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Welcome Saline Conference/TORCH

Welcome Saline Conference/TORCH. Since 1912 Since 2012. Thanks to:. Morton Salt…Ed Fasulo Joy Global Corp….Dan Flournoy Mr. Ben E. Jarvis…Steen Saline Jason Singhurst TPWD co-chair Kim Norton BRIT Clifford Shackelford TPWD moderator Craig Rudolph USFS Wayne Elisens TORCH

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Welcome Saline Conference/TORCH

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  1. Welcome Saline Conference/TORCH • Since 1912 • Since 2012

  2. Thanks to: • Morton Salt…Ed Fasulo • Joy Global Corp….Dan Flournoy • Mr. Ben E. Jarvis…Steen Saline • Jason Singhurst TPWD co-chair • Kim Norton BRIT • Clifford Shackelford TPWD moderator • Craig Rudolph USFS • Wayne Elisens TORCH • Amanda Neill TORCH

  3. TORCH • Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria • NSF funded effort at broad scale cooperation

  4. Saline Prairies and Marshes of Inland East Texas • Sources of information • Soil surveys • Google earth • Geology reports • Digital newspapers…today we know more about the past than they did in the past. • Which are gone • Significance…salt running like a thread throughout Texas History • Caddo • Spanish early grants French Fort LeDout (Woldert site) • Anglo Pedro Ellias Bean seed tick springs • Civil war • Oil/gas, salt sulphur (Woldert wells) • Salt, sulphur • China? • Need cooperative effort • Research questions • Origin and age? • Vicariance or dispersal? • Plant Source for phytoremediation? • Gene source for engineering? • Converting polluted sites to endangered species habitat?

  5. Origin and Formation • Jurassic salts • Deposited up to 8km deep

  6. Louann Salt

  7. Younger = domesOlder = basins, marshes

  8. Survey map showing Carmona claims in 1838.

  9. Steen’s Saline • Smith County

  10. 1864 seven salt makers • With exemption

  11. Veatch, 1902. The salines of north Louisiana. Special Report No.2,In A report on the geology of Louisiana

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