Mississippi’s fifth shallow salt dome was discovered by the drilling of the Magnolia Petroleum Company’s Brown-Paxton No. 1, in Sec. 12, T. 14 N., R. 4 E., Warren County, Mississippi. This test, located as the result of geophysical work, was abandoned as a dry hole on November 23, 1940, after penetrating 293 feet into salt. After drilling 1,620 feet into the Wilcox section, dolomitic sand was encountered at a depth of 4,935 feet, followed by porous broken dolomitic limestone at 5,055 feet, anhydrite cap rock at 5,086 feet, and finally salt at 5,108 feet. The name which is used to...

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