OIL REFINERIES IN SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY Thomas E. Ewing, Frontera Exploration Consultants SUMMARY At least 16 crude oil refineries have recorded production, although only one remains today, the TSAR on South Presa. Three sites today are Superfund sites, one is an active products terminal, and the others are vacant or covered by development. This paper inventories the known and possible sites, with my best estimate of location and dates that they were active. There were two waves of refinery construction.
September 2024 Bulletin
BUILDING SAN ANTONIO -- Building materials for missions and downtown buildings, 1731-1877By T. E. Ewing, for submission to STGS Bulletin, August, 2024SummaryBefore 1877 (the coming of the railroad), building of permanent stone structures relied on local materials.
May 2024 Bulletin
Paleontological inventory of Paleozoic, Late Mesozoic, and Cenozoic plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate fossil species from Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA – over a century of paleontological discoverySteven L. Wick11 Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758, USAAbstractThe extraordinary paleontological record from Big Bend National Park (BIBE), Texas chronicles nearly 120 million years of largely uninterrupted deposition through Late Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene time.
April 2024 Bulletin
Characterizing groundwater and surface-water interaction using hydrograph-separation techniques and groundwater-level data throughout the Mississippi Delta, USA_Courtney D. Killian & William H. Asquith & Jeannie R. B. Barlow & Gardner C. Bent & Wade H. Kress & Paul M. Barlow & Darrel W.
March 2024 Bulletin
Land Subsidence in the Texas Coastal Bend: Locations, Rates, Triggers, and Consequences by Michael Haley1, Mohamed Ahmed1,*, Esayas Gebremichael2, Dorina Murgulet1 and Michael Starek31 Center for Water Supply Studies, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA2 Department of Geological Sciences, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA3 Department of Computing Sciences, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA Abstract
February Bulletin 2024
HISTORY OF THE SULFURIC ACID THEORY OF SPELEOGENESIS IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICODAVID H. JAGNOW P. O. Box 93398, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87119-3398 USACAROL A. HILL 17 El Arco Drive, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123-9542 USADONALD G. DAVIS 441 S. Kearney St., Denver, Colorado 80224-1237 USAHARVEY R. DUCHENE 7216 East Bentley Circle, Englewood, Colorado 80112-1197 USAKIMBERLEY I. CUNNINGHAM Geo-Microbial Technologies Inc., P.O. Box 132, Ochelata, Oklahoma 74051 USADIANA E.
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