prv4_2 (Geologic provinces of Europe including Turkey)

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    Title: prv4_2 (Geologic provinces of Europe including Turkey)
    Abstract:
    This coverage includes arcs, polygons and polygon labels that describe U.S. Geological Survey defined geologic provinces of Europe including Turkey. (Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and Vatican City.) 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. Offshore province boundaries are generally defined by the 2000 meter bathymetric contour, but where appropriate are defined by the 4000 meter bathymetric contour. In some cases province boundaries are delineated by political boundaries, as in the case of The United States and Canada, because United States petroleum resources were assessed separately by the U.S. Geological Survey. Provinces are classified as either Priority or Boutique. A priority province is one of 76 non-U.S. geologic provinces defined by the U.S. Geological Survey that together contain 95 percent of the world's non-U.S. known petroleum volume. All priority provinces were analyzed for undiscovered petroleum-resources. A boutique province is a geologic province, other than a priority province, as defined by the U.S. Geological Survey, considered for petroleum-resource assessment. Boutique provinces can be chosen for a variety of geologic, political, technical and geographic reasons. Resource-assessments are conducted by research scientists of the U.S Geological Survey's World Petroleum Assessment 2000 by means of a combination of Petroleum System analysis based on available geologic information, and statistical analysis of production and exploration information.

     
  1. How should this data set be cited?
    2. Douglas W. Steinshouer, Contractor to USGS, Denver, CO (comp.), 20010000, Provs4_2 (Geologic provinces of Europe including Turkey): U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO.
     
    This is part of the following larger work.
    Mark J. Pawlewicz, USGS, Denver, CO (comp.), Douglas W. Steinshouer, Contractor to USGS, Denver, CO (comp.), and Donald L. Gautier, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, 20000000, Open-file report 97-470I; "Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of Europe including Turkey": U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO. World Energy Data on CD-ROM Volume I, Europe including Turkey, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO.

    Online Links:

    Other_Citation_Details:
    Open File Report 97-470I is one of a series of small-scale geologic maps of the world being published on CD-ROM by the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project.
  2. What geographic area does the data set cover?
    3. West_Bounding_Coordinate: -18.2416
    East_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.3565
    North_Bounding_Coordinate: 72.6633
    South_Bounding_Coordinate: 32.3132
  3. What does it look like?
    4. prv4_2.gif (GIF)
    Graphic file of geologic provinces in Europe including Turkey
  4. Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?
    5. Calendar_Date: Jun-2000
    Currentness_Reference: Date of publication
  5. What is the general form of this data set?
    6. Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Arc/Info coverage
  6. How does the data set represent geographic features?
    1. How are geographic features stored in the data set?


      2. This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):

    2. What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?


      3. The map projection used is Lambert Conformal Conic.

      Projection parameters:
      Standard_Parallel: 30 Degrees North
      Standard_Parallel: 60 Degrees North
      Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 22 Degrees North
      Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: 12 Degrees East
      False_Easting: 0 meters
      False_Northing: 0 meters
      Planar coordinates are encoded using Coordinate pair
      Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 1 meter
      Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 1 meter
      Planar coordinates are specified in meters

      The horizontal datum used is North American Datum 1927.
      The ellipsoid used is CLARKE1866.
      The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378206.4.
      The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/294.98.
       
       

  7. How does the data set describe geographic features?
    8. prv4_2.pat
    Polygon Attribute Table (Source: None)
    Area
    Area of polygon (Source: Software computed)

    Range of values
    Minimum: 2893631187.76318
    Maximum: 2396911000000
    Perimeter
    Perimeter of polygon (Source: Software computed)

    Range of values
    Minimum: 263722.69252
    Maximum: 7631825.16165
    Prv4_2#
    Internal feature number (Source: Software computed)

    Range of values
    Minimum: 2
    Maximum: 84
    Prv4_2-id
    Feature identification number (Source: User Defined)

    Range of values
    Minimum: 19
    Maximum: 452
    Code
    Unique numeric identifier of geologic province. First digit refers to USGS energy region of the world. (Source: U.S. Geological Survey)

