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Persits, F. M. , Ulmishek, G. F. , and Steinshouer, D. W. , 1998, Maps showing geology, oil and gas fields and geological provinces of the Former Soviet Union: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-470E, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado.This is part of the following larger work.
U.S. Geological Survey, 1998, World energy data on CD-ROM: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-470.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set.
The map projection used is Equidistant Conic.
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 1
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 1
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
The horizontal datum used is N/A.
The ellipsoid used is Krasovsky.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378245.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.301.
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Q | Quaternary (undivided) |
| QT | Quaternary and Tertiary |
| N | Neogene |
| NPg | Neogene and Paleogene |
| Pg | Paleogene |
| PgK | Paleogene and Cretaceous |
| K | Cretaceous (undivided) |
| KJ | Cretaceous and Jurassic |
| J | Jurassic (undivided) |
| JTr | Jurassic and Triassic |
| Tr | Triassic |
| Pz | Paleozoic (undivided) |
| P | Permian |
| TrP | Triassic and Permian |
| PC | Permian - Carboniferous |
| C | Carboniferous |
| CD | Carboniferous and Devonian |
| D | Devonian (undivided) |
| DS | Devonian and Silurian |
| S | Silurian |
| SO | Silurian - Ordovician |
| O | Ordovician |
| OCm | Ordovician - Cambrian |
| Cm | Cambrian |
| pC | Precambrian (undivided) |
| CmPt | Cambrian - Proterozoic |
| Pt | Proterozoic |
| Z | Upper Proterozoic |
| Y | Upper and Middle Proterozoic |
| X | Lower and Middle Proterozoic |
| A | Archean |
| Qv | Extrusive rocks, Pliocene and Quaternary |
| TKi | Acidic intrusive rocks, Creteceous, Paleogene and Neogene |
| Mi | Acidic Mesozoic intrusive rocks |
| Pi | Paleozoic intrusive rocks |
| PtAi | Acidic Proterozoic and Archean intrusive rocks |
| ii | Basic, Ultrabasic and Alkaline intrusive rocks of unknown age |
| oth | Areas outside of the former Soviet Union |
| Ice | Arctic areas covered by Ice |
| Sea | Sea and large lakes |
| H2O | Lakes and wide rivers |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1003 | Moscow Basin |
| 1004 | Belorussian-Voronezh High |
| 1005 | Kotelnich Arch |
| 1006 | Mezen Basin |
| 1007 | Timan High |
| 1008 | Timan-Pechora Basin |
| 1009 | Dnieper-Donets Basin |
| 1010 | Pripyat Basin |
| 1011 | Russian Craton Margin |
| 1012 | Poles Saddle |
| 1013 | Ukrainian Shield |
| 1014 | Donbass Foldbelt |
| 1015 | Volga-Ural Region |
| 1016 | North Caspian Basin |
| 1017 | Ural-Novaya Zemlya Foldbelt |
| 1018 | Mugodzhary-South Emba |
| 1050 | South Barents Basin |
| 1051 | Kola Monocline-Finnmark Platform |
| 1059 | Ludlov Saddle |
| 1060 | North Barents Basin |
| 1061 | Admiralty Arch |
| 1062 | Novaya Zemlya Monocline |
| 1064 | Grumant Uplift |
| 1065 | North Novaya Zemlya Basin |
| 1066 | St. Anna Basin |
