Metadata:
  Identification_Information:
    Citation:
      Citation_Information:
        Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
        Publication_Date: 1999
        Title: South America Province Boundaries (prov6_b and prov6_b.shp)
        Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital
        Series_Information:
          Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
          Issue_Identification: 97-470D
        Publication_Information:
          Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado
          Publisher: USGS Central Energy Team
        Larger_Work_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
            Publication_Date: 199908
            Title:
              Maps Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields,
              and Geologic Provinces of South America
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
              Issue_Identification: 97-470D
            Publication_Information:
              Publication_Place: Denver, CO, USA
              Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
            Other_Citation_Details:
              Open File Report 97-470D is one of a series of continental-
              scale geologic maps of the world being published on
              CD-ROM by the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project.
            Online_Linkage: http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/energy/WorldEnergy/WEnergy.html
    Description:
      Abstract:
        South America is part of Region 6 (Central and South
        America) for the World Energy Assessment.  South America
        was divided into 107 geologic provinces as background for
        prioritization and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas
        resources in petroleum provinces.  The boundaries of
        geologic provinces are required for the assessment as oil
        and gas data must be allocated to a geographic entity so
        that decisions can be made as to which provinces are
        priority for the assessment.  Many sources of geologic
        information were used to define the province boundaries in
        South America, and several versions of the map were
        reviewed. Of the 107 geologic provinces defined in South
        America, about 40 have had some oil and gas production
        to date.
      Purpose:
        The purpose of the geologic province boundary map is to
        allow us to allocate oil and gas field and well information to
        known geographic entities prior to prioritizing and assessing
        petroleum provinces of South America.  Once the
        provinces were defined, the total oil and gas production
        from the petroleum-bearing provinces of South America
        were compared to the rest of the world to determine which
        provinces in South America were priority for assessment.
    Time_Period_of_Content:
      Time_Period_Information:
        Single_Date/Time:
          Calendar_Date: 1999
      Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
    Status:
      Progress: Complete
      Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
    Spatial_Domain:
      Bounding_Coordinates:
        West_Bounding_Coordinate: -91.6722
        East_Bounding_Coordinate: -34.7925
        North_Bounding_Coordinate: 12.6311
        South_Bounding_Coordinate: -55.9022
    Keywords:
      Theme:
        Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
        Theme_Keyword: Oil and Gas Provinces
        Theme_Keyword: Geology
        Theme_Keyword: Oil
        Theme_Keyword: Gas
        Theme_Keyword: Geologic Province
        Theme_Keyword: Geologic Map
        Theme_Keyword: Oil and Gas Fields
      Theme:
        Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
        Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
      Place:
        Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Place_Keyword: South America
        Place_Keyword: Argentina
        Place_Keyword: Bolivia
        Place_Keyword: Brazil
        Place_Keyword: Chile
        Place_Keyword: Columbia
        Place_Keyword: Ecuador
        Place_Keyword: Faulkland Islands
        Place_Keyword: French Guiana
        Place_Keyword: Guyana
        Place_Keyword: Netherlands
        Place_Keyword: Netherlands Antilles
        Place_Keyword: Paraguay
        Place_Keyword: Peru
        Place_Keyword: Suriname
        Place_Keyword: Trinidad and Tobago
        Place_Keyword: Uruguay
        Place_Keyword: Venezuela
        Place_Keyword: AR
        Place_Keyword: BL
        Place_Keyword: BR
        Place_Keyword: CI
        Place_Keyword: CO
        Place_Keyword: EC
        Place_Keyword: GY
        Place_Keyword: NL
        Place_Keyword: PA
        Place_Keyword: PE
        Place_Keyword: NS
        Place_Keyword: TD
        Place_Keyword: UY
        Place_Keyword: VE
      Place:
        Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4, version 1.0
        Place_Keyword: LD30 = South America
    Access_Constraints: None
    Use_Constraints:
      Portions of this database covering coastline and
      country boundaries contain intellectual property of Environmental
      Systems Research Institute, Inc.(ESRI), and are used with their
      permission. End users are permitted to use these data sets for
      their own internal use, including derivative work, but are
      prohibited from using and redistributing these data
      individually or in a derivative work to third parties.  Please
      refer to the "ATTACHMENT B" file (attach_b.txt) in the prmssn
      directory of this CD-ROM for further information on ESRI's
      license agreement.  ESRI is a registered trademark in the
      United States and either a trademark or registered trademark
      in all other countries where it is used, and ArcExplorer,
      Arc/Info and Arcworld are trademarks of Environmental Systems
      Research, Inc.
