U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey

MAPS SHOWING GEOLOGY, OIL AND GAS FIELDS, AND GEOLOGIC PROVINCES OF THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

Compiled By  Douglas W. Steinshouer1,  Jin Qiang2,  Peter J. McCabe3,  and Robert T. Ryder4
1Contractor to the U.S.G.S.  MS 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
2Dept. of Resources, University of Petroleum, Dongying, Shandong, 257062, P.R.C.
3U.S. Geological Survey MS 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
4U.S. Geological Survey MS 956, National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 22092

 
Open- File Report 97-479F

This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Any use of trade names is for descriptive purposes only, and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. government.

Portions of this database covering the coastline and country boundaries contain intellectual property of Environmental SystemsResearch Institute, Inc. (ESRI), and are used herein with permission.  End users are permitted to use these data for their own internal use, including any derivative work, but are prohibited from using and redistributing these data individually or in a derivative work to third parties.   Portions covering the geology of  the Far East contain intellectual property of  the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization  ©1990.  Portions covering the geology of  New Guinea, and Australia and vicinity contain intellectual property of  the Australian Geological Survey Organisation   ©1965 and 1967.  Portions covering the geology of New Zealand and vicinity contain intellectual property of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Limited   ©1971, all rights reserved.

 


 
GETTINGSTARTED
 

The digital data on this CD-ROM 
can be viewed in three different formats:

Adobe Acrobat  Portable Document Format (pdf)

ESRI ArcExplorer Projects

ESRI Arcview Project

 
 
The Adobe Acrobat file is suggested for slower computers.  It provides graphic images of the Maps Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Asia Pacific Region.  It also features the accompanying Preface, Introduction, Contact Information, Data Processing Steps and List of Geologic Provinces.  The maps can be zoomed and panned. The software needed to view this file is included on this disk.

The ESRI ArcExplorer projects present the data in a simple GIS format.  Each map constitutes an individual project that can be zoomed and panned.  In addition, the data layers can be queried.  The necessary software is included on this disk.

The ESRI Arcview project offers a more sophisticated GIS presentation of the data.  The maps can be zoomed and panned.  The cartographic symbols are more refined and the data tables can be queried.  The software must be purchased from a vendor.

 

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ADOBE ACROBAT PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (pdf)
 
If you do not have Acrobat Reader 3.0 installed on your computer,  you can install it from this disk.  Open the acroread directory.  There you will find Acrobat installation programs and instructions  for either 16 bit or 32 bit installation on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms.  Select the appropriate readme file for your operating system and follow the instructions for installation.

If you already have Acrobat Reader 3.0, you can open aspac.pdf in the  aspac directory.

For fastest performance, it is suggested that you copy the file to your hard drive. (Approximately 13 MB)

 

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ESRI ARCEXPLORER

You must have Windows 95/98/NT 
in order to access the ArcExplorer projects on this disk.
 

If you do not already have ArcExplorer 1.1 on your computer, you can open the aspac directory, go to explorer\arcexplr.
The installation program is aeclient.exe.

If you have ArcExplorer 1.1 on your computer, you can find the projects in the aspac\explorer directory.

There are three ArcExplorer projects on this disk:
 

fareast.AEP
seast.AEP
aus_nz.AEP
      The Far East 
     Southeast Asia
     Australia and New Zealand

You can access these projects either by double clicking on the icon of the project that you wish to view, or by starting ArcExplorer: opening FILE, OPEN PROJECT, and browsing to the desired project.

For fastest performance, it is suggested to copy the entire aspac\explorer directory to your hard drive (approximately 25 MB).  The directory is designed to be self-contained and requires no other files.

Click here to view the data directory for  aspac\explorer
 

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ESRI ARCVIEWPROJECT

You must have Arcview 3.x installed on your computer
to access the Arcview project created by U.S.G.S.

There are two versions of the Arcview project found on this disk.
The one found in in the directory aspac/views03 can be viewed on any platform where Arcview 3.x is already installed.  Some modifications to your system, explained below, are necessary.
The one found in the directory aspac\viewpc03 can be viewed on Windows 95/98/NT plaforms without any modification.
 

If your operating system is Windows 95/98/NT, you can access the project aspac.apr in the directory  aspac\viewpc03.  Click here to view data directory.

For faster performance, it is recommended that you copy the entire directory aspac\viewpc03 to your hard drive (approximately 25 MB).  This directory is designed to be self-contained and requires no other files.

