AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
USGS Mineral Resources: Mineral Resources Data System Map

From the site: "MRDS is a collection of reports describing metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references. It subsumes the original MRDS and MAS/MILS.

MRDS is large and complex. This service provides a subset of the database comprised of those data fields deemed most useful and which most frequently contain some information, but full reports of most records are available as well."

Tags: Geology, Resource, data, download, global, map, mineral resources, usgs
Horizon Systems' NHD Plus

From the site: "NHDPlus is a geo-spatial, hydrologic framework dataset envisioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA Office of Water, assisted by the US Geological Survey, has supported the development of NHDPlus to enhance the EPA Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results (WATERS) activities and the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program's SPARROW modeling. Since its first release in 2006, NHDPlus has been made available by EPA to the wider water resources community and has been used for many diverse applications inside and outside of EPA and USGS."

The site includes data downloads regarding the geospatial hydrologic framework of the United States.

Tags: EPA, NHD, Resource, Water, data, download, geospatial, hydrology, resources, water
GAGES-II: Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow

From the site: "This dataset has two purposes: to provide users with a comprehensive set of geospatial characteristics for a large number of gaged watersheds, particularly for gages with long flow record; and to provide a determination of which of those watersheds represent hydrologic conditions which are least disturbed by human influences ("reference gages"), compared to other watersheds within 12 major ecoregions. Identifying reference gages serves important research goals: for example identifying conditions or goals for stream restoration, climate change studies, and more."

Tags: GAGES, Resource, USGS, Water, data, download, resources, water
Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 Catchments by Major River Basins in the Conterminous United States: Estimated Mean Annual Natural Groundwater Recharge, 2002

From the site: "This tabular data set represents the mean annual natural groundwater recharge, in millimeters, compiled for every MRB_E2RF1catchment of selected Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). The source data set is Estimated Mean Annual Natural Ground-Water Recharge in the Conterminous United States (Wolock, 2003).

The MRB_E2RF1 catchments are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) ERF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and others, 2002; Brakebill and others, 2011).

This tabular data set was created and used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) specifically to estimate the mean annual natural groundwater recharge, in millimeters, per watershed segment in the application of the national SPAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) model . The SPARROW model relates in-stream water-quality measurements to spatially referenced characteristics of watersheds, including contaminant sources and factors influencing terrestrial and stream transport. The model empirically estimates the origin and fate of contaminants in streams, and quantifies uncertainties in these estimates based on model coefficient error and unexplained variability in the observed data."

Tags: Resource, Water, data, download, resources, river basins, united states, usgs, water
AAPG Database: GIS Open Files

From the site: "The AAPG, under the direction and guidance of the GIS Publications Committee and AAPG Datapages, is building a GIS / spatial library comprised of peer-reviewed Global Framework, Geothematic and Geographic themed projects. The project files are free to the public and can be downloaded from this GIS Open Files page. Other project files are available through the subscription-based GIS-UDRIL program within AAPG Datapages."

Downloads include maps of Sedimentary Basins of the World, Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the World, and Source Rocks of the World.

Tags: AAPG, Geographic, Geology, Natural Gas, Oil, Resource, data, download, gas, gis, map, oil, resources, sedimentary basins, source rocks
KY Coal Borehole Database

 Thank you for your interest in information from the Kentucky Geological Survey Coal Borehole Database. These data are based on records supplied to KGS by private coal or land companies, as well as other state and federal agencies. While the staff of KGS has made every effort to ensure that the data reflect information on file, the Kentucky Geological Survey makes no warranty, expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy or validity of these data. The user assumes all liability for any losses or damages that may be incurred through any use or application of these data. Users are requested to notify KGS upon discovery of any errors in the data supplied.   The format for rock descriptions includes the driller's or geologist's English description (in some cases, alpha-numeric codes were used) and an equivalent numeric rock code. A list of these codes and their standard English equivalents is available. Numeric rock codes are based on the system described in core logging manuals by Ferm and Weisenfluh (1981) and Ferm and Smith (1981). Copies of these photographic guides can be obtained from the KGS Public Information Center at the University of Kentucky by calling 859-257-5500, x124 or toll free 877-778-7827.   Borehole records may contain coal bed correlations determined by KGS geologists. A list of coal bed abbreviations for the Eastern and Western Kentucky coal fields is also available. Users should use independent means of verifying these interpretations. If you have any additional questions or would like to supply information that would improve the data's accuracy or completeness, please contact Jerry Weisenfluh, Bethany Overfield, or William Andrews at the Kentucky Geological Survey at 859-257-5500.  