| 1067 | Vize High |
| 1068 | Ushakov High |
| 1069 | Uedineniya Basin |
| 1070 | Central Kara High |
| 1071 | Schmidt Basin |
| 1072 | Severnaya Zemlya High |
| 1102 | Black Sea Deep-Water Basin |
| 1103 | Dobrogea Foreland |
| 1104 | Crimea High |
| 1105 | North Crimea Basin |
| 1106 | Northeast Black Sea Shelf |
| 1107 | Black Sea Continental Slope |
| 1107 | Black Sea Continental Slope |
| 1108 | Azov-Kuban Basin |
| 1109 | Middle Caspian Basin |
| 1110 | Great Caucasus Foldbelt |
| 1111 | Rioni Basin |
| 1112 | South Caspian Basin |
| 1113 | Kura Basin |
| 1117 | Arctic Ocean Slope |
| 1150 | North Ustyurt Basin |
| 1151 | East Aral Basin |
| 1152 | Mangyshlak-Ustyurt Foldbelt |
| 1153 | Karabogaz-Karakum High |
| 1154 | Amu-Darya Basin |
| 1155 | Kopet-Dag Foldbelt |
| 1156 | Afghan-Tajik Basin |
| 1157 | Pamir High |
| 1158 | Tian Shan Foldbelt |
| 1159 | Fergana Basin |
| 1160 | Alay Basin |
| 1161 | Naryn Basin |
| 1162 | Issyk-Kul Basin |
| 1163 | West Ili Basin |
| 1164 | East Ili Basin |
| 1165 | Chu-Sarysu Basin |
| 1166 | Turgay Depression |
| 1167 | South Turgay Basin |
| 1168 | Central Kazakhstan Folded Region |
| 1169 | Alakol Basin |
| 1170 | Zaysan Basin |
| 1171 | Kuznetsk Basin |
| 1172 | North Minusa Basin |
| 1173 | South Minusa Basin |
| 1174 | West Siberian Basin |
| 1175 | Yenisey-Khatanga Basin |
| 1176 | Taimyr-Kara High |
| 1177 | Syr-Darya Basin |
| 1178 | East Aral Slope |
| 1200 | Anabar Basin |
| 1201 | Khatanga Saddle |
| 1202 | Anabar-Olenek High |
| 1203 | Tunguska Basin |
| 1204 | Turukhan-Norilsk Folded Zone |
| 1205 | Turukhan-Igarka Uplift |
| 1206 | Yenisey Ridge |
| 1207 | Baykit Arch |
| 1208 | Cis-Sayan Basin |
| 1209 | Angara-Lena Terrace |
| 1210 | Nepa-Botuoba Arch |
| 1211 | Cis-Patom Foredeep |
| 1212 | Kempendiay Region |
| 1214 | Lena-Vilyuy Basin |
| 1215 | Aldan Uplift |
| 1216 | Aldan Shield |
| 1217 | Upper Zeya Basin |
| 1218 | Laptev Shelf |
| 1219 | Altay-Sayan Folded Region |
| 1220 | Bureya-Dunbey Region |
| 1222 | Zeya-Bureya Basin |
| 1223 | Upper Bureya Basin |
| 1224 | Sikhote-Alin Folded Region |
| 1225 | Suifun Basin |
| 1226 | Khanka Basin |
| 1227 | Middle Amur Basin |
| 1230 | Baikal-Patom Folded Region |
| 1250 | Verkhoyan-Chukotka Folded Region |
| 1251 | Zyryanka Basin |
| 1252 | Moma Basin |
| 1253 | Ayon Basin |
| 1254 | Blagoveshchensk Basin |
| 1255 | Anzhu Uplift |
| 1256 | Novosibirsk Basin |
| 1257 | De Long High |
| 1258 | North Chukchi Basin |
| 1259 | Wrangel Basin |
| 1260 | Wrangel-Herald Uplift |
| 1261 | South Chukchi-Hope Basin |
| 1300 | Anadyr Basin |
| 1301 | Gangut High |
| 1302 | Khatyrka Basin |
| 1303 | Penzhina Basin |
| 1304 | Koryak-Kamchatka Foldbelt |
| 1305 | Kinkil Basin |
| 1306 | Talov Uplift |
| 1307 | Gizhigin Basin |
| 1308 | Koni-Tayganos Uplift |
| 1309 | North Okhotsk Group of Basins |
| 1310 | Tinro Basin |
| 1311 | West Kamchatka Basin |
| 1312 | Central Kamchatka Group of Basins |
| 1313 | East Kamchatka Uplift |
| 1314 | Olyutor Basin |
| 1315 | East Kamchatka Basin |
| 1316 | Kuril-Kamchatka Slope |
| 1317 | Onekotan Basin |
| 1318 | South Kuril Basin |