If you have another operating system, you must define an environmental variable, AVDATA03, in order to access the project in the directory aspac/views03.  For a more comprehensive discussion click here.  To view data directory click here.

On a Macintosh platform modify the "startup" file in the Preferences folder of the System folder with: 
System.SetEnvVar ("AVDATA03", "OF97470F")
An example "startup" file, startup, can be found in the directory aspac/views03, which can be dragged into the system icon.

For faster performance, it is recommended that you copy the entire directory aspac/views03to your hard drive (approximately 25 MB).

Unix users will need to define AVDATA03 in the ".cshrc file."  An example file, reg3cshrc, can be found in the directory aspac/views03.

Windows 95/98 users can define AVDATA03 in the autoexec.bat file as follows: 
SET AVDATA03 = < CD-ROM drive letter>:
For instance if your CD-ROM drive is drive f on your computer, set this statement in your autoexec.bat: 
SET AVDATA03 = f:
You must restart your computer for this change to take effect.

Windows NT users can define AVDATA03 by mouse clicking to START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, SYSTEM, then ENVIRONMENT and defining AVDATA03 as the variable, and the CD-ROM drive letter followed by a colon as the value.

 
This Arcview project was developed in Arcview 3.0.  When opened in Arcview 3.1 there may be a message asking whether to upgrade to 3.1 tools.  It is suggested that the user respond no.  There will still be tools and buttons not intended in the original project, but they have no impact on the functionality of the project.

The interface has been simplified to make viewing easier.  Users wishing more functionality can create a new project with the shapefiles provided.  Shadesets containing geologic age color and rock type fill pattern are also provided in the etc directory with the project.

If a "segmentation violation" occurs when using the zoom or pan tools, it is an indication that the Univers Medium font is not present on your computer.  Suggested solutions are either to install the font, create a new project with the shapefiles and shadesets provided, or the copy the project and alter the avenue scripts to use a font that is present for labeling cities and geologic age.

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CONTACTINFORMATION

Inquiries about this CD-ROM or the World Energy Project's effort in the Asia Pacific Region should be addressed to:

        Peter J. McCabe (Coordinator, Asia Pacific region)
        U.S. Geological Survey MS 939
        Box 25046
        Denver Federal Center
        Denver, CO 80225

        Tel: 303-236-7550
        Email: pmccabe@usgs.gov

        or

        Robert T. Ryder
        U.S. Geological Survey MS 956
        National Center
        12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
        Reston, VA 22092

        Tel: 703-648-6492
        Email: rryder@usgs.gov

Inquiries about the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project should be addressed to:

        Thomas S. Ahlbrandt (Coordinator, World Energy Project)
        U.S. Geological Survey
        Box 25046
        Denver Federal Center
        Denver, CO 80225

        Tel: 303-236-5776
        Email: ahlbrandt@usgs.gov
 
 

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CONTENTS

            Getting Started

           Preface

           Introduction

           Data Processing Steps

           Data Directory

           Minimum System Requirements

           Primary References
 
 

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PREFACE

This is one of a series of products resulting from the World Energy Project of the U.S. Geological Survey.  Inquiries about this CD-ROM or the Project's effort in the Asia Pacific Region should be addressed to:

Peter J. McCabe (Coordinator, Asia Pacific region)
U.S. Geological Survey MS 939
Box 25046
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225

Tel: 303-236-7550
Email: pmccabe@usgs.gov

or

Robert T. Ryder
U.S. Geological Survey MS 956
National Center
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 22092

Tel: 703-648-6492
Email: rryder@usgs.gov

Inquiries about the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project should be addressed to:

Thomas S. Ahlbrandt (Coordinator, World Energy Project)
U.S. Geological Survey
Box 25046
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225

Tel: 303-236-5776
Email: ahlbrandt@usgs.gov

The authors of the CD were responsible for the following aspects of producing the maps:

Attribution of geologic outcrops: 
               Jin Qiang and Douglas Steinshouer

Designation of geologic provinces: 
               Peter McCabe, Robert Ryder, and Jin Qiang

GIS input and manipulation: 
               Douglas Steinshouer and Jin Qiang

Map Layout design: 
               Jin Qiang

CD-ROM implementation and design: 
               Douglas Steinshouer

Metadata: 
              Douglas Steinshouer

Coordination: 
              Peter McCabe

The authors gratefully acknowledge William S. Larson, U.S.G.S., Denver, CO,  for invaluable guidance and support in producing the Metadata and the CD-ROM design.
 
