... areal extent or thickness. FIG. 3. —Structure contours of Avery Island Dome on top salt. FIG. 4. —Generalized block diagram of Avery Island Dome. The surface of Avery Island is composed chiefly of brownish yellow loamy soil with some exposures of gravel. The sand and gravel...

... at Hockley and summarized previous work. Goldman (1933) discussed the reported occurrences of large inclusions and pointed out that little is known about these, excepting for the one at Avery Island. Occasionally, published reports on salt domes contain drillers’ logs in which reference is made...

... that the discovery of deep flank production at Avery Island salt dome in Iberia Parish, and of multi-sand gas-distillate accumulation at Krotz Springs, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, will be important. The poor results of the 1942 exploratory campaign appear to be attributable in part to the fact that most...

..., the Avery Island dome in the lower Gulf Coast of Louisiana, described in detail by Bates et al. (1959) , shows very little drag in the flanking strata, which consist essentially of sandstone of shallow-marine to nonmarine origin. Salt on the dome is found within a few feet of the a position which...

...-Texas coast : GSA Guidebook , p. 27 – 30 . Kupfer , D. H. , 1988 , The internal structure of the Five Island salt domes, in Avery and Jefferson Islands, Louisiana : AAPG Field Trip Guidebook , p. 9 – 20 . Molinda , G. H. , 1988 , Investigations of methane occurrence...

... surrounded by sea marsh or partly by marsh and partly by the water of embayments from the Gulf of Mexico. In order, from the northwest, they are: Jefferson Island, Avery Island, Weeks Island, Côte Blanche, and Belle Isle ( Fig. 1 ). Fig. 1.— Map showing Salt Domes in southern Louisiana...

... ), pp. 2592 - 2622 ; 23 figs. Bates , Fred W. , Copeland , Robert R. , JR. , and Dixon , Kenneth P. , 1959 , “ Avery Island Salt Dome, Iberia Parish, Louisiana ”, ibid. , Vol. 43 , No. 5 ( May ), pp. 944 - 57 ; 7 figs. Burton , R. P. , 1959 , “ New Log Interpretation...

...Figure 1. Magnetic anomaly map of Louisiana (United States) and environs. Red is magnetic high, blue is magnetic low. Seven black dots are salt domes of Five Islands trend. Note that three salt domes containing mafic xenoliths (J—Jefferson, Av—Avery, W—Weeks) are above magnetic high interpreted...

... THE CONTINENTAL SHELF An aerial mosaic of Avery Island, 6 one of the salt domes which reached the surface, is shown in Figure 4 . This dome has elevated the surface 190 feet and is the highest on the Gulf Coast. Fossils indicate that the salt springs which are present here were visited by many...

...FIG. 1. Outline map of southern Louisiana, showing location of Five Islands salt domes. J: Jefferson Island; A: Avery Island; W: Weeks Island; CB: Côte Blanche; BI: Belle Isle. Also shown are near-by salt domes VB: Vermilion Bay; NI: New Iberia. ...

... distances, that movement is most likely to be in spines. The new evidence for spines of motion is based on observations from inside the salt stocks of the Five-Island salt domes ( Fig. 1 ). These domes are intermediate in size and position, being neither at the basin margin which lies 200 mi (350 km...

... 1924 American Association of Petroleum Geologists On the field trip that included a visit to the salt mine on Avery’s Island, Louisiana, following the Houston meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, a great many samples of the sandstone inclusion in the salt were collected...

... accumulation almost midway between Avery Island and Weeks Island piercement salt domes. The discovery well is reported to have 40 ft of oil in a sandstone at 16,750 ft in the Siphonina davisi zone. A confirmation attempt drilled 1, 300 ft east was on a separate fault block and dry. The Northwest Bayou...

.... The topographic mounds at Belle Isle and Jefferson, which are coextensive only with the salt spines, are smaller and lower than those of Avery Island, Weeks Island, and Cote Blanche, which are coextensive with the whole dome. The line of the Five Islands is parallel with the writer’s Iberian structural axis...

...) and structural (brecciated) character. REFERENCES CITED Balk , R. , 1949 , Structure of Grand Saline salt dome, Van Zandt County, Texas : AAPG Bull. , v. 33 , p. 1791 – 1829 . Balk , R. , 1953 , Salt structure of Jefferson Island salt dome, Iberia and Vermilion Parishes, Louisiana...

... a comparison with salt domes, as some Gulf Coast domes are slightly to moderately inclined from the vertical, e.g ., the Avery Island dome, Louisiana, is inclined about 13° from the vertical ( New Orleans Geol. Soc., 1961 ) and the Cote Blanche Island dome, Louisiana ( New Orleans Geol. Soc., 1963...