| 1319 | Central Okhotsk High |
| 1320 | South Okhotsk Basin |
| 1321 | Deryugin Basin |
| 1322 | North Sakhalin Basin |
| 1323 | East Sakhalin Uplift |
| 1324 | Terpeniya Bay Basin |
| 1325 | West Sakhalin Uplift |
| 1326 | Susunay Uplift |
| 1327 | Aniva Basin |
| 1328 | Tatar Strait Basin |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Moscow Basin | |
| Belorussian-Voronezh High | |
| Kotelnich Arch | |
| Mezen Basin | |
| Timan High | |
| Timan-Pechora Basin | |
| Dnieper-Donets Basin | |
| Pripyat Basin | |
| Russian Craton Margin | |
| Poles Saddle | |
| Ukrainian Shield | |
| Donbass Foldbelt | |
| Volga-Ural Region | |
| North Caspian Basin | |
| Ural-Novaya Zemlya Foldbelt | |
| Mugodzhary-South Emba | |
| South Barents Basin | |
| Kola Monocline-Finnmark Platform | |
| Ludlov Saddle | |
| North Barents Basin | |
| Admiralty Arch | |
| Novaya Zemlya Monocline | |
| Grumant Uplift | |
| North Novaya Zemlya Basin | |
| St. Anna Basin | |
| Vize High | |
| Ushakov High | |
| Uedineniya Basin | |
| Central Kara High | |
| Schmidt Basin | |
| Severnaya Zemlya High | |
| Black Sea Deep-Water Basin | |
| Dobrogea Foreland | |
| Crimea High | |
| North Crimea Basin | |
| Northeast Black Sea Shelf | |
| Black Sea Continental Slope | |
| Black Sea Continental Slope | |
| Azov-Kuban Basin | |
| Middle Caspian Basin | |
| Great Caucasus Foldbelt | |
| Rioni Basin | |
| South Caspian Basin | |
| Kura Basin | |
| Arctic Ocean Slope | |
| North Ustyurt Basin | |
| East Aral Basin | |
| Mangyshlak-Ustyurt Foldbelt | |
| Karabogaz-Karakum High | |
| Amu-Darya Basin | |
| Kopet-Dag Foldbelt | |
| Afghan-Tajik Basin | |
| Pamir High | |
| Tian Shan Foldbelt | |
| Fergana Basin | |
| Alay Basin | |
| Naryn Basin | |
| Issyk-Kul Basin | |
| West Ili Basin | |
| East Ili Basin | |
| Chu-Sarysu Basin | |
| Turgay Depression | |
| South Turgay Basin | |
| Central Kazakhstan Folded Region | |
| Alakol Basin | |
| Zaysan Basin | |
| Kuznetsk Basin | |
| North Minusa Basin | |
| South Minusa Basin | |
| West Siberian Basin | |
| Yenisey-Khatanga Basin | |
| Taimyr-Kara High | |
| Syr-Darya Basin | |
| East Aral Slope | |
| Anabar Basin | |
| Khatanga Saddle | |
| Anabar-Olenek High | |
| Tunguska Basin | |
| Turukhan-Norilsk Folded Zone | |
| Turukhan-Igarka Uplift | |
| Yenisey Ridge | |
| Baykit Arch | |
| Cis-Sayan Basin | |
| Angara-Lena Terrace | |
| Nepa-Botuoba Arch | |
| Cis-Patom Foredeep | |
| Kempendiay Region | |
| Lena-Vilyuy Basin | |
| Aldan Uplift | |
| Aldan Shield | |
| Upper Zeya Basin | |
| Laptev Shelf | |
| Altay-Sayan Folded Region | |
| Bureya-Dunbey Region | |
| Zeya-Bureya Basin | |
| Upper Bureya Basin | |
| Sikhote-Alin Folded Region | |
| Suifun Basin | |
| Khanka Basin | |
| Middle Amur Basin | |
| Baikal-Patom Folded Region | |
| Verkhoyan-Chukotka Folded Region | |
| Zyryanka Basin | |
| Moma Basin | |
| Ayon Basin | |
| Blagoveshchensk Basin | |
| Anzhu Uplift | |
| Novosibirsk Basin | |
| De Long High | |
| North Chukchi Basin | |
| Wrangel Basin | |
| Wrangel-Herald Uplift | |
| South Chukchi-Hope Basin | |
| Anadyr Basin | |
