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Groundbreaking Gas Hydrate Research
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Article Thumbnail Image  A new project in Japan is helping scientists make significant progress in studying gas hydrates as a potential source for natural gas production. This research advances understanding of the global distribution of gas hydrates as well as ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013  Type: Field Report
Hydraulic Fracturing ("Fracking") FAQs
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Article Thumbnail Image   USGS Releases new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Hydraulic Fracturing ("Fracking").  A new Hydraulic Fracturing Website and Multimedia Gallery is also now online.
Thursday, January 10, 2013  Type: Site News
Stratigraphic Cross Section of Measured Sections and Drill Holes of the Neslen Formation and Adjacent Formations, Book Cliffs Area, Colorado and Utah
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Article Thumbnail Image This study updates a stratigraphic cross section published as plate 2 in USGS Digital Data Series 69-G. The datum is a marine/tidal ravinement surface within the Cozzette Sandstone Member of the Iles Formation and the Thompson Canyon Sandstone and Sulphur Canyon Sandstone Beds of the Neslen Formatio...
Thursday, January 03, 2013  Type: Publication
Geophysical and Lithologic Well Logs in the Piceance Basin
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Article Thumbnail Image 2,263 scanned logs of various types including gamma ray, sonic, neutron, caliper, and lithologic descriptions are available for 621 different wells in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado. Logged intervals generally focus on the Green River Formation which contains large amounts of oil shale in th...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013  Type: Site News
Geologic models and evaluation of undiscovered conventional and continuous oil and gas resources—Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk, U.S. Gulf Coast
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Article Thumbnail Image The Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk forms a low-permeability, onshore Gulf of Mexico reservoir that produces oil and gas from major fractures oriented parallel to the underlying Lower Cretaceous shelf edge. Horizontal drilling links these fracture systems to create an interconnected network that...
Thursday, December 20, 2012  Type: Publication
Vitrinite Reflectance Data for Cretaceous Marine Shales and Coals in the Bighorn Basin, North-Central Wyoming and South-Central Montana
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Article Thumbnail Image The Bighorn Basin is a large Laramide (Late Cretaceous through Eocene) structural and sedimentary basin that encompasses about 10,400 square miles in north-central Wyoming and south-central Montana. The purpose of this report is to present new vitrinite reflectance data collected from Cretaceous...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012  Type: Publication
Newly Available Stratigraphic Sections in Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary rocks in and between the Uinta and Piceance Basins of Utah and Colorado
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Article Thumbnail Image Scanned copies of three legacy USGS publications with detailed stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary rocks in eastern Utah and western Colorado are now available online. MF 1050: five measured sections, in the Mesa Verde Group and Wasatch Formation, in the vicinity of De Beque Colorado ...
Monday, December 17, 2012  Type: Technical Announcement
Interpretation of Na–Cl–Br Systematics in Sedimentary Basin Brines: Comparison of Concentration, Element Ratio, and Isometric Log-ratio Approaches
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Article Thumbnail Image Mathematicians and geochemists have long realized that compositional data intrinsically exhibit a structure prone to spurious and induced correlations. This paper demonstrates, using the Na–Cl–Br system, that these mathematical problems are exacerbated in the study of sedimentary basin brines by...
Thursday, December 13, 2012  Type: Outside Publication
Thermal Maturity Map of Devonian Shale in the Illinois, Michigan, and Appalachian Basins of North America
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Article Thumbnail Image Much of the oil and gas in the Illinois, Michigan, and Appalachian basins of eastern North America is thought to be derived from Devonian shale that is within these basins. As the Devonian strata were buried by younger sediments, the Devonian shale was subjected to great temperature and pressure...
Monday, December 03, 2012  Type: Publication
Remaining Recoverable Petroleum in Giant Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin, Southern California
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Article Thumbnail Image Using a probabilistic geology-based methodology, a team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists recently assessed the remaining recoverable oil in 10 oil fields of the Los Angeles Basin in southern California. The results of the assessment suggest that between 3.2 and 5.6 billion barrels...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012  Type: Publication
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