Open-File Report 98-788
AbstractThis report describes and provides a digital data file of selected bulk properties of subsurface rocks sampled in and around Los Angeles basin, California. Selected properties include measured dry bulk density (range 0.78 to 3.01 g/cm3), measured or estimated grain (matrix) density, calculated water saturated bulk density (range 1.47 to 3.01 g/cm3), calculated total porosity (range 0 to 69 porosity percent), geologic age, and lithology. Most of the rocks are conventional core samples taken from wells drilled by the petroleum industry. A small percentage of the core samples are from shallow borings. Rocks studied range in age from pre-Cambrian (?) to Recent and include sedimentary (98.8%), and volcanic, metamorphic and intrusive (1.2%) samples. Core samples studied were taken from measured drillhole depths that range from 35 to 20,234 ft (11 to 6,167 m). Version 1.0 of the data base (dated June 1998) contains information for 7378 samples from 234 wells, including two redrilled wells. This report/data base can be accessed on U. S. Geological Survey servers at http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of98-788. Periodic additions to the on-line data base will be provided as new data is gathered. |
First posted August 12, 2002
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Beyer, L. A., McCulloh, T. H., 1998, Bulk Densities and Porosities of Cenozoic and Cretaceous Basin-Filling Strata and Cretaceous and Older Basement Rocks, Los Angeles Basin, California, Determined from Measurements of Core Samples: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-788, 197 pp., http://pub.usgs.gov/of/1998/0788/.
Introduction
Previous work
Well descriptions and locations
Summary of data base
Bulk density and porosity equations
Methods
Reliability of measurements
Industrial data
Stratigraphic designations and age assignments
Lithologic descriptors
Estimates of overburden removed
Acknowledgements
References