Keywords
Theme:
geoscientificInformation
Theme:
Oil shale resources, Economic geology
Theme:
Energy resources, Oil shale, Oil, Resource assessment, Earth science, Natural resources, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Geology, Eocene Green River Formation
Place:
United States, Green River Basin, WY, Wyoming, Washakie Basin
Description
Abstract
This file contains points that describe locations of oil shale core holes, rotary holes, and surface sections in the state of Wyoming and is available as an ESRI shapefile, Google Earth KMZ file, and ASCII text file.
Purpose
Increasing energy demand, changing economics, new technology, and geopolitical issues have spurred renewed interest in other energy alternatives such as oil shale, heavy oil, and tar sands. The USGS Energy Resources Program has previously conducted extensive field and geologic research on these commodities and is initiating an effort to inventory and make these important legacy information assets accessible to the public, land managers, and other decision-makers. In addition, the Energy Program is scoping the geologic, technical, economic, and environmental factors controlling the production and use of these energy sources and will provide recommendations for future research in order to meet the energy needs of the United States.
Links to graphics describing the data
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Status of the data
Complete
Data update frequency:
As needed
Time period for which the data is relevant
Date and time:
2011
Description:
publication date
Publication Information
Who created the data: U.S. Geological Survey, Tracey J. Mercier
Date and time:
2011
Publisher and place:
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
Series name: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series
Series issue: DDS-69-DD
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Data storage and access information
File name: GreenRiverWashakie_Boreholes
Type of data: Downloadable GIS data
Location of the data:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-dd/
Data processing environment: Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7600) ; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3500
Accessing the data
Data format: ESRI shapefile
Size of the data: 0.037 MB
Data transfer size: 0.037 MB
Network location:
http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/oil_shale/spatial/WY/spatial.zip
Access instructions: The URL above links to a zipped file of spatial data used to calculate oil shale resources for the Green River and Washakie Basins, southwestern Wyoming. The file contains all spatial data for DDS-69-DD.
Available media: CD-ROM
Accessing the data
Data format: Google Earth KMZ
Network location:
http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/oil_shale/spatial/shape/GreenRiverWashakie_Boreholes.zip
Available media: CD-ROM
Constraints on accessing and using the data
Access constraints:
none
Use constraints:
This dataset is appropriate for regional-scale analysis. Caution should be used as there may be inherent errors in the locations of these legacy data.
Details about this document
Contents last updated: 20110321
at time 13024000
Who completed this document
Tracey J. Mercier
U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Science Center
mailing and physical address:
Denver, Colorado 80225
USA
303 236 5088 (voice)
303 236 0459 (fax)
datamgt@usgs.gov
Contact Instructions:
For inquiries regarding this document, please include the metadata contact person's name, dataset name, and publication series and number.
Standards used to create this document
Standard name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Standard version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Time convention used in this document: local time
Metadata profiles defining additonal information
ESRI Metadata Profile: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Horizontal coordinate system
Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1927_Lambert_Conformal_Conic
Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1927
Details
Map Projection Name: Lambert Conformal Conic
Standard Parallel: 33.000000
Standard Parallel: 45.000000
Longitude of Central Meridian: -109.000000
Latitude of Projection Origin: 39.000000
False Easting: 0.000000
False Northing: 0.000000
Planar Coordinate Information
Planar Distance Units: meters
Coordinate Encoding Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate Representation
Abscissa Resolution: 0.000000
Ordinate Resolution: 0.000000
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid Name: Clarke 1866
Semi-major Axis: 6378206.400000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 294.978698
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Bounding coordinates
Horizontal
In decimal degrees
West:
-110.731051
East:
-107.180134
North:
42.723176
South:
40.578943
In projected or local coordinates
Left: -141318.963772
Right: 148571.524561
Top: 411471.864135
Bottom: 175811.178716
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Lineage
FGDC lineage
Process step 1
Process description: The majority of the locations were digitized in ArcGIS v. 9.1 based on footage measurements north, south, east, and west of PLSS section corners contained in the original spreadsheet. A custom tool that combined the distance and sketch tools in ArcEditor was used to measure and place points. Source PLSS files used for spotting locations were obtained from BLM and projected to North American Datum 27 (NAD27). Where footage measurements were not available, the location was digitized in the center of the 1/4-1/4 section, 1/4 section, or the center of the section. In short, the best location data available in the original database was used.
Process software and version: ArcGIS 9.2
Process date: 2007
Who did this process
Tracey J. Mercier
U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Science Center
mailing and physical address:
Denver, Colorado 80225
USA
303 236 5088 (voice)
303 236 0459 (fax)
tmercier@usgs.gov
Sources
Source 1:
WY_Borehole_Info.xls
Media: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Contribution: Locations of core holes and rotary holes, including latitude & longitude coordinates, township, range, section(PLSS), and footage measurements from section corners.
Currentness of this source
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Spatial data quality
Horizontal positional accuracy
All point locations have been peer-reviewed and are found to be accurate.
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Spatial data description
Vector data information
ESRI description
GreenRiverWashakie_Boreholes
ESRI feature type: Simple
Geometry type: Point
Topology: FALSE
Feature count: 1367
Spatial Index: FALSE
Linear referencing: FALSE
SDTS description
Feature class: SDTS feature type, feature count
GreenRiverWashakie_Boreholes:
Entity point, 1367
Details for GreenRiverWashakie_Boreholes
Type of object: Feature Class
Number of records: 1367
Description
point attribute table
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attributes
FID
Alias: FID
Data type: OID
Width: 4
Precision: 0
Scale: 0
Definition: Internal feature number.
Definition Source: ESRI
Shape
Alias: Shape
Data type: Geometry
Width: 0
Precision: 0
Scale: 0
Definition: Feature geometry.
Definition Source: ESRI
OBJECTID
Alias: OBJECTID
Data type: Number
Width: 9
USGSID
Alias: USGSID
Data type: String
Width: 10
Definition: Unique ID assigned by USGS, (W)Wyoming, (R)Rotary hole, (S)Surface section, (X)Surface section by R. Johnson, USGS
X
Alias: X
Data type: Float
Width: 19
Number of decimals: 11
Definition: Longitude value(NAD27), decimal degrees
Y
Alias: Y
Data type: Float
Width: 19
Number of decimals: 11
Definition: Latitude value(NAD27), decimal degrees