 

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INTRODUCTION

These digitally compiled maps include geology, geologic provinces, and oil and gas fields of the Asia Pacific Region.  The maps are part of a worldwide series of maps on CD-ROM released by the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project.  The goal of the project is to assess the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world and report these results by the year 2000.  For data management purposes, the world was divided into eight energy regions corresponding approximately to the economic regions of the world as defined by the U.S. Department of State.  The Asia Pacific Region (Region 3) includes Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, The People's Republic of China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, North and South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

Each region is divided into geologic provinces.  Each province has a set of geologic characteristics that distinguish it from surrounding provinces.  These characteristics may include the predominant lithologies, the age of the strata, and the structural style.  Some provinces include multiple genetically-related basins.  Geologic province boundaries are delineated using data from a number of geologic maps and other tectonic and geographic data (see References).  Offshore province boundaries are defined by the 2000 meter bathymetric contour.  Each province is assigned a unique number.  Because geologic trends are independent of political boundaries, some provinces overlap two regions.  Those provinces that lie entirely within the Asia Pacific Region begin with the number 3.  Those provinces that lie partly within another region may start with a 1, for the Former Soviet Union (Persits and others 1998) or an 8, for South Asia (Wandrey and Law, 1998).

The centerpoint locations of oil and gas fields are plotted based on the locations in the Petroconsultants International Data Corp. (1996) database with permission.   Selected provinces are currently being investigated, by petroleum system analysis, and assessments are being made of the undiscovered oil and gas resource potential of these provinces. Klett and others (1997) discuss the worldwide geologic provinces and their relative ranking in terms of total known petroleum volume.

Specific details of the data sources and map compilation are given in the metadata files on this CD-ROM.  Some stratigraphic units are combined to simplify the map and to ensure consistency across the region.  All rocks are colored by age.  Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks are not differentiated, whereas igneous rocks and their types are indicated by patterns superimposed on the appropriate age color.

These maps are compiled using  Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. (ESRI) ARC/INFO software.  Political boundaries and cartographic representations on this map are taken, with permission from ESRI's ArcWorld 1:3m digital coverage: they have no political significance and are displayed as general reference only.  Portions of this database covering the coastline and country boundaries contain intellectual property of ESRI. (© 1992 and 1996, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. All rights reserved.)
 
 

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DATA PROCESSING STEPS
 

The maps on this CD were digitally compiled and abstracted from the following maps:

Geological Map of South and East Asia, Third Edition, 1990
A. Ghose, D. Chatterjee, and J. Banerjee,
UNESCO, Commission for Geological Map of the World, 
Subcommission for South and East Asia
Scale 1:5,000,000
http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/index.html

Geological Map of the World: Australia and Oceania, 
Sheets 6,7,11, and 12, 1965
Bureau of Mineral Resources 
(now Australian Geological Survey Organisation)
Scale 1:5,000,000
http://www.agso.gov.au/

Geological Map of the World: Australia and Oceania, 
Sheets 2, 3, and 8, 1967
Bureau of Mineral Resources 
(now Australian Geological Survey Organisation)
Scale 1:5,000,000
http://www.agso.gov.au

Geological Map of the World: Australia and Oceania, 
Sheets 9 and 13, 1971
New Zealand Geological Survey
(Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Limited)
Scale 1:5,000,000
http://www.gns.cri.nz

The following process steps were taken:
 

        1.  Gray-scale scanned images of the source maps were registered  and rectified in Arc/Info.  In the case of the UNESCO maps, they were registered to a composite of Arcworld country boundaries (shorelines) and Arcworld water bodies projected to a Lambert projection with standard parallels of 40 and 10 degrees North, and a central meridian of 70 degrees East, with an average reported root mean square error of 600 meters.  In the case of the Australia and New Zealand maps they were registered to a grid of latitude and longitude lines generated as an arc coverage in Arc/Info and projected to the appropriate Lambert parameters for each map sheet, with an average reported root mean square error of 350 meters.

        2.  Geologic contacts were then digitized on screen in Arcedit using the scanned grey- scale images as a backdrop.  Labels were applied and attributed as the linework was digitized using special AML menus and scripts.  In the case of Australia and New Zealand,
the coverage being digitized was re-projected to match the source map sheet.  The original geologic attribution was generalized using reselect and calculate functions in Arcedit.

        3.  Because of contradictions between sources, the digitized coverages were then transformed with a series of piece-wise "rubber sheet" adjustments.  The composite Arcworld coverage was used for the transformation because it is derived from a readily obtainable standard compiled on a worldwide basis.  Selected points on shorelines and inland water bodies were the targets of the adjustment transformations.

