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Airborne magnetic survey data

East Poplar Oil Field and surrounding area, October 2014, Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2014-10-28
End Date
2014-10-30

Citation

Ball, L.B., Smith, B.D., and Thamke, J.N., 2016, Airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey data, East Poplar Oil Field and surrounding area, October 2014, Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7QC01MD.

Summary

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) and magnetic survey data were collected during October 2014 in a 553-square-kilometer area that includes the East Poplar oil field on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana, USA. Data surround the city of Poplar and extend south into the Missouri River floodplain. Data were acquired with the SkyTEM301 transient electromagnetic helicopter-borne system together with a Geometrics G-822 magnetometer. The AEM average depth of investigation is about 80 m. The survey was flown at a nominal flight height of 30 m above terrain along north-south oriented flight lines; the majority of lines had a nominal spacing of 200 m with a sub-block area in the central portion of the oil field having 100 m [...]

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PoplarMontana2014_Mag_Data.csv
“Magnetic data”
150.68 MB text/csv
PoplarResidualMag.jpg
“Preview image - residual magnetic field”
thumbnail 1.25 MB image/jpeg
DataDictionary_AirborneMagnetic_SkyTEM.csv
“Data dictionary”
1.27 KB text/csv

Purpose

Areas of high conductivity in shallow aquifers in the East Poplar oil field area are being delineated by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, in order to map areas of saline-water plumes and to define the base of the unconfined aquifer system. This survey reoccupies a substantial portion of a 2004 AEM and magnetic survey of the same area flown with a more shallowly focused AEM system (released under USGS Open-File Report 2006-1216, downloadable at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1216/).

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