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, outcrop, Laney Member, Tipton Member
Place:
United States, Green River Basin, WY, Wyoming, Washakie Basin
Description
Abstract
The Laney Member and the Tipton Member of the Eocene Green River Formation outcrops were needed to limit resource calculations in the Green River and Washakie Basins, southwestern Wyoming as part of a National Oil Shale Assessment.
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, CO
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: laney_ocrp
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: Shapefile
Size of the data: 0.061 MB
Data transfer size: 0.061 MB
How to decompress the file: unzip
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
Constraints on accessing and using the data
Access constraints:
none
Use constraints:
This dataset is appropriate for regional-scale analysis at scales of 1:500,000 or less.
Details about this document
Contents last updated: 20110321
at time 10315600
Who completed this document
Tracey J. Mercier
U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Science Center
mailing and physical address:
U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Denver Federal Center
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: USA_Contiguous_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:
-110.720666
East:
-107.743547
North:
42.588490
South:
40.988644
In projected or local coordinates
Left: -140753.298349
Right: 102774.172014
Top: 396562.702665
Bottom: 220939.152871
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Lineage
FGDC lineage
Process step 1
Process description: The original linework was downloaded and loaded in ArcGIS v. 9.2. Gaps in coverage in limited areas were edited by hand by staff geologists.
Process software and version: ArcGIS 9.2
Process date: 2009
Who did this process
Tracey J. Mercier
U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Science Center
mailing and physical address:
U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Denver Federal Center
Denver, Colorado 80225
USA
303 236 5088 (voice)
303 236 0459 (fax)
tmercier@usgs.gov
Sources
Source 1:
The digital geologic map of Wyoming in ARC/INFO format
Media: online
Scale denominator: 1:500,000
Contribution: outcrop lines
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Spatial data quality
Horizontal positional accuracy
All polyline files have been peer-reviewed and are found to be geologically reasonable and accurate.
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Spatial data description
Vector data information
ESRI description
laney_ocrp
ESRI feature type: Simple
Geometry type: Polyline
Topology: FALSE
Feature count: 2
Spatial Index: FALSE
Linear referencing: FALSE
SDTS description
Feature class: SDTS feature type, feature count
laney_ocrp:
String, 2