        4.  The coverages comprising the three sheets in this Open-File Report were projected to Lambert projections felt to be optimum for presentation of these particular geographic regions.

        5.  The map sheets were produced in Arcplot using AML scripts.  The geologic legend was generated as a separate graphic file in Arcplot.  The Adobe Portable Document Format was created with postscript files generated in Arcplot.

        6. The ArcExplorer and Arcview projects were created with shapefiles produced from the Arc/Info coverages.  Avenue scripts were written to customize the Arcview project for ease of use and maximum performance with large data sets.
 
 

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  DATA DIRECTORIES
 

   covers       Arc/Info coverages

 explorer       ArcExplorer projects and data 
                                 Entire directory can be copied

   export  GIS data in Arc/info export format and
                                ascii text format

 metadata       Metadata for data files included on this disk

  permssn       Permissions to distribute data on this disk

    plots      Files to create plots of maps featured on this disk

 viewpc03       Arcview project for Windows/95/98/NT and data
                                 Entire directory can be copied  (25MB)

  views03       Arcview project for all platforms and data
                                Entire directory can be copied (25MB)

index.txt       Data Directory (DOS ascii text)

index.mac       Data Directory (Macintosh text)

index.iso       Data Directory (UNIX iso text)

aspac.PDF       Adobe Acrobat Portable Document; 
                                 text and maps,  Can be copied  (23MB) 
 
 

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TECHNICAL INFORMATION
 
 

Minimum System Requirements

Intel x86 based personal computer (386 minimum, 486, Pentium or Pentium Pro recommended), Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, Microsoft Windows 95/98,  Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0,  32 MB RAM minimum, 64 MB recommended, 30 MB hard disk space.

Macintosh computer with 68020 (Macintosh II series) or greater processor. Mac OS 7.0 or later,  4 MB  RAM, 30 MB hard disk space.

Sun SPARCstation, SunOS(TM) 4.1.3 or later, or Solaris (R) 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 operating system, OpenWindows(TM ) (version3.0 or later), Motif(TM) window manager (1.2.3 or later), OpenLook version 3.0, or Common Desktop Environment (C.D.E.) 1.0 and above, 12 MB of available hard disk space, 32 MB RAM.

HP workstation 9000 series workstation model 700 or 800, HP-UX(TM) 9.0.3 or later operating system, X Window System(TM), X11R5 with HP-VUE or CDE 1.0, 12 MB of  hard disk space, 32 MB RAM.

Silicon Graphics workstation, IRIX(TM) 5.3 or later operating system, 12 MB hard disk space, 32 MB RAM.

IBM RS/6000 workstation, AIX(R) 4.1 or later operating system, CDE 1.0 or Motif window manager, 12 MB hard disk space, 32 MB RAM.
 
 

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PRIMARY REFERENCES

Bureau of Mineral Resources, 1965, 
(now Australian Geological Survey Organisation)
Geological Map of the World: Australia and Oceania, 
Sheets 6, 7, 11, and 12;
scale 1:5,000,000, 
14 sheets

Bureau of Mineral Resources, 1967, 
(now Australian Geological Survey Organisation)
Geological Map of the World: Australia and Oceania, 
Sheets 2, 3,and 8; 
scale 1:5,000,000, 
14 sheets

Ghose, A., Chatterjee, D., and Banerjee, J. , 1990, 
Geological Map of South and East Asia, Third Edition;
UNESCO, Commission for Geological Map of the World, 
Subcommission for South and East Asia, 
scale 1:5,000,000, 
6 sheets.

Klett T.R., Ahlbrandt, T.S., Schmoker, J.W., and Dolton, G.L., 1997, 
Ranking of the World's oil and gas provinces by known petroleum volumes;
U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 97-463, 
one CD-ROM.

New Zealand Geological Survey, 1971,
(Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Limited)
Geological Map of the World: Australia and Oceania, 
Sheets 9 and 13, 
Scale 1:5,000,000
14 sheets
(http://www.ngs.cri.nz)

Palfreyman, W.D., 1984, 
Guide to the geology of Australia;
Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 181, 
111p.

Petroconsultants International Data Corp., 1996, 
Petroleum exploration and production database. 
(Database available from Petroconsultants International Data Corp.,
P.O. Box 740619, Houston, Texas 77274-0619).

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., 1992, 
ArcWorld Digital Map of the World;
1:3,000,000
 
 

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