Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Eurasia Basin Province, 2008
Thomas E. Moore, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2019, Professional Paper 1824-DD
The Eurasia Basin Petroleum Province comprises the younger, eastern half of the Arctic Ocean, including the Eurasia Basin and the outboard part of the continental margin of northern Europe in the Barents and Kara Seas. The province includes the slope and rise sedimentary prism of the Lena Delta, the north-facing...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Vilkitskii Basin Province, 2008
Kenneth J. Bird, David W. Houseknecht, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2019, Professional Paper 1824-Z
The Vilkitskii Basin is a separate petroleum province that lies beneath the continental shelf of the East Siberian Sea east of the New Siberian Islands and northwest of Wrangel Island. It is a basin known only on the basis of gravity data and three seismic profiles. A small, southern part...
The Las Vegas Formation
Kathleen B. Springer, Jeffrey S. Pigati, Craig R. Manker, Shannon A. Mahan
2018, Professional Paper 1839
The Las Vegas Formation was established in 1965 to designate the distinctive light-colored, fine-grained, fossil-bearing sedimentary deposits exposed in and around the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. In a coeval designation, the sediments were subdivided into informal units with stratigraphic and chronologic frameworks that have persisted in the literature. Use of...
U-Pb geochronology and tectonic implications of a Silurian ash in the Farewell Terrane, Alaska
Dwight Bradley, Julie A. Dumoulin, Dan B. Bradley
Julie A. Dumoulin, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1814-F
The Farewell terrane is an exotic continental fragment in interior Alaska that during the early Paleozoic was the site of a passive margin. We report a 238U/206Pb zircon age of 432.9±3.0 Ma from a Farewell terrane ash in Mt. McKinley quadrangle, Alaska. This age overlaps with prominent detrital zircon age...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the East Siberian Sea Basin Province, 2008
Kenneth J. Bird, David W. Houseknecht, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-Y
The East Siberian Sea Basin, which lies beneath the continental shelf east of the New Siberian Islands, is one of the better-known basins in a series of postorogenic (successor) basins in the East Siberian-Chukchi Sea region because of a reconnaissance network of seismic-reflection profiles and outcrops on nearby islands. In...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Long Strait Basin Province, 2008
Kenneth Bird, David W. Houseknecht, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-AA
The Long Strait Basin is both a stand alone petroleum province and an assessment unit (AU) that lies offshore in the East Siberian Sea north of Chukotka and south of Wrangel Island. This basin is known only on the basis of gravity data and a single proprietary seismic line. In...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Northern West Siberian Mesozoic Composite Total Petroleum System of the West Siberian Basin Province, Russia, 2008
Christopher J. Schenk
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-Q
The West Siberian Basin Province is one of the largest sedimentary basins in the world, with an area of 2.6 million square kilometers, and the basin ranks first in the world with more than 400 billion barrels of oil-equivalent discovered petroleum. For the 2008 Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal, the U.S....
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Tunguska Basin Province, 2008
Craig J. Wandrey, Timothy R. Klett
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-U
The U.S. Geological Survey has evaluated the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Tunguska Basin Province as part of the Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (CARA). The Tunguska Basin Province includes an area of approximately 904,000 km2; less than half the area of the province lies north...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Lena-Anabar Basin Province, 2008
Timothy R. Klett, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-T
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Lena-Anabar Basin Province as part of its Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal program. The province is in the Russian High Arctic and is located between the Laptev Sea and the Siberian craton. Three assessment units...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Mezen’ Basin Province, 2008
Timothy R. Klett, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-M
The Mezen’ Basin Province is situated along the White and Barents Seas in the northeastern part of the Russian Federation. Only a small area of the province, part of one graben, extends slightly north of the Arctic Circle onto the Kanin-Kola monocline, where it converges with the Timan-Varanger deformed belt...
Groundwater availability of the Williston Basin, United States and Canada
Andrew J. Long, Joanna N. Thamke, Kyle W. Davis, Timothy T. Bartos
2018, Professional Paper 1841
Executive SummaryThe Williston Basin of the Northern Great Plains is a sedimentary basin—a geologic bowl-like structure filled with layered sedimentary rocks dating as far back as the Paleozoic age. The basin, which is nationally important for the production of energy resources, spans Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota in...
Geochemistry of groundwater in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer, Idaho National Laboratory and vicinity, eastern Idaho
Gordon W. Rattray
2018, Professional Paper 1837-A
Nuclear research activities at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in eastern Idaho produced radiochemical and chemical wastes that were discharged to the subsurface, resulting in detectable concentrations of some waste constituents in the eastern Snake River Plain (ESRP) aquifer. These waste constituents may pose risks...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Jan Mayen Microcontinent Province, 2008
Thomas E. Moore, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, D. L. Gautier, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1824-L
The Jan Mayen Microcontinent encompasses a rectangular, mostly submarine fragment of continental crust that lies north of Iceland in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. These continental rocks were rifted away from the eastern margin of Greenland as a consequence of a westward jump of spreading centers from...