Tags: Coal, KY, Resource, boar hole, kentucky
Water Pollution Risk Associated with Natural Gas Extraction from the Marcellus Shale

In recent years, shale gas formations have become economically viable through the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. These techniques carry potential environmental risk due to their high water use and substantial risk for water pollution. Using probability bounds analysis, we assessed the likelihood of water contamination from natural gas extraction in the Marcellus Shale. Probability bounds analysis is well suited when data are sparse and parameters highly uncertain. The study model identified five pathways of water contamination: transportation spills, well casing leaks, leaks through fractured rock, drilling site discharge, and wastewater disposal. Probability boxes were generated for each pathway. The potential contamination risk and epistemic uncertainty associated with hydraulic fracturing wastewater disposal was several orders of magnitude larger than the other pathways. Even in a best-case scenario, it was very likely that an individual well would release at least 200 m3 of contaminated fluids. Because the total number of wells in the Marcellus Shale region could range into the tens of thousands, this substantial potential risk suggested that additional steps be taken to reduce the potential for contaminated fluid leaks. To reduce the considerable epistemic uncertainty, more data should be collected on the ability of industrial and municipal wastewater treatment facilities to remove contaminants from used hydraulic fracturing fluid.

Tags: Environmental Hazard, Geology, Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus Shale, Water Pollution
Cleavage Duplexes in the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Foreland

Cleavage duplexes are zones of platy, spaced cleavage, that either parallel bedding or ramp through shale sections. Examples are 2-60 m thick. The cleavage within the zones is generally subperpendicular to the zone boundaries but sigmoidally dragged against floor, roof and internal thrusts. Between the well-developed floor thrust and the more obscure roof thrusts of the duplexes the shale has been shortened >30% perpendicular to cleavage. The thrusts are sharp strain discontinuities because both overlying and underlying shale is uncleared and less deformed (< 10% layer parallel shortening). Cleavage in the duplexes was initiated perpendicular to bedding by pure shear in front of a propagating tip line. Cleavage halos at the ends of associated stiff carbonate concretions are small scale models illustrating initiation of cleavage. The cleavage is a primary crenulation cleavage with dissolution of limbs indicated by clay carbon partings. Transfer of thrusting from the floor to the roof of the cleavage duplex proceeded incrementally toward the foreland, imposing the simple shear that led to
sigmoidal cleavage traces as the cleavage continuously evolved. Environmental conditions for formation of cleavage duplexes during the Alleghanian Orogeny are estimated as temperature 200-250°C, and pressure 1.1-1.3 kb, based upon conodont coloration (CAI 4), fluid inclusions and restored stratigraphic thicknesses. Cleavage duplexes or similar fold duplexes have been recognized in suitable black shales of Ordovician to Carboniferous age. They are manifestations of the progressive transfer of slip from floor to roof through a disturbed zone that serves as a shear boundary between large, more internally passive, thrust sheets.

Tags: Appalachian Foreland, Cleavage Duplex, Geology, Marcellus Shale, Structural, task 9
Public Lands - National Wildlife Refuges

National Wildlife Refuges are federal lands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Two refuges are in or along the West Virginia state boundary. The primary source for boundary information is the USFWS Realty program (status maps, legal surveys). An effort by the USFWS Region 5 (northeast states - ME, NH,VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE, WV, VA) Realty Division, Cartography and Spatial Data Services Branch has resulted in digital refuge boundaries for all refuges in the northeast at a scale of 1:24,000. Canaan Valley NWR is fully within the West Virginia state boundary, while the Ohio River Islands NWR is a chain of islands in the Ohio River, bordering the West Virginia state boundary.

The West Virginia GIS Technical Center downloaded interchange files for both NWR's from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Region 5 Cartography and Spatial Data Services website (link below in supplementary information). The boundary for the Canaan Valley NWR is current as of 10/11/2006 and the boundaries for the Ohio River Islands is current as of 11/07/2000.

Tags: Biologic, National Wildlife Refugees, depositional environment
WV Land Cover Forest Service

  Will vary by map. In each map, each pixel will have a value representing the index of interest. For example, the ForDen_66ha dataset is a grid map for West Virginia at 30 meter resolution. Each pixel value represents an index of forest area density for the surrounding 65.61 ha.(27x27 pixel) analysis window.  

Tags: Forest Service, Resource, WV, Water, West Virginia, land classification, land cover
St Peter Sandstone Illinois Basin

 The deeper portions of the Illinois Basin are the focus of this investigation because this area contains strata that are sufficiently deep, porous and permeable, and hydraulically isolated from fresh-water aquifers to make potential CO2 sequestration targets. Moreover, southern Illinois and western Kentucky are areas with major CO2 producers (fig. 1).  

