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

This data release contains Rock-Eval pyrolysis, organic petrographic (reflectance), and X-ray diffraction mineralogy data for subsurface Mesozoic rock samples from the eastern onshore Gulf Coast Basin (primarily Mississippi and Louisiana). Samples were analyzed in support of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment of undiscovered petroleum resources in the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale and evaluation of shale gas prospectivity in the Aptian section of the Mississippi Salt Basin.

Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Carbonate, Chlorite, Energy Resources, Feldspar, All tags... Florida, Gulf Coast Basin, HI, Hydrogen Enrichment Index, Illite, Kaolinite, LOI, Loss on Ignition, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi Canyon, OI, Outer Continental Shelf, Oxygen Enrichment Index, PI, Production Index, Pyrite, Quartz, Ro, Rock-Eval, S1, S2, S3, Smectite, Structural Geology, TOC, Tmax, Total Hydrocarbon Generation Potential, Total Organic Carbon, Transformation Ratio, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), geochemistry, hydrocarbons, kerogen, mineralogy, organic content, pyrolysis, thermal maturity, vitrinite reflectance, Fewer tags