    Point_of_Contact:
      Contact_Information:
        Contact_Person_Primary:
          Contact_Person: Christopher J. Schenk
          Contact_Organization: USGS
        Contact_Position: Geologist
        Contact_Address:
          Address_Type: mailing and physical address
          Address:
            U.S. Geological Survey
            MS939, Box 25046
          City: Denver
          State_or_Province: Colorado
          Postal_Code: 80225-0046
          Country: USA
        Contact_Voice_Telephone: (303) 236-5796
        Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: schenk@usgs.gov
  Data_Quality_Information:
    Attribute_Accuracy:
      Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
        The province attributes are province name (pname) and
        province number (pnum).  Province names were taken from
        published reports and reflect the most common local
        usage.  Province numbers were created for this report, and
        are used in the USGS assessment of South America.
    Logical_Consistency_Report:
      Many references from the literature, as well as reviews by
      local experts, were used to determine the placement of the
      geologic province boundaries mapped for this report.
      Although local differences exist in the placement of these
      boundaries, the boundaries in this report are the most
      common accepted boundaries based on the geology.
    Completeness_Report:
      The entire continent of South America was divided into
      provinces, such that no area was exempt from being
      included in a geologic province.  For provinces that extend
      offshore, the offshore province boundary ranged between
      2000m and 4000 m water depth, depending upon the
      geology of the offshore area.
    Positional_Accuracy:
      Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
        Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
          The geologic boundaries shown on this map were drawn
          7500000 scale version of the geologic map.  The horizontal
          accuracy of the boundaries should not be considered accurate at
          a scale larger than the scale of the source map.
    Lineage:
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Audemard, F.
            Originator: Lugo, J.
            Publication_Date: 1997
            Title:
              Petroleum geology of Venezuela: American Association of
              Petroleum Geologists, Short Course Notes, Dallas, Texas, April
              5-6, 1997, chapter paginated.
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          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1997
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        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Audemard and Lugo, 1997
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Bigarella, J.J.
            Publication_Date: 1973
            Title: Geology of the Amazonas and Parnaiba Basin, in Nairn
            Publication_Information:
              Publication_Place: New York
              Publisher: Plenum Press
            Larger_Work_Citation:
              Citation_Information:
                Originator: A.E.M. (ed.)
                Originator: Stehli, F.G. (ed.)
                Publication_Date: 1973
                Title: The ocean basins and margins; the south Atlantic
                Publication_Information:
                  Publication_Place: New York
                  Publisher: Plenum Press
                Other_Citation_Details: v. 1, p. 25-86
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          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1973
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Bigarella, 1973
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Cainelli, C.
            Originator: Mohriak, W.U.
            Publication_Date: 1998
            Title: Geology of Atlantic eastern Brazilian basins; Brazilian Geology, Part 2
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1998
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Cainelli and Mohriak, 1998
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Committee on the World Geologic Map
            Publication_Date: 1964
            Title:
              Geologic map of South America: Rio de Janiero, Brazil,
              2 sheets, 1:5000000 scale
            Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1964
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Committee on the World Geologic Map, 1964
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Jordan, T.E.
            Originator: Allmendinger, R.W.
