Some Salt Dome Facts
Including Related Info etc
- USGS Report on Gulf Coast Salt Domes – with locations
- A Brief History of Salt Cavern Use < from 2000
- About a Salt Dome < has cap rock explained
- Solution Mining Research Institute
- 1992 Wesley, Texas salt dome explosion
- The Main Causes of a Geomechanical Accident of Brine Caverns at Field 2 of Ocnele Mari – Romania
- Geologic Evaluation for Domal Salt Storage Projects (1998 paper)
- Geologic Analysis of the Napoleonville Salt Dome by Golden Gate Petroleum, 2012
- 2012 Napoelonville Salt Dome Subsidence Report
- Salt Tectonics
- GRAPHIC: The Salt Dome Nudged by the Big Hum
- Info on the Napoleonville Salt Dome from USGS (above)
- Explanation of Salt Dome, Caverns & Wells at the Sinkhole
- Abstract – Multiple Flow and Cavern Abandonment in Salt
- Cross section diagram deepwater, deep shelf
- Tensile Effective Stresses in Hydrocarbon Storage Caverns
- 2007 Report – Features of Bayou Choctaw SPR Caverns and Internal Structure of the [failed] Salt Dome (up near Baton Rouge)
- Bayou Corne, Louisiana, sinkhole: Precursory deformation measured by radar interferometry
- CORS911: Real-Time Subsidence Monitoring of the Napoleonville Salt Dome Sinkhole Using GPS (April, 2013) < ALT Link (PDF)
- AGM Inc. – History of Salt Cavern Use (PDF)
- Salt Domes in the Gulf Coast Aquifer
- Subsidence, Sinkholes and Piping Associated with Gulf Coast Salt Domes (2000)
- Mine-induced Sinkholes Over the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Storage Facility at Weeks Island, Louisiana: Geologic Causes and Effects
- American Geological Institute – Nature of growth of southern Louisiana salt domes and its effect on petroleum accumulation
- PHOTOS of inside a salt dome
- LA. State Report on Geology with maps & charts ( PDF )
- Clemson University MAP of salt domes in LA.
- LA. map with energy industry info
- Cutaway view graphic – Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
- THE CENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION SALT DOMES OF THE GULF COAST EXTRACTIONINGS AND DEFLATIONSCAPES
- Hydrogeologic Framework of Southern Louisiana – USGS (PDF) – lists aquifers, faults, with charts etc.
- GEOLOGIC AND HYDROLOGIC SUMMARY OF SALT DOMES IN GULF COAST REGION OF TEXAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA
OFFSHORE: New Shelf Frontier In Ultradeep Geology Below Salt
Lake Peigneur
Information on the salt dome collapse at Lake Peigneur and the current fight to keep it from be exploited by gas companies once again can be found by entering “Lake Peigneur” in the search bar.
TOXIC
- Texas Salt Domes – Aspects Affecting Disposal of Toxic-Chemical Waste in Solution-Mined Caverns
- Examination of Texas Salt Domes as Potential Sites for Permanent Storage of Toxic Chemical Waste (1985)
NUKE WASTE & SALT DOMES
- DOE – NORM Storage in Salt Domes
- Rad Waste and Plain Waste – Risks from Salt Cavern Disposal
ALT. LINK – here [PDF] - Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Underground Experiments in a Dome Salt Formation
- Info on nuclear waste stored in salt domes < VIDEO from Jim Lee
- DOE – New Mexico – WIPP accident report
- Nuke Waste Dumped at Sea – has map
AQUIFER INFO
- Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer
- Louisiana Freshwater Aquifers (MAP)
- Geological Society paper on Louisiana Water
- USGS – Bioremediation: Nature’s Way to a Cleaner Environment
- All About Louisiana Water including industrial use
- SALT DOMES AND WATER QUALITY IN THE GULF COAST AQUIFER, 2008 paper
- Louisiana Drainage (maps)
- More on the Louisiana water table. And more.
OTHER
Gone with the Water – National Geographic on the ecology of Louisiana’s wetlands
Lots on faults, subsidence, effects of levees etc. – WHAT IS CAUSING COASTAL EROSION IN LOUISIANA?
Effects of Earthquakes, Fault Movements, and Subsidence on the S. Louisiana Landscape
see METHANE page for more science links and Natural Gas info
How to find info in PDF documents
The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle 
Wasn’t the imploded cavern a drilling “brine” injection well? The things I’ve been reading today sound like the brine came up but maybe something else went in?
look at the blogroll on the right sidebar – Freedomrox’s blog will have all the nitty gritty on the cavern operations and history of activity.
More organized than the Bugle 😉
Thanks. I think I finally understood that they claim to be mining for caustic soda and things like that, but that it is suspected that they may have illegally put NORM and come to think of it you have a document that says there is NORM. I will check out the Freedomrox too. I was just trying to add something on it quickly to a post on an illegal injection well. I found some important things on injection of rad wastes on your blog too.
as I recall, anytime I had a post featuring ‘NORM’ I put it in the search tags, so try the search box on the upper right side of the blog.
And try the Methane page too….
Freedom Rox is even more complicated actually. Both are imperative if I need to know everything, but I don’t have time right now. However, it reminds me of the document I found on your site and there again is Sandia and it was a Sandia worker who is behind the 100 mSv and Sandia is Lockheed and Lockheed also wanted the high rad levels. But, it gets worse and I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this. The current FBI head used to be VP and lawyer for Lockheed for 5 years. And, one can hope his loyalties don’t lie there and that maybe he left because he doesn’t like Lockheed but it sure looks bad. And, btw, human rights watch accuses the FBI of going overboard on entrapment-like behavior (and worse) on mentally disabled or psychologically desperate or people who just want to know about religion. This predates the Lockheed guy. It makes me wonder if they were really after Eddie Edwards because he was trying to protect Rollins who were believed burning tox and rad waste unfiltered in N. Baton Rouge or if they just went after him because he made fun of them in trial. I guess there has to be some good and bad in the FBI. It just doesn’t seem right to let a former Lockheed VP be FBI top, unless he is known to have had a fall-out. I think people have been blind to think that a country who killed the American Indians and is yet killing them wouldn’t go after them too.
‘The Intercept’ follows these entrapment stories ….
http://firstlook.org/theintercept/
and check out ‘The Power of Nightmares’
(link is here –
http://flyingcuttlefish.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/fbi/ )
Thanks for your help. Here is the result: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/oil-drilling-waste-brine-includes-radioactive-materials-disposal-well-operator-indicted-on-multiple-felony-charges-in-north-dakota/
I wonder why there weren’t felony charges against the State of Louisiana or Texas Brine. I had forgotten they KNEW ahead.
oh, I just got this sent to me ….
…. on your topic!
https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/i-should-have-thought-it-would-be-a-blessing-to-be-neglected-by-a-boss-who-looks-like-this/
… also see this –
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/virginia-teen-with-pro-isis-twitter-account-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison/
Search isn’t working for me. Don’t recall if you have this: http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/OCD/documents/FREQUENTLYASKEDQUESTIONSABOUTBRINEWELLS.pdf
One of your links is dead. I think this is part of it: http://www.evs.anl.gov/downloads/Veil-et-al-1998-Salt-Cavern-Risk-Assessment.pdf
works fine for me
The one that is not working is the one that you have under: “Rad Waste and Plain Waste – Risks from Salt Cavern Disposal” http://web.evs.anl.gov/saltcaverns/uses/wastedisp/disprisks/index.htm I found the pdf as a replacement link.
OK. I saved my own copy and I’ll put it on the Salt dome page now….
Click to access salt-cavern-risk-assessment.pdf