Digital data of structural and isopach features derived from previously published Black Warrior Basin studies

The Black Warrior Basin is a sedimentary foreland basin in western Alabama and northern Mississippi. This basin is named after the Black Warrior River and is developed extensively for coal, coalbed methane, conventional oil, and natural gas production. Its geologic genesis was due to Paleozoic tectonic events between the Appalachian and Ouachita orogenic belts. The Paleozoic rock hosts significant hydrocarbon resources, including one of the oldest coalbed methane plays in the United States. A collection of seven publications (Hewitt, 1984; Pike, 1968; Boland and Minihan, 1971; Kidd, 1975; Riestenberg and Gray, 2013; Thomas, 1988; and Hatch and Pawlewicz, 2007) were found noteworthy for their subsurface structural interpretations and were thus converted into a standardized digital format. These digitized publication elements contain contoured subsurface formation elevations, thicknesses, and faults. These elements provide critical understanding to the geometry of the basin and prove valuable for future studies.
This collection of Black Warrior Basin publications includes interpretations and structural data for Paleozoic aged rocks including the Chattanooga Shale, Knox Group, Pottsville Formation, various undifferentiated rocks from the Ordovician, Silurian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Precambrian. The digitized data is provided to users in a file geodatabase, features are attributed with fields that are linked to tabular data sources; an explanation of represented features are also included in linked tabular data. No additional interpretations or judgements have been added or presented. Collected publications of data examined for digestion of structural and isopach resources, include:

Hewitt, J.L., 1984, Geologic Overview, Coal, and Coalbed Methane Resources of the Warrior Basin — Alabama and Mississippi: SG 17: Coalbed Methane Resources of the United States, pg. 73-104, Pub. Id. A138.;
Pike, S.J., 1968, BLACK WARRIOR BASIN, NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA: M 9: Natural Gases of North America, Vol. 2, pg 1693-1701, Pub. Id. A008.;
Boland, L.F., Minihan, E.D., 1971, PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF THE BLACK WARRIOR BASIN: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, Vol. 21, Pages 139-158.;
Kidd, J.T., 1975, PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN SUBSURFACE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE WARRIOR BASIN IN ALABAMA: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, Vol. 25, Pages 20-39.;
Riestenberg, D., Gray, K., 2013, Capacity Report on Knox Group (SECARB Phase III Work Product 1.6.b): Advanced Resources International, Inc., Arlington, VA (United States), https://doi.org/10.2172/1814013.;
Thomas, W.A., 1988, The Black Warrior Basin: The Decade of North American Geology, DNAG, Plate 8, https://doi.org/10.1130/DNAG-GNA-D2.471.;
Hatch, J. R., and Pawlewicz, M.J., 2007, Petroleum assessment of the Pottsville Coal Total Petroleum System, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama and Mississippi, in Hatch, Joseph R., and Pawlewicz, Mark J., compilers, Geologic assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Black Warrior Basin Province, Alabama and Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS–69–I, chap. 4, p. 3.