Labels:text | menu | screenshot | font | number OCR: National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project: Geologic Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Black Warrior Basin Province, Alabama and Mississippi General Information The purpose of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Macintosh is included on this disc. See the ReadMe.txt or National Oil and Gas Assessment is to develop geologically 69_I_ReadMe.pdf file on this disc for further information. based hypotheses regarding the potential for additions to oil and gas reserves in priority areas of the United States. The USGS recently completed an assessment of undiscovered oil Macintosh OS PowerPC G3, G4, G5 processor and gas potential of the Cambrian-Ordovician carbonate Mac OS X v.10.2.8 or 10.3 rocks, the Chattanooga and Floyd Shales, and the Pottsville 128 MB of RAM, 110 MB of available hard disk space Formation coals in the Black Warrior Basin Province in 800 x 600 monitor resolution northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama in the Gulf Coast Region. The Cambrian-Ordovician carbonate Microsoft Windows rocks, the Chattanooga and Floyd Shales, and the Pottsville Intel Pentium-class processor Formation coals are important because of their potential for Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with SP1 natural gas resources. or SP2; Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP2 This assessment is based on geologic principles and uses 128 MB of RAM, 90 MB of available hard disk space the total petroleum system concept. The geologic elements of 800 x 600 monitor resolution a total petroleum system include hydrocarbon source rocks (source rock maturation, hydrocarbon generation and For system requirements for GIS data, see the ReadMe.txt or migration), reservoir rocks (sequence stratigraphy and 69_I_ReadMe.pdf on the CD. petrophysical properties), and hydrocarbon traps (trap formation and timing). The USGS used this geologic Getting Started framework to define two total petroleum systems and three To access the information on this CD, first install Acrobat assessment units. All three assessment units were Reader 7.0 from the Acrobat folder on the CD. Open the quantitatively assessed for undiscovered oil and gas OPEN_FIRST folder, and then open the PDF called resources. OPEN_FIRST.pdf. From this file, navigate to the ReadMe file, an Minimum System Requirements executive summary, a list of chapter titles (linked to their files), and the GIS data and metadata. Use of the CD-ROM requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, Cover photograph is courtesy of John Pashin, version 7.0. Acrobat Reader installer for Windows and for Alabama Geological Survey ISBN 978-141131775-8 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Secretary COMPACT disc U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Mark D. Myers, Director DATA STORAGE 9 781411 317758
