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Title: National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana

Abstract

The uranium resource potential of the Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana, was evaluated to a depth of 1500 m (5000 ft) using criteria established for the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program. Data derived from geochemical analyses of surface samples (substrate, soil, and stream sediment) in conjunction with hydrochemical data from water wells were used to evaluate geologic environments as being favorable or unfavorable for the occurrence of uranium deposits. Two favorable environments have been identified in the Palestine Quadrangle: potential deposits of modified Texas roll-type in fluvial channels and associated facies within the Yegua Formation, and potential occurrences along mineralization fronts associated with the Elkhart Graben and Mount Enterprise fault system. Unfavorable environments include: Cretaceous shales and limestones, Tertiary fine-grained marine sequences, Tertiary sandstone units that exhibit favorable host-rock characteristics but fail to show significant syngenetic or epigenetic mineralization, and Quaternary sands and gravels. Unevaluated units include the Woodbine Group (Upper Cretaceous), Jackson Group (Tertiary), and Catahoula Formation (Tertiary). The subsurface interval of the Jackson Group and Catahoula Formation contains depositional facies that may represent favorable environments; however, the evaluation of these units is inconclusive because of the general lack of shallow subsurface control and core material. The Woodbine Group,more » restricted to the subsurface except for a small exposure over Palestine Dome, occurs above 1500 m (5000 ft) in the northwest quarter of the quadrangle. The unit exhibits favorable host-rock characteristics, but the paucity of gamma logs and cores, as well as the lack of hydrogeochemical and stream-sediment reconnaissance data, makes evaluation of the unit difficult.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Bureau of Economic Geology
OSTI Identifier:
6883405
Report Number(s):
PGJ/F-105-82
ON: DE82021656
DOE Contract Number:  
AC13-76GJ01664
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Includes 27 sheets of 24x reduction microfiche. Portions of document are illegible
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; DATA ANALYSIS; LOUISIANA; URANIUM DEPOSITS; TEXAS; EVALUATION; EXPLORATION; GROUND WATER; SEDIMENTS; STREAMS; FEDERAL REGION VI; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MINERAL RESOURCES; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RESOURCES; SURFACE WATERS; SURVEYS; USA; WATER; 050200* - Nuclear Fuels- Exploration- (-1987)

Citation Formats

McGowen, M, Basciano, J, Fose, Jr, F G, and Fisher, W L. National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
McGowen, M, Basciano, J, Fose, Jr, F G, & Fisher, W L. National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana. United States.
McGowen, M, Basciano, J, Fose, Jr, F G, and Fisher, W L. 1982. "National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana". United States.
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title = {National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana},
author = {McGowen, M and Basciano, J and Fose, Jr, F G and Fisher, W L},
abstractNote = {The uranium resource potential of the Palestine Quadrangle, Texas and Louisiana, was evaluated to a depth of 1500 m (5000 ft) using criteria established for the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program. Data derived from geochemical analyses of surface samples (substrate, soil, and stream sediment) in conjunction with hydrochemical data from water wells were used to evaluate geologic environments as being favorable or unfavorable for the occurrence of uranium deposits. Two favorable environments have been identified in the Palestine Quadrangle: potential deposits of modified Texas roll-type in fluvial channels and associated facies within the Yegua Formation, and potential occurrences along mineralization fronts associated with the Elkhart Graben and Mount Enterprise fault system. Unfavorable environments include: Cretaceous shales and limestones, Tertiary fine-grained marine sequences, Tertiary sandstone units that exhibit favorable host-rock characteristics but fail to show significant syngenetic or epigenetic mineralization, and Quaternary sands and gravels. Unevaluated units include the Woodbine Group (Upper Cretaceous), Jackson Group (Tertiary), and Catahoula Formation (Tertiary). The subsurface interval of the Jackson Group and Catahoula Formation contains depositional facies that may represent favorable environments; however, the evaluation of these units is inconclusive because of the general lack of shallow subsurface control and core material. The Woodbine Group, restricted to the subsurface except for a small exposure over Palestine Dome, occurs above 1500 m (5000 ft) in the northwest quarter of the quadrangle. The unit exhibits favorable host-rock characteristics, but the paucity of gamma logs and cores, as well as the lack of hydrogeochemical and stream-sediment reconnaissance data, makes evaluation of the unit difficult.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6883405}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982}
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