Are there any geologist here?
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ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
I have a few questions about some dirt along the gulf coast..
I made the run between High Island and Sabine dozens of times in my Jeeps. The road (87) is washed out and it's rough as Hell. In some places, black dirt/mud is exposed beneath the sand. I checked into that and was told by the Ranger in Sabine that the black stuff is the remains of an ancient marsh. There are many bones imbedded in the marsh and as storms come in, new marsh is exposed.
A word of caution about that black marsh. It isn't mud. In several of our trips down the "Gauntlet" as we called it, we saw a shrimp boat that had washed ashore and gotten stuck in the black marsh mud. It was stuck for a long time. They called a tractor/shovel /cat in to dig the shrimper out. The shovel got stuck and flooded at high tide. They called in another tracked shovel and got it stuck in the black crap! I tried to Jeep around that mess and got my Wrangler stuck and needed to get it pulled out! I have pulled more than 12 vehicles out of that crap with my Jeeps! There is no bottom to that stuff.
If you're at the beach and see black..........stay the Hell out of it! It will swallow your 4 wheeler! The worst places are near the water line where the black is covered by a thin layer of sand. You can''t see the black but it's there waiting to swallow your Jeep! We took a "high road" and a "low road." When we saw black, we headed for the higher road.
I don't know if that's the dirt you were referring to but that's my experience at the coast.
Flash
I made the run between High Island and Sabine dozens of times in my Jeeps. The road (87) is washed out and it's rough as Hell. In some places, black dirt/mud is exposed beneath the sand. I checked into that and was told by the Ranger in Sabine that the black stuff is the remains of an ancient marsh. There are many bones imbedded in the marsh and as storms come in, new marsh is exposed.
A word of caution about that black marsh. It isn't mud. In several of our trips down the "Gauntlet" as we called it, we saw a shrimp boat that had washed ashore and gotten stuck in the black marsh mud. It was stuck for a long time. They called a tractor/shovel /cat in to dig the shrimper out. The shovel got stuck and flooded at high tide. They called in another tracked shovel and got it stuck in the black crap! I tried to Jeep around that mess and got my Wrangler stuck and needed to get it pulled out! I have pulled more than 12 vehicles out of that crap with my Jeeps! There is no bottom to that stuff.
If you're at the beach and see black..........stay the Hell out of it! It will swallow your 4 wheeler! The worst places are near the water line where the black is covered by a thin layer of sand. You can''t see the black but it's there waiting to swallow your Jeep! We took a "high road" and a "low road." When we saw black, we headed for the higher road.
I don't know if that's the dirt you were referring to but that's my experience at the coast.
Flash
RetArmySgt
Glad to be back.
Can you describe what this soil looks like, ill I'm seeing on the Geotechnical Engineering reports I'm finding for the Galveston region are showing Course to fine sand, and Sandy Clay at 100 feet. I cant find any reports going deeper that 100 feet.
Im not a geo but Im a construction inspector. Im the guy that makes sure the foundations for buildings drilled that deep are in the right bearing strata. What kind of question do you have? Youre probably going to be fairly hard pressed to find out what is that deep in that area as we only do soils borings for buildings and buildings big enough to need a foundation that deep arent built on the water here in Texas.
I know whats there, I drill water wells, but I am looking to see if any research has been done. Such as age or origin. Its called poleo soil, but thats about all I know about it. There are a few very odd and unique attributes that I would like to find information on.
I have. The USGS did not seem to have time or be the least bit interested. The colleges I have tried to talk to did not have
anyone the studied this part of the word in any more detail that I have found online.
1slow01Z71
There is a layer of soil at one hundred feet, around the Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, Baytown Corpus Christi area. I would like to know if there have been any studies on the age or origin of this soil.
txgunner00
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Have you tried A&M Galveston?
Not yet, but I will now..Haven't even thought about them.
lol,,,boooooooooo
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