Drummer, Thomas D.
199808
Generalized Geology of the Former Soviet Union (geo1ec)
Downloadable GIS Data
Reston,VA
U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team
U.S. Geological Survey
Persits, F.M., Ulmishek, G.R., and Steinshouer, D.W.
1998
Map showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields and Geological Provinces of the Former Soviet Union
Digital Maps
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
OFR-97-470-E
Denver, Colorado, USA
U.S. Geological Survey
Open File Report 97-470E is one of a series of continental-scale geologic maps of the world being published on CD-ROM by the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-470/OF97-470E/
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GUL0PQ
The data set outlines and describes the general geologic age and type of bedrock of the Former Soviet Union and selected adjacent areas. It also includes shoreline and inland water bodies.
Although a geologic map displays the geographic distribution of the different geologic units and rock types for numerous purposes, this data set is compiled primarily for the World Energy Project as part of a required strategic base for assessing the petroleum potential of this region. For this purpose, the map basically provides an outline of the general geographic distribution of both known or hypothetical petroleum-potential formations and units, i.e., sedimentary rocks and basins, and areas containing igneous and metamorphic rocks which have little or no potential. The map is also compiled, in part, to provide a basis for outlining the geographic and petroleum provinces. This basic geologic data set, combined with others, such as tectonic and burial histories, distribution of known oil and gas fields, distribution and quality of reservoir rocks, organic geochemistry, etc., ultimately defines the basis for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Former Soviet Union.
1998
publication date
None planned
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138.20580296
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Oil
Gas
Geology
Former Soviet Union
Russia
Geologic Province
Geologic map
Gateway to the Earth Thesaurus
Oil shale resources
Oil sand resources
Natural gas resources
Economic geology
ArcIMS Metadata Server Theme Codes Thesaurus
geoscientificInformation
environment
USGS Energy Program Themes Thesaurus
Earth Science
Natural Resources
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Geology
Oil
Natural Gas
Petroleum
Resource Assessment
EnergyResourceActivities
oilgas
wep
worldgeologicmaps
fsu
None
Former Soviet Union
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Byelarus
Commonwealth of Independant States
Estonia
Former Soviet Union
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
USGS Energy Program Petroleum Assessment Units
Admiralty Arch, Province 1061
Afghan-Tajik Basin, Province 1156
Alakol Basin, Province 1169
Alay Basin, Province 1160
Aldan Shield, Province 1216
Aldan Uplift, Province 1215
Altay-Sayan Folded Region, Province 1219
Amu-Darya Basin, Province 1154
Anabar Basin, Province 1200
Anabar-Olenek High, Province 1202
Anadyr Basin, Province 1300
Angara-Lena Terrace, Province 1209
Aniva Basin, Province 1327
Anzhu Uplift, Province 1255
Arctic Ocean Slope, Province 1117
Ayon Basin, Province 1253
Azov-Kuban Basin, Province 1108
Baikal-Patom Folded Region, Province 1230
Baykit Arch, Province 1207
Belorussian-Voronezh High, Province 1004
Black Sea Continental Slope, Province 1107
Black Sea Deep-Water Basin, Province 1102
Blagoveshchensk Basin, Province 1254
Bureya-Dunbey Region, Province 1220
Central Kamchatka Group of Basins, Province 1312
Central Kara High, Province 1070
Central Kazakhstan Folded Region, Province 1168
Central Okhotsk High, Province 1319
Chu-Sarysu Basin, Province 1165
Cis-Patom Foredeep, Province 1211
Cis-Sayan Basin, Province 1208
Crimea High, Province 1104
De Long High, Province 1257
Deryugin Basin, Province 1321
Dnieper-Donets Basin, Province 1009