| Gangut High | |
| Khatyrka Basin | |
| Penzhina Basin | |
| Koryak-Kamchatka Foldbelt | |
| Kinkil Basin | |
| Talov Uplift | |
| Gizhigin Basin | |
| Koni-Tayganos Uplift | |
| North Okhotsk Group of Basins | |
| Tinro Basin | |
| West Kamchatka Basin | |
| Central Kamchatka Group of Basins | |
| East Kamchatka Uplift | |
| Olyutor Basin | |
| East Kamchatka Basin | |
| Kuril-Kamchatka Slope | |
| Onekotan Basin | |
| South Kuril Basin | |
| Central Okhotsk High | |
| South Okhotsk Basin | |
| Deryugin Basin | |
| North Sakhalin Basin | |
| East Sakhalin Uplift | |
| Terpeniya Bay Basin | |
| West Sakhalin Uplift | |
| Susunay Uplift | |
| Aniva Basin | |
| Tatar Strait Basin |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| b | boutique |
| p | priority |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| 0 | none given |
| 1 | Former Soviet Union |
| 2 | North Africa and the Middle East |
| 3 | Asia Pacific Region |
| 4 | Europe |
| 5 | North America |
| 6 | South America |
| 7 | Subsaharan Africa |
| 8 | South Asia |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gas | |
| Gas and condensate | |
| Gas and oil | |
| Gas, cond and oil | |
| Oil, | |
| Oil and gas | |
| Oil, gas, and cond. |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Murmansk | |
| Gdansk | |
| Wroclaw | |
| Brno | |
| Helsinki | |
| Tallinn | |
| Lodz | |
| Riga | |
| Warsaw | |
| Krakow | |
| Saint Petersburg | |
| Vilnius | |
| Arkhangelsk | |
| Lvov | |
| Minsk | |
| Kiev | |
| Kishinev | |
| Moskva | |
| Odessa | |
| Magadan | |
| Nizhniy Novgorod | |
| Kharkiv | |
| Dnipropetrovsk | |
| Donetsk | |
| Kazan | |
| Perm | |
| Rostov-na-Donu | |
| Samara | |
| Volgograd | |
| Yekaterinburg | |
| Ufa | |
| Chelyabinsk | |
| Erzurum | |
| TBilisi | |
| Omsk | |
| Yerevan | |
| Novosibirsk | |
| Tabriz | |
| Baky | |
| Khabarovsk | |
| Karaganda | |
| Irkutsk | |
| Tehran | |
| Qiqihar | |
| Harbin | |
| Vladivostok | |
| Ashkhabad | |
| Esfahan | |
| Toshkent | |
| Mashhad | |
| Almaty | |
| Frunze | |
| Samarkand | |
| Shiraz | |
| Dushanfe |
Digital Map Compilation - Feliks Persits
Geological Attribution - Feliks Persits, Douglas Steinshouer
Province Boundaries - Gregory Ulmishek
Province Boundaries Digital Compilation - Lee Osmonson
Oil and Gas Database - Tim Klett
303-236-3612 (voice)
303-236-0459 (FAX)
fpersits@usgs.gov
The data provides governments, geological community, consultants, and public with important information on the geological basis used to define provinces and oil and gas fields for U.S.G.S. Oil and Gas assessement of the World. The map is a visual summary of the data gathered for region 1.
Vsesoyuzniy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Geologicheskiy Institute (VSEGEI)., 1966, Geologic Map of The USSR, scale 1:7,500,000: Ministry of Geology of the USSR, Leningrad, USSR.
Petroconsultants International Data Corp., 1996, Petroleum exploration and production database: Petroconsultants International Data Corp., Houston, Texas.
ESRI, 1992, ArcWorld 1:3 million cartographic layers.: ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA.