Pleistocene glaciation of the Jackson Hole area, Wyoming
Kenneth L. Pierce, Joseph M. Licciardi, John M. Good, Cheryl Jaworowski
2018, Professional Paper 1835
Pleistocene glaciations and late Cenozoic offset on the Teton fault have played central roles in shaping the scenic landscapes of the Teton Range and Jackson Hole area in Wyoming. The Teton Range harbored a system of mountain-valley glaciers that produced the striking geomorphic features in these mountains. However, the comparatively...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the West Greenland-East Canada Province, 2008
Christopher J. Schenk
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1824-J
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the West Greenland-East Canada Province as part of the USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal program. The province lies in the offshore area between western Greenland and eastern Canada and includes Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, Lancaster...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Hope Basin Province, 2008
Kenneth J. Bird, David W. Houseknecht, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1824-D
The Hope Basin, an independent petroleum province that lies mostly offshore in the southern Chukchi Sea north of the Chukotka and Seward Peninsulas and south of Wrangel Island, the Herald Arch, and the Lisburne Peninsula, is the largest in a series of postorogenic (successor) basins in the East Siberian-Chukchi Sea...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Chukchi Borderland Province, 2008
Kenneth J. Bird, David W. Houseknecht
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1824-C
The Chukchi Borderland is both a stand-alone petroleum province and assessment unit (AU) that lies north of the Chukchi Sea. It is a bathymetrically high-standing block of continental crust that was probably rifted from the Canadian continental margin. The sum of our knowledge of this province is based upon geophysical...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Yukon Flats Basin Province, 2008
Kenneth J. Bird, Richard G. Stanley
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1824-F
The hydrocarbon potential of the Yukon Flats Basin Province in Central Alaska was assessed in 2004 as part of an update to the National Oil and Gas Assessment. Three assessment units (AUs) were identified and assessed using a methodology somewhat different than that of the 2008 Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (CARA)....
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Laptev Sea Shelf Province, 2008
Timothy R. Klett, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1824-W
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Laptev Sea Shelf Province as part of the 2008 Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (CARA) program. The province is situated in the Russian Federation and is located between the Taimyr Peninsula and the Novosibirsk...
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Northwest Laptev Sea Shelf Province, 2008
Timothy R. Klett, Janet K. Pitman
Thomas E. Moore, Donald L. Gautier, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1824-S
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has recently assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Northwest Laptev Sea Shelf Province as part of the USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal. The province is in the Russian Arctic, east of Severnaya Zemlya and the Taimyr fold-and-thrust belt. The province is...
Barite (Barium)
Craig A. Johnson, Nadine M. Piatak, M. Michael Miller
Klaus J. Schulz, DeYoung Jr., Robert R. Seal, II, Dwight Bradley, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1802-D
Barite (barium sulfate, BaSO4) is vital to the oil and gas industry because it is a key constituent of the mud used to drill oil and gas wells. Elemental barium is an additive in optical glass, ceramic glazes, and other products. Within the United States, barite is produced mainly from...
Tellurium
Richard J. Goldfarb, Byron R. Berger, Micheal W. George, Robert R. Seal, II
Klaus J. Schulz, DeYoung Jr., Robert R. Seal, II, Dwight Bradley, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1802-R
Tellurium (Te) is a very rare element that averages only 3 parts per billion in Earth’s upper crust. It shows a close association with gold and may be present in orebodies of most gold deposit types at levels of tens to hundreds of parts per million. In large-tonnage mineral deposits,...
Graphite
Gilpin R. Robinson Jr., Jane M. Hammarstrom, Donald W. Olson
Klaus J. Schulz, DeYoung Jr., Robert R. Seal, II, Dwight Bradley, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1802-J
Graphite is a form of pure carbon that normally occurs as black crystal flakes and masses. It has important properties, such as chemical inertness, thermal stability, high electrical conductivity, and lubricity (slipperiness) that make it suitable for many industrial applications, including electronics, lubricants, metallurgy, and steelmaking. For some of these...
Beryllium
Nora K. Foley, Brian W. Jaskula, Nadine M. Piatak, Ruth F. Schulte
Klaus J. Schulz, DeYoung Jr., Robert R. Seal, II, Dwight Bradley, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1802-E
Beryllium is a mineral commodity that is used in a variety of industries to make products that are essential for the smooth functioning of a modern society. Two minerals, bertrandite (which is supplied domestically) and beryl (which is currently supplied solely by imports), are necessary to ensure a stable supply...
Gallium
Nora K. Foley, Brian W. Jaskula, Bryn E. Kimball, Ruth F. Schulte
Klaus J. Schulz, DeYoung Jr., Robert R. Seal, II, Dwight Bradley, editor(s)
2017, Professional Paper 1802-H
Gallium is a soft, silvery metallic element with an atomic number of 31 and the chemical symbol Ga. Gallium is used in a wide variety of products that have microelectronic components containing either gallium arsenide (GaAs) or gallium nitride (GaN). GaAs is able to change electricity directly into laser light...