Dobrogea Foreland, Province 1103
Donbass Foldbelt, Province 1014
East Aral Basin, Province 1151
East Aral Slope, Province 1178
East Ili Basin, Province 1164
East Kamchatka Basin, Province 1315
East Kamchatka Uplift, Province 1313
East Sakhalin Uplift, Province 1323
Fergana Basin, Province 1159
Gangut High, Province 1301
Gizhigin Basin, Province 1307
Great Caucasus Foldbelt, Province 1110
Grumant Uplift, Province 1064
Issyk-Kul Basin, Province 1162
Karabogaz-Karakum High, Province 1153
Kempendiay Region, Province 1212
Khanka Basin, Province 1226
Khatanga Saddle, Province 1201
Khatyrka Basin, Province 1302
Kinkil Basin, Province 1305
Kola Monocline-Finnmark Platform, Province 1051
Koni-Tayganos Uplift, Province 1308
Kopet-Dag Foldbelt, Province 1155
Koryak-Kamchatka Foldbelt, Province 1304
Kotelnich Arch, Province 1005
Kura Basin, Province 1113
Kuril-Kamchatka Slope, Province 1316
Kuznetsk Basin, Province 1171
Laptev Shelf, Province 1218
Lena-Vilyuy Basin, Province 1214
Ludlov Saddle, Province 1059
Mangyshlak-Ustyurt Foldbelt, Province 1152
Mezen Basin, Province 1006
Middle Amur Basin, Province 1227
Middle Caspian Basin, Province 1109
Moma Basin, Province 1252
Moscow Basin, Province 1003
Mugodzhary-South Emba, Province 1018
Naryn Basin, Province 1161
Nepa-Botuoba Arch, Province 1210
North Barents Basin, Province 1060
North Caspian Basin, Province 1016
North Chukchi Basin, Province 1258
North Crimea Basin, Province 1105
North Minusa Basin, Province 1172
North Novaya Zemlya Basin, Province 1065
North Okhotsk Group of Basins, Province 1309
North Sakhalin Basin, Province 1322
North Ustyurt Basin, Province 1150
Northeast Black Sea Shelf, Province 1106
Novaya Zemlya Monocline, Province 1062
Novosibirsk Basin, Province 1256
Olyutor Basin, Province 1314
Onekotan Basin, Province 1317
Pamir High, Province 1157
Penzhina Basin, Province 1303
Poles Saddle, Province 1012
Pripyat Basin, Province 1010
Rioni Basin, Province 1111
Russian Craton Margin, Province 1011
Schmidt Basin, Province 1071
Severnaya Zemlya High, Province 1072
Sikhote-Alin Folded Region, Province 1224
South Barents Basin, Province 1050
South Caspian Basin, Province 1112
South Chukchi-Hope Basin, Province 1261
South Kuril Basin, Province 1318
South Minusa Basin, Province 1173
South Okhotsk Basin, Province 1320
South Turgay Basin, Province 1167
St. Anna Basin, Province 1066
Suifun Basin, Province 1225
Susunay Uplift, Province 1326
Syr-Darya Basin, Province 1177
Taimyr-Kara High, Province 1176
Talov Uplift, Province 1306
Tatar Strait Basin, Province 1328
Terpeniya Bay Basin, Province 1324
Tian Shan Foldbelt, Province 1158
Timan High, Province 1007
Timan-Pechora Basin, Province 1008
Tinro Basin, Province 1310
Tunguska Basin, Province 1203
Turgay Depression, Province 1166
Turukhan-Igarka Uplift, Province 1205
Turukhan-Norilsk Folded Zone, Province 1204
Uedineniya Basin, Province 1069
Ukrainian Shield, Province 1013
Upper Bureya Basin, Province 1223
Upper Zeya Basin, Province 1217
Ural-Novaya Zemlya Foldbelt, Province 1017
Ushakov High, Province 1068
Verkhoyan-Chukotka Folded Region, Province 1250
Vize High, Province 1067
Volga-Ural Region, Province 1015
West Ili Basin, Province 1163
West Kamchatka Basin, Province 1311
West Sakhalin Uplift, Province 1325
West Siberian Basin, Province 1174
Wrangel Basin, Province 1259
Wrangel-Herald Uplift, Province 1260
Yenisey Ridge, Province 1206
Yenisey-Khatanga Basin, Province 1175
Zaysan Basin, Province 1170
Zeya-Bureya Basin, Province 1222
Zyryanka Basin, Province 1251
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:60ad3d53d34e4043c850f275
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JPEG
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
Metadata - Feliks Persits, B.S. Larson, Laura R.H. Biewick
None
Unclassified
None
SunOS, 5.6, sun4u UNIX, ARC/INFO version 7.1.2
Overall accuracy is based on accuracy of general geology coverage. Since all the attributes are of character type, only correctness of polygon labeling can be provided (see below).
