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Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: A 
Model
for the Evolution of Salt Diapirs and
Salt Dome Overhang, East Texas Basin
Model for the Evolution of Salt Diapirs and
Salt Dome Overhang, East Texas BasinBy
Enron Oil and Gas Company
Seismic and well log data at Brushy Creek Dome in Anderson County, Texas, show an orderly sequence of events leading to the development of the salt dome overhang. Dome development begins with a salt anticline that swells to the point of crestal breeching. A salt stock grows with sedimentation. From the breeched anticline, overhang development results from a second period of growth after a cycle of burial. The overlying beds are uplifted, and the salt spreads laterally along bedding planes that are splayed apart.
The overhang growth ends when
the underlying salt chamber is evacuated
and one limb of the anticline is
downthrown into the salt cavity along
a "closed vent fault". The sequence of
events has been generalized into a
model that applies to domes at intermediate
basin depths (<20,000 feet basin
thickness).
Since the salt stock is made smaller
by the sediment collapse into the salt
cavity, and the structure beneath the
overhang on the uncollapsed side of the
dome is generally high, petroleum accumulation
can be expected below the
salt dome overhang.
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