2D micromodel studies of pore-throat clogging by pure fine-grained sediments and natural sediments from NGHP-02, offshore India

Fine-grained sediments, or “fines,” are nearly ubiquitous in natural sediments, even in the predominantly coarse-grained sediments that host gas hydrates. Fines within these sandy sediments can be mobilized and subsequently clog flow pathways while methane is being extracted from gas hydrate as an energy resource. Using two-dimensional (2D) micromodels to test the conditions in which clogging occurs provides insights for choosing production operation parameters that optimize methane recovery in the field. During methane extraction, several processes can alter the mobility and clogging potential of fines: (1) fluid flow as the formation is depressurized to release methane from gas hydrate, (2) shifting pore-fluid...

Categories: Data; Tags: 2D micromodel, Bay of Bengal, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Indian Ocean, All tags... Krishna-Godavari Basin, Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marine Geology, NGHP-02, NGHP-02-09, NGHP-02-16, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, clogging, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, illite, image analysis, kaolin, laboratory experiments, mica, natural resource extraction, optical microscopy, permeability, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Dataset of diatom controls on the sedimentation behavior of fine-grained sediment collected offshore of South Korea during the Second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2

One of the primary goals of South Korea’s second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition (UBGH2) was to examine the geotechnical properties of the marine sediment associated with methane gas hydrate occurrences found offshore of eastern Korea in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages formed by a lattice of water molecules. During UBGH2, concentrated gas hydrate was found in two sedimentary environments: gas hydrate was found in thin, coarse-grained sediment layers interbedded with fine-grained sediment (fines, such as clays and muds) and as veins of essentially pure gas hydrate within predominantly fine-grained...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, East Sea, Geophysics, South Korea, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Ulleung Basin, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Sheridan County Vulnerability Assessment Groundwater Samples (2011)

Groundwater samples collected from wells in eastern Sheridan County, Montana in the September, 2011.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bakken Formation, Eastern Sheridan County, Montana, Sheridan County, United States of America, All tags... Williston Basin, brine, contamination index, groundwater, water quality, Fewer tags

Dependence of sedimentation behavior on pore-fluid chemistry for sediment collected offshore South Korea during the Second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2

One goal of Korea’s second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2, is to examine geotechnical properties of the marine sediment associated with methane gas hydrate occurrences found offshore eastern Korea in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages formed by a lattice of water molecules. Offshore Korea, gas hydrate is found in thin, coarse-grained sediment layers that are interbedded with fine-grained sediment. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in these layered marine environments is technically and economically viable remains an open research...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, East Sea, Energy Resources, Marine Geology, All tags... Soil Sciences, South Korea, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Ulleung Basin, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, kerosene, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Tungsten Deposits in the United States (ver. 2.0, August 2020)

This is version 2.0 of Tungsten Deposits in the United States. This data release provides the descriptions of approximately 100 U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mineral occurrences (deposits), and mine features that contain enrichments of tungsten (W). This data release reports on U.S. mines and deposits with greater than or equal to 215 metric tons of tungsten metal (30,000 short ton units of tungsten trioxide). Sites in this database occur in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Washington. As a part of the process set forth by Executive Order 13817, the USGS National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) identified W as a critical mineral...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Adit, Alaska, Alluvial placer Sn, Arc-related porphyry Mo, Area, All tags... Arizona, Au-W breccia, Brine, Brine Mine, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California, Climax Mo deposits, Colorado, Department of the Interior (DOI), Deposit, Disseminated pluton Au-Sb, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Epithermal Mn, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC), Idaho, Mine Feature, Mine Shaft, Mineral District, Mineral Occurrence, Mineral Region, Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Mining District, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Open Pit Mine, Placer Au-W, Placer Mine, Polymetallic veins, Porphyry Cu, Porphyry Mo-Cu, Porphyry Mo-Nb, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Replacement in calcareous schists Au-Ag-Sb, Sn greisen deposits, Sn skarn deposits, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Underground Workings, United States, Utah, W skarn deposits, W veins, Washington, antimony, arsenic, beryllium, copper, critical mineral, data release, deposit type, economic geology, economy, ferberite, fluorspar, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, hübnerite, iron, lead, lithium, location, metallic mineral resources, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, niobium, platinum-group elements, rare-earth elements, rhenium, scheelite, silver, sulfur, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, zinc, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of the People's Republic of China

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for the People's Republic of China. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains by updating and publishing the georeferenced locations of mineral commodity production and processing facilities, mineral...