            Publication_Date: 1986
            Title:
              The Sierras Pampaneas of Argentina: a modern analogue
              of Rocky Mountain foreland deformation
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: American Journal of Science
              Issue_Identification: v. 286, p. 737-764.
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1986
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Jordan and Allmendinger, 1986
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Kingston, J.
            Publication_Date: 1994
            Title: Undiscovered petroleum resources of South America
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
              Issue_Identification: 94-559
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1994
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Kingston 1994
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: McGettigan, C.K.
            Originator: Hunt, D.G.
            Publication_Date: 1996
            Title: Columbia continues to yield major oil, gas discoveries
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: Oil and Gas Journal
              Issue_Identification: July 15, 1996, p. 40-45.
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1996
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: McGettigan and Hunt, 1996
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Mordojovich, C.
            Publication_Date: 1981
            Title: Sedimentary basins of the Chilean Pacific offshore
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology
              Issue_Identification: v. 12, p. 732-749
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1981
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Mordojovich, 1981
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Ojeda, H.A.O.
            Publication_Date: 1982
            Title:
              Structural framework, stratigraphy, and evolution of
              Brazilian marginal basins
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin
              Issue_Identification: v. 66, no. 6, p. 732-749.
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        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1982
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Ojeda, 1982
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Tankard, A.J. (ed.)
            Originator: R. Surez Soruco (ed.)
            Originator: Welsink, H.J. (ed.)
            Publication_Date: 1995
            Title: Petroleum basins of South America
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir
              Issue_Identification: 62
        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1995
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        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Tankard et al. 1995
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Travis, R.B.
            Originator: Gonzales, G.
            Originator: Pardo, A.
            Publication_Date: 1975
            Title: Hydrocarbon potential of coastal basins of Peru
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir
              Issue_Identification: 25, p. 331-338.
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            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1975
          Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Travis et al. 1975
        Source_Contribution: Reference
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        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Urien, C.M.
            Originator: Zambrano, J.J.
            Publication_Date: 1973
            Title:
              The geology of the basins of the Argentine continental margin and
              Malvinas Plateau
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              Citation_Information:
                Originator: Nairn, A.E.M. (ed.)
                Originator: Stehli, F.G. (ed.)
                Publication_Date: 1973
                Title: The ocean basins and margins; the south Atlantic
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                  Publication_Place: New York
                  Publisher: Plenum Press
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              Calendar_Date: 1973
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      Source_Information:
        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Urien, C.M.
            Originator: Zambrano, J.J.
            Originator: Yrigoyen, M.R.
            Publication_Date: 1995
            Title: Petroleum basins of southern South America: a review
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              Citation_Information:
                Originator: Tankard, A.J. (ed.)
                Originator: R. Surez Soruco (ed.)
                Originator: Welsink, H.J. (ed.)
                Publication_Date: 1995
                Title: Petroleum basins of South America
                Series_Information:
                  Series_Name: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir
                  Issue_Identification: 62
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              Calendar_Date: 1995
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        Source_Contribution: Reference
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        Source_Citation:
          Citation_Information:
            Originator: Yrigoyen, M.R.
            Publication_Date: 1991
            Title: Energy resources map of the Circum-Pacific region; southeast quadrant
            Series_Information:
              Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Circum-Pacific Map Series
              Issue_Identification: CP-39
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        Type_of_Source_Media: paper
        Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
          Time_Period_Information:
            Single_Date/Time:
              Calendar_Date: 1991
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        Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Yrigoyen, 1991
        Source_Contribution: Reference
      Process_Step:
        Process_Description:
          The boundaries of the geologic provinces were inked on a
          mylar overlay of the geologic base map at a scale of
          7500000.  The boundary layer was scanned at 300 dpi
          using a large-format scanner to create a TIFF image file.
          The TIFF was converted into an Arc Grid, and then into an
          Arc Vector coverage and attributed with province name
          (pname) and province number (pnum).
        Process_Date: Unknown
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