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This data release contains photographs and photomicrographs from drill cores and cuttings of pre-Middle Jurassic basement rocks that are buried beneath Coastal Plain sedimentary deposits in Florida. These samples provide rare insights into deeply buried rocks that have no surface exposures and no known exposed correlates. These images were acquired to support the characterization, discrimination, and correlation of map units comprising Florida’s basement infrastructure (Deasy and others, 2024a). These are the original images. Annotated images with additional comments are available in the companion Data Report (Deasy and others, 2024b). Semi-quantitative mineral modes of many basement rocks are presented in a companion...
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This data release contains whole-rock geochemical analyses from drill cores and cuttings of pre-Middle Jurassic basement rocks that are buried beneath Coastal Plain sedimentary deposits in Florida and Alabama. The analyses were acquired to support geologic mapping and characterization of little-known coastal-plain basement rock units for topical studies as in geochronology, and applications ranging from mineral, energy, and water resources to earthquake hazards. These samples provide rare insights into deeply buried rocks that have no surface exposures and no known exposed correlates. The 70 whole-rock samples from drill cores and cuttings were selected and described by Ryan Deasy (USGS) and analyzed for major and...
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Data from 316 boreholes (including coreholes) that penetrated buried pre-Middle Jurassic basement rocks that lie beneath Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain sedimentary deposits in Florida and Alabama were compiled from non-proprietary, mostly published sources in order to support subsurface geologic mapping, geologic interpretation of geophysical data (aeromagnetic, gravity, seismic), topical studies as in geochronology, and applications ranging from mineral, energy, and water resources to earthquake hazards. Boreholes into bedrock beneath the coastal plain near the Fall Line in Alabama reveal buried extensions of geologic units exposed in the Piedmont, and those near the Gulf coast and beneath Florida provide rare...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Alabama,
Atlantic Coastal Plain,
Energy Resources,
Florida,
Mineral Resources, All tags...
Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Resources,
bedrock geologic units,
biota,
borehole logging,
coastal zones,
core analysis,
drilling and coring,
elevation,
radiometric dating, Fewer tags
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Regional geologic investigations show that all the metamorphosed crystalline rocks underlying the Greenville 1 degree x 2 degree quadrangle are allochthonous. Seismic-reflection studies, the COCORP line (Cook and others, 1979), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) seismic lines (Harris and Bayer, 1979; Harris and others, 1981) present seismic profiles across different parts of the southern Appalachians. Recent geophysical studies for the now discontinued Appalachian Ultradeep Core Hole (ADCOH) project were concentrated in the Greenville quadrangle (Hatcher and others, 1988). The ADCOH seismic-reflection profiles tie in with the COCORP profile of Cook and others (1979), providing a three-dimensional view of the...
Tags: Amphibolite,
Antreville,
Blue Ridge,
Caesars Head Granite,
Calc-silicate rock, All tags...
Cambrian,
Chauga River Formation,
Copperhill Formation,
Coronaca Granite,
Devonian,
Diabase,
Elberton Granite,
Gabbro,
Georgia,
Gneiss,
Granite,
Granodiorite,
Great Smoky Group,
Greenville,
Helen Group,
Henderson Gneiss,
Horton Formation,
Hothouse Formation,
Hughes Gap Formation,
Jurassic,
Mesoproterozoic,
Mesozoic,
Metasedimentary rock,
Metavolcanic rock,
Mineral Resources,
Mississippian,
Monzonite,
Mylonite,
Nacoochee Formation,
Nantahala Shale,
Neoproterozoic,
Ocoee Supergroup,
Ordovician,
Paleozoic,
Paragneiss,
Pegmatite,
Pennsylvanian,
Permian,
Phyllite,
Phyllonite,
Poor Mountain Formation,
Quartzite,
Richard Russell Formation,
Robertstown Formation,
Schist,
Silurian,
South Carolina,
Structural Geology,
Syenite,
Tonalite,
Toxaway Gneiss,
Trondhjemite,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wehutty Formation,
digitization,
earth sciences,
folding (geologic),
foliation (geologic),
geologic history,
geoscientificInformation,
geospatial datasets,
igneous rocks,
lineation (geologic),
metamorphic rocks,
metamorphism (geological),
plutonic rocks,
radiometric dating,
rubidium-strontium analysis,
structural geology,
uranium-lead analysis,
volcanic rocks, Fewer tags
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Data from 391 boreholes (including coreholes) that penetrated buried pre-Cretaceous basement rocks that lie beneath Atlantic Coastal Plain sedimentary deposits in Georgia and South Carolina were compiled from non-proprietary, mostly published sources in order to support subsurface geologic mapping, geologic interpretation of geophysical data (aeromagnetic, gravity, seismic), topical studies as in geochronology, and applications ranging from mineral, energy, and water resources to earthquake hazards in the Charleston seismic zone. Most of the entries are based on previous literature. In a few cases where noted, drill cores or cuttings were examined for basic geologic observations. Boreholes into bedrock beneath the...
Categories: Data;
Types: Data,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Atlantic Coastal Plain,
Energy Resources,
Geophysics,
Georgia,
Hydrology, All tags...
Mineral Resources,
South Carolina,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
basement rock,
bedrock geology,
borehole logging,
core analysis,
drilling and coring,
elevation,
geoscientificinformation, Fewer tags
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