Gulf Coast Basins

Province Code: 5047

The USGS has completed numerous assessments of undiscovered oil and gas of the southern US Gulf Coast region. This region includes south-eastern Texas, Louisiana, Missisipi, Alabama and western Florida. The following highlights gulf coast assessment publications:

• 1995 Assessment of Western Gulf and East Texas Basin & Louisiana-Mississippi Salt Basins
• 2002 Cotton Valley Group and Travis Peak-Hosston Formations (Cotton Valley factsheet, Travis-Pk factsheet, geologic report)
• 2007 Tuscaloosa and Woodbine Formations (factsheet)
• 2003 Navarro and Taylor Groups (factsheet, geologic report)
• 2007 Tertiary Strata (factsheet)
• 2007 Cretaceous-Tertiary Coal Beds (factsheet)
• 2010 Jurassic and Cretaceous Strata (factsheet)
• 2011 Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk and Tokio and Eutaw Formations (factsheet)
• 2012 Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group (factsheet)

Use the 'data' tab below to access downlodable data from these publications.