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Página 51 - Rock salt, its origin, geological occurrences and economic importance in the State of Louisiana, together with brief notes and references to all known salt deposits and industries of the world: La.
Página 132 - In a former part of this chapter we have had occasion frequently torefer to this author's work regarding more recent oil developments in the Texas fields. After tabulating the characteristic materials of the Coast Plain domes, he concludes : The normal order of depth of the materials in the mounds or oil fields is as follows: 4. Unconsolidated sediments. 3. Porous limestone. 2. Gypsum. 1. Salt. While the position of the sulphur varies, it is most frequently found in or near the limestone. Petroleum...
Página 124 - The oil and salt pockets of the Texas Coastal Plain are probably not indigenous to the strata in which they are found, but are the resultant products of columns of hot saline waters which have ascended, under hydrostatic pressure, at points along lines of structural weakness, through thousands of feet of shale, sand, and marine littoral sediments of the Coastal Plain section, through which oil and sand are disseminated in more or less minute quantities. The oil, with sulphur, may have been floated...
Página 119 - ... in the Tertiary of that State and of Louisiana. In the basins and embayments formed the Eocene strata were deposited, the very existence of which proves that there was no interval of a land period between the Cretaceous and Tertiary in this State, and if we could remove the covering mantle...
Página 67 - ... feet thick. Moreover, the surface of the salt was heated by hand torches and painted with asphalt. Below the tubular portion, the shaft is square and continues to a total depth of 645 feet. "Mining operations are conducted in somewhat the same manner as at Jefferson Island and at Avery Island.
Página 98 - There is but one mention of the occurrence of salt at Batson. If the observations of the drillers were correct, 12 feet of salt were found in the Paraffine No. 12, northeast of the centre of the field, at a depth of 1,007 feet, or 130 feet above the oil rock.
Página 302 - Abyssinia was estimated at 14,000 metric tonsMZ (one metrict ton equals 2.205 pounds). Importation and Exportation. — Some sea salt is imported from the coast of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and a small amout of foreign refined salt is used in Abyssinia. It is quite possible that some salt is exported to Egyptian Soudan, but there are no estimates of the amounts imported and exported.
Página 72 - The C (coarse) and F (fine) salt is used for dry salting meats, clearing oleomargarine, and in all sorts of chemical works. The A grade is a special one made to suit the customer who regards No. 1 as too large and the C as too small for his purposes, such as making ice cream and pickles. The D grade is also a special one, consisting of powdered salt which results from the grinding of any of the crushed grades in the mill and which is used for any purpose where rapid solution of the salt is desired.
Página 75 - York, the cars are drawn upon the platform of the cage and hoisted and dumped by hand at the top floor of the mill. The heavy crushing is therefore done in the mill instead of at the foot of the shaft, as described at Weeks.
Página 147 - The manufacturers of brine salt in other parts of the State obtain their supplies from wells driven into the rock salt.