Petroleum geology data from Mesozoic rock samples in the eastern U.S. Gulf Coast collected 2011 to 2017

Publication Date

2018-05-02

Start Date

1993-02-01

End Date

2017-11-30

Enomoto, C.B., Lohr, C.D., Hackley, P.C., Valentine, B.J., Dulong, F.T., and Hatcherian, J.J., 2018, Petroleum geology data from Mesozoic rock samples in the eastern U.S. Gulf Coast collected 2011 to 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7B27TJ5.

Type: Publications that are sources of data for this resource

The U.S. Geological Survey will assess undiscovered petroleum resources in the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale in 2018. A three-year research program to support the assessment included sampling and analysis of several hundred Mesozoic rock samples from the onshore eastern Gulf Coast subsurface, primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana (Enomoto and others, 2017). Samples were analyzed using multiple analytical approaches, including programmed pyrolysis (Rock-Eval), organic petrographic analysis including vitrinite reflectance, and X-ray diffraction mineralogy. Also included herein are related data from rock samples in the Mississippi Salt Basin that were collected during previous investigations into shale gas prospectivity in the Aptian section (Enomoto and others, 2012; Hackley and others, 2014a,b; Valentine and others, 2014).

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