Tags: CO2, CO2 Sequestration, Gases, Geochemistry, Geology, Illinois Basin, Petrophysical, Physical Properties, St. Peter Sandstone, Stratigraphy
USGS Produced Waters Database

 The produced water database contains approximately 58,000 records that describe the major chemical constituents of water that was produced with oil and natural gas from wells in the United States. Along with the chemical data, are fields that describe well location, geologic setting, and method of sample collection. The database was reviewed and updated from the original compilation prepared by the Department of Energy to render the contained data internally consistent and accessible using standard USGS nomenclature.  

Tags: Natural Gas, Produced Waters, USGS, brine, oil
Arbuckle Group Oklahoma

 Extensive karst and solution-collapse brecciation (ancient cave systems) developed within these carbonates as a result of meteoric water infiltration during the widespread post-Sauk unconformity (Wilson, 1994). It is these karsted zones that contain significant amounts of porosity and permeability in what are otherwise low-porosity and low-permeability rocks. The high-porosity and -permeability karsted zones can be targets for CO2 sequestration when they subcrop beneath competent seals, such as the ubiquitous Devonian-age Woodford Formation.   Main site    www.beg.utexas.edu/environqlty/co2seq/co2data.htm  

Tags: Arbuckle Group, CO2, CO2 Sequestration, Gases, Geochemistry, Geology, Oklahoma, Petrophysical, Physical Properties, Stratigraphy, Woodford Formation
WV Streams - Major Rivers and Lakes

  Major water bodies intended for use in making statewide cartographic maps. Line and polygon coverages derived from the USGS National Hydrological Dataset (NHD) and Digital Line Graphs (DLG). Compiled and edited by the WV GIS Technical Center. Published 2002.  

Tags: Fluid Injection/Production, Modeling, Types of Data, WV, West Virginia, bodies of water, hydrology, lakes, rivers, streams, water
Monthly Biodiesel Production Report

 The Monthly Biodiesel Production Report provides data on operations of the U.S. biodiesel industry as part of EIA's response to section 1508 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which directed EIA to publish information on renewable fuels including biodiesel. Data are provided for the U.S. and in selected cases by state and region.  

Tags: Biomass, Resource, biodeisel, monthly, production
Guide to Alaska Natural Gas Projects

 The great North Slope oil discoveries of the 1960s and 1970s found an estimated 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas one and a half times the entire volume of U.S. production last year. TheU.S. Geological Survey estimatesan additional 221 trillion cubic feet await discovery in Alaska's Arctic, onshore and offshore. If only an economically viable way could be found to move the gas to consumers.  

Tags: Alaska, Energy, Natural Gas, Resource, White Paper, gas
Tuscaloosa Group Alabama Gulf Coastal Plain

 Mobile Alabama is located along a major embayment within the coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico. Mobile is underlain by more than 10,000 ft of Tertiary and Mesozoic strata that generally dip and thicken seaward. A number of structural features and faults in the area (particularly the Mobile Graben) offset and alter the stratigraphy of many aquifers in the Mobile area  

Tags: Alabama, CO2, CO2 Sequestration, Gases, Geochemistry, Geology, Mesozoic
Geology and Structure Map of North America

 The Geological Society of Americas (GSA) Geologic Map of North America (Reed and others, 2005; 1:5,000,000) shows the geology of a significantly large area of the Earth, centered on North and Central America and including the submarine geology of parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This map is now converted to a Geographic Information System (GIS) database that contains all geologic and base-map information shown on the two printed map sheets and the accompanying explanation sheet. We anticipate this map database will be revised at some unspecified time in the future, likely through the actions of a steering committee managed by the Geological Society of America (GSA) and staffed by scientists from agencies including, but not limited to, those responsible for the original map compilation (U.S. Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).   Regarding the use of this product, as noted by the maps compilers:   The Geologic Map of North America is an essential educational tool for teaching the geology of North America to university students and for the continuing education of professional geologists in North America and elsewhere. In addition, simplified maps derived from the Geologic Map of North America are useful for enlightening younger students and the general public about the geology of the continent.   With publication of this database, the preparation of any type of simplified map is made significantly easier. More important perhaps, the database provides a more accessible means to explore the map information and to compare and analyze it in conjunction with other types of information (for example, land use, soils, biology) to better understand the complex interrelations among factors that affect Earth resources, hazards, ecosystems, and climate.  

