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USGS Gulf Coast Petroleum Systems, and National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Projects-Eagle Ford Group and Associated Cenomanian-Turonian Strata Assessment Unit Boundaries and Assessment Input Data Forms

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Eagle Ford group and Associated Cenomanian-Turonian Strata, Texas Gulf Coast. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies. The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary. In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary. This data release also contains machine readable excel data for assessment input data and and human readable assessment input forms and area allocation tables. Documentation for these data files is included (Input Forms Column Descriptions.xlsx). Methodology of assessments are documented in USGS Data Series 547 for continuous assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/547) and USGS DDS69-D, Chapter 21 for conventional assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/REPORTS/69_D_CH_21.pdf).

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Author(s) Katherine J Whidden orcid
Publication Date 2019-08-21
Beginning Date of Data 2018
Ending Date of Data 2018
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KAMXET
Citation Whidden, K.J., 2019, USGS Gulf Coast Petroleum Systems, and National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Projects-Eagle Ford Group and Associated Cenomanian-Turonian Strata Assessment Unit Boundaries and Assessment Input Data Forms: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KAMXET.
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Metadata Date 2020-08-19
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