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Mineral Occurrence data for the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance and Uinta Basins

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2016
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Citation

Johnson, R.C., Birdwell, J.E., Mercier, T.J., and Brownfield, M.E., 2016, Mineral Occurrence data for the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance and Uinta Basins: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XP7334.

Summary

This legacy database lists occurrences of minerals identified in the Green River Formation in the Uinta and Piceance Basins, Utah and Colorado using X-ray diffraction (XRD). The database was compiled from data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and former U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM). The database includes 1200 samples from 14 cores in the Uinta Basin and 9443 samples from 30 cores in the Piceance Basin; within that dataset over 40 mineral phases are represented between the two basins. Quartz, dolomite, and feldspars are the most common minerals. For nearly a century, these two agencies conducted extensive research on the oil shale deposits of the Eocene Green River Formation, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Beginning in the [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Justin E Birdwell
Originator :
Ronald C Johnson, Justin E Birdwell, Tracey J Mercier, Michael E Brownfield
Metadata Contact :
Christopher P Anderson
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Central Energy Resources Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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Mineral Occurrence data for the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance and Uinta Basins.xml
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Piceance USBM X-ray for data release.csv 987.7 KB text/csv
Piceance USBM X-ray for data release.xlsx 516.9 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Uinta USBM X-ray for data release.csv 119.09 KB text/csv
Uinta USBM X-ray for data release.xlsx 84.92 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

These data were digitized for the following purposes: (1) to preserve legacy data on two important resource basins containing oil shale, petroleum (oil and tar sands), aluminum (dawsonite) and sodium bicarbonate (nahcolite) resources; (2) for research into the geochemical variations between and within the two basins to better understand the history of the Green River lacustrine system; (3) to assess co-occurrences of various minerals in order to better understand the geochemistry of the lake and oil shale resource; and (4) to compare with other XRD mineralogy datasets collected on the Piceance and Uinta basin oil shales.
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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/F7XP7334

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