Standard ARC/INFO attributes accuracy in Feature Attributes Tables like AREA, PERIMETER, etc. depend on horizontal positional accuracy. All the additional attributes are character type.
All the Attributes besides standard ARC/INFO atttibutes are of character type. Standard verification of attributes reliability has been done by ARC/INFO EDITPLOT program to find polygons without assigned character value or with more than one value.
Polygon topology present.
N/A
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).
4800 meters
see above section - Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report.
Vsesoyuzniy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Geologicheskiy Institute (VSEGEI)
1966
Geologic Map of The USSR, scale 1:7,500,000
1966
map
Leningrad, USSR
Ministry of Geology of the USSR
7500000
Paper
1966
publication date
Paper Geologic Map
The two paper map sheets are used as the sources for creation of the corresponding ARC/INFO coverages.
Procedures_Used:
Scanning original paper maps on large format Anatech Eagle scanner. There is one copy for each of two sheets - gray scale (after original map scanning). Images are in TIFF format at 200 dot/inch resolution. The images then transformed to Equidistant Conic Projection by ARC/INFO GRIDWARP program (polynomial of the second order). The "from-to" links for transformation are created by ARC/INFO CONTROLPOINTS program where latitude/longitude grid (point coverage) with cell size 6X4 degrees is used as a reference. Georeferenced gray scale images from the first step are vectorized by the method of extraction linear features described by F. Persits, 1997, (USGS open-file report OF-97-713), and then corrected by hands-on digitizing. After the vectorizing is completed, a series of piecewise "rubbersheet" transformations are applied to the ARC/INFO coverages created The ARC/INFO coverages used as reference for transformation are ESRI's ArcWorld 1:3 million GIS cartographic layers (RIV3M, CTRY3M). To perform rubber transformation the combination of ARC/INFO ARCEDIT (add links) and ADJUST programs are applied. There are a number of such transformations for every limited area on original coverage. The geology attribute data are assigned using standardized geologic symbols for the World Energy project. Although all polygons from the source maps are included in the data, geology was simplified from its original version, and attributed only by overall age; no technical division was made of geologic ages into upper, lower, early, late, etc., nor were geologic units differentiated within any particular geologic age or region as they appear on the source maps. This is particularily true for Precambrian units. ESRI's ArcInfo GIS system is used for cleaning and attributing. Topology is created. Some attributes are combined and some polygons generalized.
Reviews_Applied_to_Data:
Attributes and contacts are verified via visual editing and review. A minimum of two reviewers examine and compare digital versions versus orignal material. 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.
Other_References_Cited:
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
Scanned images 199710 Georeference gray-scale images
Vector
Point
11296
String
25847
GT-polygon composed of chains
11297
Equidistant Conic
58.5
100.0
60.0
0
0
coordinate pair
1
1
meters
Krasovsky
6378245
0.996647681
Surficial geology
the geology of each polygon by stratigraphic unit, age, and/or lithology.
U.S. Geological Survey
glg
The abbreviated geologic age of the surficial rock formation.
U.S. Geological Survey
Q, QT, N, NPg, Pg, PgK, K, KJ, J, JTr, Tr, Pz, P, TrP, PC, C, CD, D, DS, S, SO, O, OCm, Cm, pC, CmPt, Pt, Z, Y, X, A, Qv, Ti, Mi, Pi, PtAi, ii, oth, Ice, H2O, Sea
Range of geologic age values taken from original map legend:
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
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