Darmstadt Anticline (Discarded)

Location

T2 and 3S, R6W, St. Clair County

References

Shaw 1915a and 1921, Moulton 1925, Bell 1929a, J. Weller and Bell 1937, Cady et al. 1940

Description

Subsurface mapping of the Herrin Coal Member (Pennsylvanian) by Shaw and other researchers indicated an anticlinal nose, the Darmstadt Anticline. The structure is about 10 miles (16 km) long and plunges toward the north-northeast. The highest point on this nose and the only mapped area of closure is what Bell (1929a) called the Marissa Dome in Section 32, T3S, R6W. Bell recommended the Darmstadt Anticline for petroleum exploration and compared it with the Waterloo-Dupo Anticline. Subsequent drilling has shown no anticline, and no oil has been discovered. The name Marissa Dome is retained because closure has been mapped, but use of the name Darmstadt Anticline should be discontinued.

See also MARISSA DOME.