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Regional Cross Sections

A cross-section map used to identify where black shales are present and produce, or have the potential to produce, natural gas.
A cross-section map used to identify where black shales are present and produce, or have the potential to produce, natural gas.

Trippi, M.H., and Crangle, R.D., Jr., 2009, Log ASCII Standard (LAS) files for geophysical (gamma ray) wireline well logs and their application to geologic cross section C-C’ through the central Appalachian basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2009-1021, 13 p., 20 LAS files.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1021

Ryder, R.T., Crangle, R.D., Jr., Trippi, M.H., Swezey, C.S., Lentz, E.E., Rowan, E.L., and Hope, R.S., 2009, Geologic cross section D–D’ through the Appalachian basin from the Findlay arch, Sandusky County, Ohio, to the Valley and Ridge province, Hardy County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3067, 2 sheets, 52-p. pamphlet.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3067/

Ryder, R.T., Swezey, C.S., Crangle, R.D. Jr., and Trippi, M.H., 2008, Geologic Cross Section E-E' through the Appalachian Basin from the Findlay Arch, Wood County, Ohio, to the Valley and Ridge Province, Pendleton County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2985.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2985/

Ryder, R.T, 2008, Stratigraphic Framework of Cambrian and Ordovician Rocks in the Appalachian Basin from Sequatchie County, Tennessee, through Eastern Kentucky, to Mingo County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2994.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2994/

Crangle, R.D., 2007, Log ASCII Standard (LAS) files for geophysical wireline well logs and their application to geologic cross sections through the central Appalachian basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1142.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1142/

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Production and Depletion of Appalachian and Illinois Basin Coal Resources, Chapter H, in Pierce, B.S., and Dennen, K.O., eds., The National Coal Resource Assessment Overview, (2009):
USGS Professional Paper 1625-F, 22 p

Geologic map of the Shenandoah National Park region Virginia, (2009):
USGS Open-File Report 2009–1153

Assessment of Appalachian basin oil and gas resources: Utica-Lower Paleozoic Total Petroleum System, (2008):
USGS Open-File Report 2008–1287


RELATED LINKS

Geologic Society of America (GSA) website
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) website
Non-USGS Website

 

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