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Total organic carbon and programmed temperature pyrolysis data for the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, USA

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2020-01-29
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2020-03-09

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Scott, C.T., Hackley, P.C., and Birdwell, J.E., 2024, Total organic carbon and programmed temperature pyrolysis data for the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13UY3RQ.

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One hundred ninety-six black shale samples of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Bakken Formation were selected from eight drill cores located in Montana and North Dakota, USA. Samples were powdered and total organic carbon and programmed temperature pyrolysis analysis were performed at the U.S. Geological Survey Petroleum Geochemistry Research Laboratory in Denver, CO following standard lab protocols. Total organic carbon contents are reported as wt. % whole rock. Programmed pyrolysis measurements are reported as: S1 (mg HC/g rock), S2 (mg HC/g rock), and S3 (mg CO2/g rock). These values were converted to wt. % C (relative to whole rock) as follows: mg HC/g rock * 0.082 = wt. % C, mg CO2/g rock * 0.025. The S4 carbon pool is calculated [...]

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The data were collected as part of a study on the thermal maturation of Bakken Formation black shales and support the publication: A Novel Application of Programmed Temperature Pyrolysis Data to the Study of Black Shales of the Bakken Formation: A carbon mass balance approach.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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