Tags: Asia, China, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fujian Province, All tags... GIS, Geography, Guangdong Province, Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province, Hebei Province, Hunan Province, Information Sciences, Jiangsu Province, LNG, Mineral Resources, NGL, PGE, REE, Shandong Province, South China Sea, Tianjin Municipality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Zhejiang Province, aluminum, amethyst, antimony, antimony occurrence, antimony resources, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium,, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, dam, deposit, diamond, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, extra high voltage, ferroalloys, floating storage, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gemstone, gemstones, geography, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefied natural gas (LNG), lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, onshore, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, phosphorus, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, power transmission, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, regasification unit (FSRU), renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, terminal, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, ultra high voltage, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, water storage, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Dependence of sediment compressibility and recompressibility on pore fluid chemistry for pure, endmember fines

The safety, effectiveness and longevity of many construction and geotechnical engineering projects rely on correctly accounting for the evolution of soil properties over time. Critical sediment properties, such as compressibility, can change in response to pore-fluid chemistry changes, particularly if the sediment contains appreciable concentrations of fine-grained materials. Pore-fluid changes act at the micro scale, altering interactions between sediment particles, or between sediment particles and the pore fluid. These micro-scale alterations change how sediment fabrics and void ratios develop, which directly impacts macro-scale properties such as sediment compressibility. The goal of this study is to correlate...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, calcium carbonate, compressibility, consolidation, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, illite, kaolin, kerosene, mica, recompresibility, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Sedimentation Rate Dependence on Pore Fluid Chemistry for Sediment Collected From Area B, Krishna-Godavari Basin, During India's National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition NGHP-02

One goal of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program's NGHP-02 expedition was to examine the geomechanical response of marine sediment to the extraction of methane from gas hydrate found offshore eastern India in the Bay of Bengal. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages in a lattice of water molecules. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in the marine subsurface is technically and economically viable remains an open research topic as of 2018. This data release provides insight about a poorly quantified aspect of this process: the reaction of fine-grained sediment particles...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, kerosene, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Characteristic Settling Time and Interface Height Dependence on Pore Fluid Chemistry for Sediment Collected From Area B, During India's National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition NGHP-02

One goal of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program's NGHP-02 expedition was to examine the geomechanical response of marine sediment to the extraction of methane from gas hydrate found offshore eastern India in the Bay of Bengal. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages in a lattice of water molecules. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in the marine subsurface is technically and economically viable remains an open research topic as of 2018. This data release provides insight about a poorly quantified aspect of this process: the reaction of fine-grained sediment particles...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, kerosene, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Lithium Deposits in the United States

This data release provides the descriptions of approximately 20 U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mines, and mineral occurrences (deposits and prospects) that contain enrichments of lithium (Li). This release includes sites that have a contained resource and (or) past production of lithium metal greater than 15,000 metric tons. Sites in this database occur in Arkansas, California, Nevada, North Carolina, and Utah. There are several deposits that were not included in the database because they did not meet the cutoff requirement, and those occur in Arizona, Colorado, the New England area, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In the United States, lithium was first mined from pegmatite orebodies in South...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Arkansas, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California, Department of the Interior (DOI), Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), All tags... Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC), Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Mineralogy, Nevada, North Carolina, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, boron, brine, bromine, closed-basin brine, commodity, critical mineral, data release, deposit type, economic geology, economy, evaporites, fluorine, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, geothermal reservoir, lithium, lithium-bearing clay, lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite, lithium-enriched oilfield brine, location, metallic mineral resources, mine feature, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral district, mineral occurrence, mineral region, mineral resources, mining district, natural resource exploration, open pit mine, ore, potassium, prospect, sodium, tungsten, well, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Select Countries in Southwest Asia

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 10 countries of interest in Southwest Asia (area of study): Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains...

Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Cambodia, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, All tags... Geography, India, Indonesia, Information Sciences, Iran, LNG, LNG terminals, Laos, Malaysia–Thailand JDA, Mineral Resources, NGL, Nepal, North Korea, PGE, Pakistan, REE, Thailand, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aluminum, amethyst, antimony, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl, beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, critical minerals, deposit, diamond, dry port, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, ferroalloys, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gasification, gemstone, gemstones, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefaction, liquefied natural gas, lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, stratabound copper, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

U.S. Geological Survey National Produced Waters Geochemical Database (ver. 3.0, December 2023)

During hydrocarbon production, water is typically co-produced from the geologic formations producing oil and gas. Understanding the composition of these produced waters is important to help investigate the regional hydrogeology, the source of the water, the efficacy of water treatment and disposal plans, potential economic benefits of mineral commodities in the fluids, and the safety of potential sources of drinking or agricultural water. In addition to waters co-produced with hydrocarbons, geothermal development or exploration brings deep formation waters to the surface for possible sampling. This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Produced Waters Geochemical Database, which contains geochemical and other information...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, brine, energy resources, farming, All tags... geochemistry, hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas, produced waters, salinity, shale gas, unconventional production, water chemistry, Fewer tags

Sheridan County Vulnerability Assessment Surface Water Samples (2011)

Surface water samples collected from wetlands in eastern Sheridan County, Montana in the September, 2011.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bakken Formation, Eastern Sheridan County, Montana, Sheridan County, United States of America, All tags... WPA, Williston Basin, brine, contamination index, surface water, water quality, wetlands, Fewer tags

Dependence of sedimentation rate and behavior on pore fluid chemistry for pure, endmember fines

The safety, effectiveness and longevity of many construction and geotechnical engineering projects rely on correctly accounting for the evolution of soil properties over time. Critical sediment properties, such as compressibility, can change in response to pore-fluid chemistry changes, particularly if the sediment contains appreciable concentrations of fine-grained materials. Pore-fluid changes act at the micro scale, altering interactions between sediment particles, or between sediment particles and the pore fluid. These micro-scale alterations change how sediment fabrics and void ratios develop, which directly impacts macro-scale properties such as sediment compressibility. The goal of this study is to correlate...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, illite, kaolin, kerosene, mica, settling, silica silt, sodium hexametaphosphate, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Dataset of diatom controls on the compressibility and permeability of fine-grained sediment collected offshore of South Korea during the Second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2

One of the primary goals of South Korea’s second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition (UBGH2) was to examine the geotechnical properties of the marine sediment associated with methane gas hydrate occurrences found off the shore of eastern Korea in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages formed by a lattice of water molecules. During UBGH2, concentrated gas hydrate was found in two sedimentary environments: thin, coarse-grained sediment layers interbedded with fine-grained sediment (fines, such as clays and muds) and as veins of essentially pure gas hydrate within beds of predominantly fine-grained sediment....

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, East Sea, Geophysics, South Korea, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Ulleung Basin, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, compressibility, consolidation, core analysis, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, laboratory experiments, oceans, permeability, recompresibility, soil sciences, Fewer tags

U.S. Geological Survey National Produced Waters Geochemical Database v2.3

Note: this data release has been superseded by a new version 3.0 published in 2023. Find the new version here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DSRCZJ. During hydrocarbon production, water is typically co-produced from the geologic formations producing oil and gas. Understanding the composition of these produced waters is important to help investigate the regional hydrogeology, the source of the water, the efficacy of water treatment and disposal plans, potential economic benefits of mineral commodities in the fluids, and the safety of potential sources of drinking or agricultural water. The U.S. Geological Survey National Produced Waters Geochemical Database v2.3 is an updated compilation of geochemical and related information...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, brine, energy resources, geochemistry, All tags... hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas, produced waters, salinity, shale gas, unconventional production, water chemistry, Fewer tags