Tags: Geology, Glacial, Lithology, North America, Structural, drainage, faults, geologic structure
KY Oil and Gas Production

 Monthly oil and gas production data by well are now available on the web through the Kentucky Geological Survey oil and gas well search pages. When you search for wells, look for the Production Data link. If there is no link, no production data have been associated with the selected well. The data are reformatted from the monthly oil and gas production data available as text files by county and year from the Kentucky Division of Oil and Gas.  

Tags: Data, Depths, Disposal, Drilling, Flow Rate, Gas, Identifiers, Injection, Oil, Phase Stability, Pressure, Production Interval, Temperature, Total Depth, Types, Well Data, gas, oil, production, wells
WV Appalachian Oil and Gas Data PTTC

  Appalachian Region oil and gas data that includes Non-Vertical, New Trenton, Historic Trenton, and Coal-Bed Methane wells. Data available for the following states: Kentucky, West Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania.    In January 2002 well data complied by Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) from State Geological Surveys. In March 2002 data standardized and GIS files created by WV GIS Technical Center.  

Tags: WV, Well Data, West Virginia, gas, oil
LNG Market Grows but Uncertainties Persist

 Driving much of the discussion at a liquefied natural gas conference in London were two relatively recent events that have rattled how the global LNG industry views its short-term future.   The events help explain the unusual LNG pricing trends of late, underscore some of the volatile dynamics of supply and demand, and amplify the uncertainty forecasters have of their own predictions.  

Tags: LNG, Liquified Natural Gas, Market, Market Growth, Natural Gas, Resource, White Paper
Northern Gulf Institute

 The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) is a partnership of Mississippi State University, the University of Southern Mississippi, Florida State University, Louisiana State University, the Alabama Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The NGI 2011-2021 Strategic Plan describes our unique identity and capabilities, the purpose of the work we do, our long-term goals and our near-term implementation activities.  

Tags: Cables, Marine, Marine Man Made Features, gas, marine, oil
Mineral Management Service MMS

 The Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, announces the availability of all releasable digital well log curves stored in the MMS database. Well logs collected under 30 CFR 250.66 were required to be submitted in digital format for all wells spudded on or after December 1, 1995. Releasability of this geoscientific data is in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations.   Digital well log curves are a new and valuable data format to be used with the latest technology for the exploration and development of hydrocarbons on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf. When incorporated into other databases that use the latest technology, this information provides the geoscientist with a visual representation of hydrocarbon reservoirs, thereby increasing accuracy of interpretation and permitting greater confidence in the resulting drilling recommendations.  

Tags: BOEM, Cased Hole Logs, Classification, Data, Depths, Drilling, Energy, Geophysics, Identifiers, Installation, Logging While Drilling, MMS, Management, Ocean, Open Hole Logs, Types, Well Data, Well Logs, gas, leasing, mineral, offshore, oil
Pennsylvania Spatial Data: Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Montgomery County

From the site: "This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties."

Tags: Geographic, Geology, Montgomery County, PASDA, Pennsylvania, Soils, data, download, gis, soil, soil survey
Gulf Coast Carbon Center

 Burning fossil fuels (gas, oil, and coal) has measurably increased the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although the long-term consequences of this accumulation are hotly debated, it is likely that it will have negative impacts on both the ocean and climate.   One possible response is to capture carbon dioxide after combustion in industrial settings and reinject it into deep geological reservoirs where it will be retained for long periods of time. This process is called geological sequestration, or carbon capture and storage (CCS).  

Tags: CO2, CO2 Sequestration, Formation Name, Gases, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Resource, Stratigraphy
Appalachian Basin and Tight Gas Reservoirs Project

 The Appalachian Basin Tight Gas Reservoirs Project provides a collection of tools/applications to give the user the ability to search and gather information about gas and oil wells in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Data have been organized by play for the following plays: Berea/Murrysville, Venango, Bradford, Elk, Medina/"Clinton" and Tuscarora. The data have been provided by the geological surveys of these states.  

Tags: Appalachian Basin, Natural Gas, Oil, Resource, gas, oil, tight gas
Estimated Use of Water in the United States County-Level Data for 2000

 These data files present water-use estimates by county for the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands which support the State-level water-use estimates published in Circular 1268, Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000. The 2000 water-use data differ from the 1995 data in comprehensiveness of data collection, level of aggregation and release outlet, and category characteristics. Data files for 1985 and 1990 and for 1995 and 2005 are also available for download.  

Tags: Estimated water, Puerto Rico, Resource, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, Water, water, water use