### Maps Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields and Geologic Provinces of the Arabian Peninsula

By: Richard M. PollastroAmy S. KarshbaumRoland J. Viger

                            https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr97470B

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- Related Work:  **Open-File Report 97-463**
- Data Releases:                               - **Geologic Provinces of the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent areas**                            (html)
  - **Bedrock geology of the Arabian Peninsula and selected adjacent areas**                            (html) 
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#### Introduction

First posted July 1, 1998

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This digital map compilation, which includes geology, geologic provinces, and oil and gas fields of the Arabian Peninsula, is part of a map series of the world produced by the U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Project. The goal of the project is to produce a worldwide assessment of the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources and report these results by the year 2000. To assess the world's petroleum, a sequence of steps is being undertaken proceeding from defining geologic provinces of the world at a comparable scale, allocating oil and gas fields to these provinces, defining petroleum systems within these provinces, and ultimately assessing the undiscovered petroleum potential of selected provinces of the world. A more in-depth discussion of the geologic provinces and their relative ranking in terms of total known petroleum volume is given in USGS Open File Report 97-463 (see Klett and others, 1997).

#### Suggested Citation

Pollastro, R.M., Karshbaum, A.S., and Viger, R.J., 1999, Maps showing geology, oil and gas fields and geologic provinces of the Arabian Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-470-B, 14 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr97470B.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

ISSN: 0196-1497 (print)

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#### Table of Contents

- Introduction
- Selected References
- Geologic provinces in the Arabian peninsula, sorted by province name
- Geologic provinces in the Arabian peninsula, sorted by province code
- Map showing geologic provinces of the Arabian peninsula
- Map showing geology, oil and gas fields and geologic provinces of the Arabian peninsula

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