Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (north of the Arctic Circle) Assessment Units

• Main Author: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2008
• Subjects: Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal; North of the Arctic Circle; Energy Resources; Oil; Natural Gas; Resource Assessment; Earth Science; Natural Resources; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Geology; Assessment Unit; Schenk, C.J; geoscientificInformation; Oil shale resources; Oil sand 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; Alaska Passive Margin; Alaska Platform; Alaskan Fold- and Thrust- Belt; Amundsen Basin; Anisin-Novosibirsk Basins; Arctic Norwegian Sea; Baffin Bay Basin; Banks Island-Sverdrup Rim; Barents Platform North; Barents Platform South; Boothia-Cornwallis Uplift; Canada Basin; Canada Passive Margin; Canning-Mackenzie Deformed Margin; Devonian Reefs and Clastic Wedge; East Laptev Horsts; Eastern Franklinian Shelf; Eurekan Structures; Foredeep Basins; Greater Ungava Fault Zone; Jameson Land Basin; Jameson Land Basin Subvolcanic Extension; Khatanga Saddle; Kolguyev Terrace; Lena Prodelta; Lena-Anabar Basin Updip; Lincoln Sea Basin; Liverpool Land Basin; Lower Paleozoic Subsalt and Carbonate Platform; Main Basin Platform; Makarov Basin Margin; Nansen Basin; Nansen Basin Margin; North Barents Basin; North Chukchi-Wrangel Foreland; North Danmarkshavn Salt Basin; Northeast Canada Rifted Margin; Northeast Greenland Volcanic Province; Northern Priverkhoyansk Foredeep; Northern West Siberian Onshore Gas; Northwest Greenland Rifted Margin; Northwest Izhma-Pechora Depression; Northwest Mezen' Basin; Podvodnikov-Makarov Basins; Siberian Passive Margin; South Barents Basin and Ludlov Saddle; South Danmarkshavn Basin; South Kara Sea Offshore; Sukhan-Motorchun Riphean Rift; Sverdrup Mesozoic; Sverdrup Upper Paleozoic; Thetis Basin; Wandel Sea Basin; West Laptev Grabens; Western Barents Margin; Western Franklinian Shelf; oilgas; wep; cara; arctic; Anabar; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Cara; Cornwallis; Danmarkshavn; East Siberian Sea; Izhma; Jameson Land; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; Liverpool Land; Makarov Basin; Norwegian Sea; Tunguska; Wandel; Yenisey; Yukon; Zyryanka; amundsen basin; Baffin; Banks Island; canada basin; Chukchi; East Greenland; khatanga; laptev; Lincoln Sea; makarov basin; Mezen; Mezen'; Nansen; North Greenland; Novaya Zemlya; Pechora; sverdrup basin; Wandel Sea; Alaska
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The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the World Petroleum Resources Project. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown here as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies.