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Digital subsurface data from previously published contour map of the top of the Wilcox Group, northern Gulf of Mexico coastal region

June 28, 2022

The lower Paleogene Wilcox Group crops out around the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico Basin and is a major coal-bearing unit and a primary oil and gas producer in the lower Paleogene section of the Gulf Coast region. The outcrop distribution of the Wilcox Group and other coal-bearing strata of the Gulf Coast region was compiled as part of a U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Assessment (Warwick and others, 1997). A structure contour map of the top of the Wilcox Group was constructed as part of a U.S. Geological Survey Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Oil and Gas of the northern Gulf of Mexico coastal region (Warwick, 2017). This surface, mainly constructed using data from oil and gas wells, depicts the overall configuration [...]

Publication Year 2022
Title Digital subsurface data from previously published contour map of the top of the Wilcox Group, northern Gulf of Mexico coastal region
DOI 10.5066/P973641H
Authors Donald Sweetkind, Peter D Warwick
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog
USGS Organization Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center