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Location: 40 km SE from Batavia, New York, United States
5520 NY-63P.O. Box 190Mt. MorrisNew York, United States14510
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The salt units of the southern tier region of New York State are Upper Silurian in age, and were deposited in a large intercontinental sea during arid times some 415 Million years ago. Similar seas in the areas of Michigan and from Ohio to Indiana lead to similar deposits in those areas. One salt unit beneath Detroit is more than a kilometer thick. A cyclic process of seawater influx into these landlocked seas and subsequent evaporation led to the development of thick evaporate sequences. The closest modern analog may be the Dead Sea in Israel, where restricted circulation in an arid environment generates a hypersaline seaway with salt deposition in the lower parts of the basin.In New York, thick Upper Silurian salt extends from the northern end of the Finger Lakes to the Pennsylvania border. Because the Paleozoic units in western New York dip south gently, the unit is closest to the surface near its northern extent (~500’ below in Livingston County) and deepest (~4000’ below the surface) near the Pennsylvania border (see subsurface map below, Alling, 1928).Naturally the shallower locations provide better economics for mining. It is interesting to note that while the bedded salt deposits of New York are thinner than the massive salt deposits in the Gulf of Mexico region they are much more laterally continuous and easier to follow and mine. Halite was the principal mineral deposited in the Upper Silurian Salina Group deposit. With little impurity present to lessen its effect in reducing the freezing point of water, it is an excellent source of road salt.
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