Data sources used in this process:
Overall accuracy is based on accuracy of general geology coverage. Since all the attributes are of character type, only correctness of polygon labelling can be provided (see below).
1. Original geological maps are of 750 meter maximum accuracy
(0.1 mm on paper map of 1:7,500,000 scale)
2. Scanned images are of 200 dot/inch resolution
(0.1 mm on paper). That is why fuzzy tolerance for CLEAN
programm in ARC/INFO is set to 1500 m (two pixels).
3. Several steps are taken to vectorize scanned images.
The projection and coordinate system for the original map
are not given. Therefore it is necessary to georeference
the map to real world coordinates. This is done as follows:
3.1. The latitude/longitude graticule with cell size 4 * 6 degree
is projected to Equidistant Conic projection and then used to
create ARC/INFO point coverage. That point coverage is used
to create "to - from" links by ARC/INFO CONTROLPOINTS program.
3.2 A gray-scale scanned image of the original paper map is
transformed to Equidistant Conic projection by ARC/INFO GRIDWARP
program (polynomial of the second order) using the "to - from"
links created by CONTROLPOINTS program.
3.3 The scanned image from the second step is vectorized by
the method of extraction of linear features described by F.Persits,
1997, (USGS open-file report OF-97-713), and then corrected by
hands-on digitization.
3.4 A series of piecewise "rubbersheet" transformations are
applied to the final ARC/INFO coverage. The ARC/INFO coverages
that are used for transformation were ESRI's ArcWorld 1:3 million GIS
cartographic layers.
Overall position error is estimated with a randomly selected set
of locations on the ESRI coverages and comparing the same locations on
the final geology coverage (geo1). RMS error is 4.8 km (0.64 mm
of the original paper map) with maximum error about 12 km (1.6 mm
on original paper map).
All data are found to be topologically correct. The generalizations of original geological map (VSEGEI) were carried out: (1) Several geological age subdivisions on the original (VSEGEI) 1:7,500,000 geological map are combined into single units (for example, all Cretaceous are combined into one unit); and (2) all the Precambrian subdivisions are combined into one unit. The version of Geologic Province Boundaries is correct as of April 1998.
Since the data set is collection of ARC/INFO coverages, topological consistency is supported. The same fuzzy tolerance is maintained through all processing steps (1500). Based on fuzzy tolerance value all undershoots and overshoots are detected and deleted. A comparison between color plot and original paper map was carried out by visual comparison. Color plots in 1:7,500,000 scale were superimposed on each of corresponding original map sheets. All errors detected in attributes were corrected.
Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?
- Access_Constraints:
- The oil and gas field centerpoints data set are part of a proprietary database and field names or any other data associated with the field centerpoints can not be attributed or displayed. Furthermore, portions of this database covering coastline and country boundaries contain intellectual property of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), and are used with permission. End users are permitted to use these data sets for their own internal use, including derivative work, but are prohibited from using and redistributing these data individually or in a derivative work to third parties. Please refer to the "ATTACHMENT B" file (attach_b.txt) on this CD-ROM for further information on ESRI's license agreement. ESRI and MapObjects are registerd trademarks in the United States and are either trademarks or registered trademarks in all other countries where they are used, and ArcExplorer is a trademark of Environmental Systems Research, Inc.
- Use_Constraints:
- Since the oil and gas field centerpoints data set is part of a proprietary database, permission must be obtained from Petroconsultants International Data Corp. prior to further use of the data. In addition, portions of this database covering the coastline and country boundaries contain intellectual property of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), and are used herein with permission. End users are permitted to use these data sets for their own internal use, including any derivative work, but are prohibited from using and redistributing these data sets individually or in a derivative work to third parties. Please refer the "ATTACHMENT B" file on this CD-ROM for more comprehensive information concerning ESRI's license agreement. ESRI and MapObjects are registerd trademarks in the United States and are either trademarks or registered trademarks in all other countries where they are used, and ArcExplorer is a trademark of Environmental Systems Research, Inc.
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infoservices@usgs.gov
USGS Open-File Report 97-470E
Although these data have been processed on computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
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