Fischer Assays of Oil-Shale Drill Cores and Rotary Cuttings from the Greater Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming





Open-File Report 2008–1152

U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey




Fischer Assays of Oil-Shale Drill Cores and Rotary Cuttings from the Greater Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming


By U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team









Open-File Report 2008–1152










U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey

CD–ROM Contents
The CD-ROM is organized as follows: 
Openfirst.doc—Main contents.
/Read First.doc—This document.
Readme.doc—An introduction document with links to Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 documents and WY_Borehole_Info and WY_Oil_Shale_Assays EXCEL spreadsheets.
/Assays folder—Contains the original Fischer assay data in text format.
/Chapter 1 folder—Contains the Chapter 1 document describing the Fischer assay data and the Images folder.
      /Images folder—Contains images of the original laboratory reports.
/Chapter 2 folder—Contains the Chapter 2 documents describing oil yield histograms and the Grapher and Histograms folders.
      /Grapher folder—Contains original Grapher files.
/grapher_pdf folder— Contains original Grapher files in PDF format.
/Histograms folder—Contains oil yield histograms in PDF format
/Spatial folder—Contain spatial data for 906 holes in the Greater Green River Basin.
/Spreadsheets folder— Contains the WY_Borehole_Info and WY_Oil_Shale_Assays EXCEL spreadsheets and the WY_Oil_Shale_Assays database.  The spreadsheets are also included in text format.