Permian Basin Field Area, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

Hills, John M.

doi:10.1130/spe88-p17

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“…Later workers suggested that dissolution of salt or gypsum at depth resulted in a variety of surface and subsurface structures and geomorphic features. Adams (1963), Jordan andVosburg (1963), Brown (1967), Hills (1968), Bachman and Johnson (1973), Johnson (1976, in press), Gustavson et af. (1980b) and Gustavson et af.…”

Section: Regional Salt Dissolutionmentioning

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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: Regional Salt Dissolutionmentioning

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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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“…The evaporites in the Delaware Basin have long been recognized as having an unusual hydrology [Hills, 1968]. Many impure layers within the salt beds have made the Salado es pecially vulnerable to the movement of water [Hills, 1979] and produced regionally exten sive and deep-seated dissolution of salt [An derson , 1981].…”

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WIPP or is “how wet” the real question?

Spiegel

Anderson

1988

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The appropriate question to ask about the Department of Defense (DOD) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) project in southeast New Mexico is not “Will Salt Repositories be Dry?” (J. D. Bredehoeft, in Eos, March 1, 1988, p. 121) but “How Fast and How Much WIPP Brine Will Reach Waste Containers?” Bredehoeft's Table 1 (p. 121) shows seven values of permeability (out of 20 tests) that are substantially greater than 1 microdarcy. Bredehoeft's statement that “… test data … indicate low permeabilities, ranging from 1 microdarcy to ∼1 nanodarcy…” should read something like “The small sample of 20 tests include seven tests that gave maximum permeability values ranging from 3000 microdarcies to 3 microdarcies, with an average maximum value for the 20 tests of about 300 microdarcies.” This larger value of permeability would reduce tunnel‐filling time from the 50–100 year range to 2–4 months.

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Selley¹

1985

Ancient Sedimentary Environments

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Permian Basin Field Area, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

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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

WIPP or is “how wet” the real question?

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