Panama Anticline (Discarded)

Location

Northwestern Bond County

References

Bell 1926c, 1941, Lee 1926

Description

Blatchley (1914) and Kay (1915) mapped a structure in southern Montgomery and northwestern Bond Counties and named it the Sorento Dome. Bell (1926c) divided the Sorento Dome into the New Douglas Dome on the west and the Panama Anticline on the east. On Bell's (1941) revised subsurface structure map of the Herrin Coal Member, the New Douglas Dome was deleted but the Panama Anticline was retained.

Bell's (1941) structure map shows the Panama Anticline as an irregular east-trending anticlinal nose with possible small areas of closure. Well control in the area is sparse. The western end of the nose terminates against the Walshville channel where the Herrin Coal is absent.

Mapping at deeper horizons does not reveal a structure resembling that mapped by Bell on the coal. The structure in the coal is too ill-defined to name.

See also NEW DOUGLAS DOME (discarded) and SORENTO DOME (discarded).