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USGS Gulf Coast Source Rock Database (ver. 2.0, October 2023)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1988
End Date
2019
Last Revision
2023-10-13

Citation

Counts, J.W., Craddock, W.H., and Park, A.J., 2021, USGS Gulf Coast Source Rock Database (ver. 2.0, October 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NV8HDU.

Summary

The USGS Gulf Coast Source Rock Database (GCSRD) is an online repository for all publicly available source rock data (outcrop and subsurface) from the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. "Source rock data" are defined in this context as data that include any of the following measured or calculated parameters: -total organic carbon (TOC), -various pyrolysis measurements (Tmax, S1, S2, S3, HI, OI), -vitrinite or bitumen reflectance values. All data in the GCSRD have been extracted from previously published peer-reviewed literature or as USGS-released data sets; no new measurements are included. The underlying data set is presented as an interactive, map-view application where the user can [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
John W Counts
Originator :
John W Counts, William H Craddock, Andy J Park
Metadata Contact :
Eric A Morrissey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center

Attached Files

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Field definitions final.txt 7.12 KB text/plain
USGS_Gulf_Coast_Source_Rock_Database.txt 2.48 MB text/plain
USGS_Gulf_Coast_Source_Rock_Database.xlsx 501.37 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
GCSRD_2023_Update_Final.txt 479.85 KB text/plain
Version Comments.txt 762 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

The database is designed to be a convenient resource for any member of the public to easily access source rock data from across the Gulf Coast region, circumventing the need for extensive, time-consuming literature searches.

Map

Communities

  • Geology, Energy & Minerals (GEM) Science Center
  • USGS Data Release Products

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Provenance

Please see attached metadata record for full dataset provenance. The Excel version of the database was modified on April 14, 2021 by John Counts to remove internal review comments. No data were changed. Revision 2.0 by John Counts on October 13, 2023. To review the changes that were made, see “Version Comments.txt” in the attached files section.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9NV8HDU

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