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Some Salt Creek oil wells in the 1910s-20s were uncontrollable gushers. Before pipelines, storage tanks, and advanced equipment, much oil soaked into the ground, ran into streams, and was burned to reduce runoff. A few early Sa…
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Anticline & Domes
Salt Creek Oilfield is a classic "anticline." Being oval in shape, this type of anticline is also called a "dome." Soft, porous stone that originally capped t…
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Stockmen were aware of pools of oil in the creek bottoms during cattle trailing days. These oil seeps led to the discovery of Salt Creek, one of Wyoming's largest oil fields, nine miles long by five miles wide.
In 1883, the first claims were f…