhandle

Gustavson

Smpkins

Alhades

et al. 1982

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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Permian paleoclimate data from fluid inclusions in halite

Benison

Goldstein

1999

Chemical Geology

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Are sedimentary salt layers always impermeable?

Yechieli

Rönen

Berkowitz

1995

Geophysical Research Letters

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We report here, for the first time, the finding of a 24 to 31 m deep, 10,000 y old, water‐saturated and highly hydraulically conductive salt layer composed of idiomorphic halite crystals in the coastal area of the Dead Sea. The high hydraulic conductivity of the layer was evidenced by laboratory and field tests and by the rapid fluctuations of the water table, in a well penetrating the layer, following variations in the water level of the Dead Sea. Such layers may lead to intensive and rapid flow of water and non‐polar liquids.

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Geology and Geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle...(1981)

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaporite dissolution and development of karst features on the rolling plains of the texas panhandle

Evaporite dissolution and development of karst features on the rolling plains of the texas panhandle

Permian paleoclimate data from fluid inclusions in halite

Are sedimentary salt layers always impermeable?

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