Liberty County Research Articles

The South Dayton Salt Dome, Liberty County, Texas

The South Dayton-Liberty salt dome is a characteristic Gulf Coast salt dome. The salt core is 1½ by 2½ miles in diameter and comes to within 500 feet of the surface. The major diameter strikes N. 30° E. The cap is 150-250 feet thick and consists of gypsum and anhydrite with a thin capping of limestone. The beds penetrated in drilling are Jackson to Recent in age. The top of the dome has been well tested; although shows of oil and sulphur were had, neither was found in commercial quantity. The lateral sands have be en tested only by three moderately deep wells and still offer possibilities of discovery of production.

Additions to the 'Birds of Liberty County, Ga.'

Additions to the 'Birds of Liberty County, Ga.'

Some Summer Birds of Liberty County, Georgia

Some Summer Birds of Liberty County, Georgia

Cenozoic Geology along the Apalachicola River

Introduction. The most complete series of Neozoic rocks in continuous succession which has yet been observed on the Gulf coast is that which is exhibited in the natural sections exposed in the bluffs of the Flint and Apalachicola rivers, in southwestern Georgia and western Florida. For this reason the series has been adopted in various publications* as a standard by which to correlate the different Neocene beds of this general region. The longest continuous series of beds in one section is exposed at Alum bluff, in township 8, range 1 north, section 24, Liberty county, Florida. Attention was first called to this series by Mr D. W. Langdon in 1889,† from observations made two years earlier. At the suggestion of Mr T. H. Aldrich, who had identified Langdon’s fossils, and, in cooperation with him, Mr Frank Burns, of the United States Geological Survey, was sent to Alum bluff in . . .