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Quantifying chemical weathering rates along a precipitation gradient on Basse-Terre Island, French Guadeloupe: new insight from U-series isotopes in weathering rinds Quantifying chemical weathering rates along a precipitation gradient on Basse-Terre Island, French Guadeloupe: new insight from U-series isotopes in weathering rinds
Inside soil and saprolite, rock fragments can form weathering clasts (alteration rinds surrounding an unweathered core) and these weathering rinds provide an excellent field system for investigating the initiation of weathering and long term weathering rates. Recently, uranium-series (U-series) disequilibria have shown great potential for determining rind formation rates and quantifying...
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Jacqueline Engel, Linda May, Peter Sak, Jerome Gaillardet, Minghua Ren, Mark Engle, Susan Brantley
Assessment of coalbed gas resources of the Central and South Sumatra Basin Provinces, Indonesia, 2016 Assessment of coalbed gas resources of the Central and South Sumatra Basin Provinces, Indonesia, 2016
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean of 20 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable coalbed gas resource in the Central and South Sumatra Basin Provinces of Indonesia.
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Christopher Schenk, Timothy R. Klett, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Tracey Mercier, Michael Brownfield, Janet Pitman, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Thomas Finn
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources of the South Sumatra Basin Province, Indonesia, 2016 Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources of the South Sumatra Basin Province, Indonesia, 2016
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 689 million barrels of continuous shale oil and 3.9 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the South Sumatra Basin Province in Indonesia.
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Christopher Schenk, Marilyn Tennyson, Timothy R. Klett, Thomas Finn, Tracey Mercier, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Kristen Marra, Phuong A. Le, Sarah Hawkins
Bitumen prices and structural changes in North American crude oil markets Bitumen prices and structural changes in North American crude oil markets
In an earlier report, changes in bitumen prices at Hardesty, Alberta, Canada, were modeled as the responses to changes in monthly prices of Hardesty light/medium crude oil for the period 2000–2006 with a simple error correction econometric model. This note re-examines that price relationship for the period 2009–2014. Over the period 2006–2014, there was also rapid growth in North...
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Emil D. Attanasi
Evolution of the Lower Tertiary Elko Lake Basin, a potential hydrocarbon source rock in Northeast Nevada Evolution of the Lower Tertiary Elko Lake Basin, a potential hydrocarbon source rock in Northeast Nevada
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Ronald Johnson, Justin Birdwell
Overpressure development through time using 4D pressure-volume-temperature modeling in the deep Anadarko Basin, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Overpressure development through time using 4D pressure-volume-temperature modeling in the deep Anadarko Basin, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
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Debra Higley
The Bonneville Flood—A veritable débâcle The Bonneville Flood—A veritable débâcle
The Bonneville Flood was one of the largest floods on Earth. First discovered by G.K. Gilbert in the 1870s during his inspection of the outlet at Red Rock Pass, it was rediscovered in the 1950s by Harold Malde and coworkers, leading to mapping and assessment of spectacular flood features along Marsh Creek, Portneuf River, and Snake River for over 1100 km between the outlet and Lewiston...
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Jim E. O'Connor
Geological, geochemical, and reservoir characterization of the Uteland Butte member of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah Geological, geochemical, and reservoir characterization of the Uteland Butte member of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah
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Justin Birdwell, Michael Vanden Berg, Ronald Johnson, Tracey Mercier, Adam Boehlke, Michael Brownfield
Petroleum system model of the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation in the northern Williston Basin, Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba, and southeastern Alberta, Canada Petroleum system model of the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation in the northern Williston Basin, Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba, and southeastern Alberta, Canada
No abstract available.
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Debra Higley, Nicholas Gianoutsos
The Chuar Petroleum System, Arizona and Utah The Chuar Petroleum System, Arizona and Utah
The Neoproterozoic Chuar Group consists of marine mudstone, sandstone and dolomitic strata divided into the Galeros and Kwagunt Formations, and is exposed only in the eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona. Research by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the late 1980s identified strata within the group to be possible petroleum source rocks, and in particular the Walcott Member of the Kwagunt...
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Paul Lillis
Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil and gas resources in the Dnieper-Donets Basin and North Carpathian Basin Provinces, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, and Poland, 2015 Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil and gas resources in the Dnieper-Donets Basin and North Carpathian Basin Provinces, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, and Poland, 2015
Using a geology-based methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 13 million barrels of oil and 2,643 billion cubic feet of natural gas in the Dnieper-Donets Basin and North Carpathian Basin Provinces of Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, and Poland.
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Timothy R. Klett, Christopher Schenk, Michael Brownfield, Ronald R. Charpentier, Tracey Mercier, Heidi Leathers-Miller, Marilyn Tennyson
Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil resources in the Wolfcamp shale of the Midland Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas, 2016 Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil resources in the Wolfcamp shale of the Midland Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas, 2016
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey assessed technically recoverable mean resources of 20 billion barrels of oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin part of the Permian Basin Province, Texas.
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Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Kristen Marra, Paul Lillis, Tracey Mercier, Heidi Leathers-Miller, Christopher Schenk, Timothy Klett, Phuong A. Le, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Sarah Hawkins, Michael Brownfield, Janet Pitman, Thomas Finn