Geologic Provinces of the Circum-Arctic, 2008 (north of the Arctic Circle)

• Main Author: Feliks M. Persits, Contractor to USGS, Denver, CO (comp.)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2008
• Subjects: Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal; North of the Arctic Circle; Geologic province; Oil and gas province; Oil province; Gas province; Oil and gas resource assessment; Oil resource assessment; Gas resource assessment; Natural gas liquids resource assessment; geoscientificInformation; environment; economy; Oil shale resources; Oil sand resources; Coalbed methane resources; Natural gas resources; Economic geology; Canada; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Norway; Russia; Svalbard; United States; Amerasia Basin; Arctic Alaska; Barents Platform; Chukchi Borderland; East Barents Basin; East Greenland Rift Basins; East Siberian Sea Basin; Eurasia Basin; Franklinian Shelf; Hope Basin; Jan Mayen Microcontinent; Laptev Sea Shelf; Lena-Anabar Basin; Lena-Vilyui Basin; Lomonosov-Makarov; Long Strait; Mezen' Basin; North Chukchi-Wrangel Foreland Basin; North Greenland Sheared Margin; North Kara Basins and Platforms; Northwest Canada Interior Basin; Northwest Laptev Sea Shelf; Norwegian Margin; Novaya Zemlya Basins and Admiralty Arch; Sverdrup Basin; Timan-Pechora Basin; Tunguska Basin; Vilkitskii Basin; West Greenland-East Canada; West Siberian Basin; Yenisey-Khatanga Basin; Yukon Flats; Zyryanka Basin; oilgas; wep; cara; arctic; Anabar; Arctic; Cara; East Siberian Sea; Laptev Sea; Tunguska; Yenisey; Yukon; Zyryanka; Chukchi; East Greenland; khatanga; laptev; Mezen; Mezen'; North Greenland; Novaya Zemlya; Pechora; sverdrup basin; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/183b1aca-d89a-40a3-81af-883dcc98d3ee

This shapefile includes arcs and polygons that describe U.S. Geological Survey defined 33 geologic provinces of the Circum-Arctic (north of the Arctic Circle). Each province has a set of geologic characteristics distinguishing it from surrounding provinces. These characteristics may include the dominant lithologies, the age of the strata, and the structural style. Some provinces include multiple genetically-related basins. Resource-assessments are conducted by research scientists of the U.S Geological Survey's World Petroleum Resource Project by means of a combination of Total Petroleum System analysis based on available geologic information, and statistical analysis of production and exploration information. Total Petroleum Systems are defined in provinces considered for assessment analysis. Total Petroleum Systems are subdivided into Assessment Units. Assessment results from the analysis of assessment units and total petroleum systems are aggregated and allocated to geologic provinces. Summary results are presented as attributes of this shapefile`.