    Value Definition
    1004 Belorussian-Voronezh High 
    1011 Russian Craton Margin 
    1013 Ukrainian Shield 
    1051 Kola Monocline-Finnmark Platform 
    1103 Dobrogeo Foreland 
    1107 Black Sea Continental Slope 
    2030 Zagros Fold Belt 
    2031 Zagros Thrust Zone 
    2048 Pelagian Basin 
    2070 Mediterranean Basin 
    2072 Rif Basin 
    2075 Euphrates/Mardin 
    2076 Haleb 
    2079 Adana/Sivas 
    2081 Lesser Caucasus 
    2084 Kardiff/Menders Massif 
    4012 Central Barents Platform 
    4013 Barents Continental Slope 
    4014 Troms-Bjornoya Basin 
    4015 Hammerfest-Varanger Basin 
    4016 Baltic Shield-Norwegian Caledonides 
    4017 Vestford-Helgeland 
    4019 Faroes-Shetland-Orkney Basin 
    4020 Hatton-Rockall Basin 
    4021 Baltic Depression 
    4022 Fennoscandian Border-Danish-Polish Margin 
    4023 Horda-Norwegian-Danish Basin 
    4025 North Sea Graben 
    4026 Ireland-Scotland Platform 
    4027 Midland Valley-Forth Approaches Basin 
    4028 Mid-North Sea High 
    4030 Irish Sea 
    4033 German-Polish Basin 
    4035 Northwest German Basin 
    4036 Anglo-Dutch Basin 
    4037 London-Brabant Platform 
    4038 Munsterland Basin 
    4039 Southwestern German Basin 
    4040 Anglo-Paris Basin 
    4041 Amoricia 
    4043 Massif Central 
    4044 Pyrenean Foothills-Ebro Basin 
    4045 Aquitaine Basin 
    4046 Bohemia 
    4047 North Carpathian Basin 
    4048 Pannonian Basin 
    4049 Molasse Basin 
    4051 Alps 
    4052 Jura 
    4053 Trans-graben 
    4054 Bresse Depression 
    4055 Rhine Graben 
    4056 Lion-Camargue 
    4057 Transylvania 
    4058 Adriatic Basin 
    4059 Apulia Platform 
    4060 Po Basin 
    4061 Carpathian-Balkanian Basin 
    4062 Tuscany-Latium-Paola 
    4063 Dobrogean Orogen 
    4064 West Black Sea Basin 
    4066 Sicily 
    4067 Corsican-Sardinian Basins 
    4068 Provence Basin 
    4069 Tyrrhenian Basin 
    4071 Dinaric Alps 
    4072 Iberian Massif 
    4073 Galician Basin 
    4074 Lusitanian Basin 
    4075 Aegean 
    4076 Crete 
    4077 Alentejo-Guadalquivir Basin 
    4082 Tajo-Duero Basin 
    4083 Iberic Cordillera 
    4088 Andalucia 
    Name
    Name of geologic province (Source: U.S. Geological Survey; T. R. Klett and others, 1997.)


    Character field

    Type
    Type of province (Source: User Defined)

    Value Definition
    b Boutique province - Geologic province considered by U.S. Geological Survey for petroleum-resource assessment by a variety of geologic, political, technical and geographic criteria. 
    p Priority province - One of 76 non-U.S. geologic provinces defined by the U.S. Geological Survey that together contain 95 percent of the world's non-U.S. known petroleum volume. 
    Reg
    Energy Region of the World (Source: U.S. Geological Survey)

    Value Definition
    1 Geologic province assigned to Region 1 - The Former Soviet Union 
    2 Geologic province assigned to Region 2 - The Middle East and North Africa 
    4 Geologic province assigned to Region 4 - Europe 
    O-g
    Principal hydrocarbon produced in geologic province. (Source: U.S. Geological Survey)

    Value Definition
    Oil Oil is principal hydrocarbon produced in geologic province. 
    Gas Gas is principal hydrocarbon produced in geologic province. 

     

Who produced the data set?

  1. Who are the originators of the data set? (may include formal authors, digital compilers, and editors)
  2. Who also contributed to the data set?
    3. Delineation of geologic provinces of Europe - Donald L. Gautier
    Delineation of geologic provinces of Turkey - Thomas S. Ahlbrandt
    Digital compilation of geologic provinces of the world - Lee M. Osmonson
    Editing and quality assurance of geologic provinces - Feliks M. Persits and Douglas W. Steinshouer
    Clipping and projection of geologic provinces of Europe including Turkey - Douglas W. Steinshouer
    Documentation and metadata - Douglas W. Steinshouer
  3. To whom should users address questions about the data?
    4. Donald L. Gautier
    U.S. Geological Survey
    345 Middlefield Road, MS 975
    Menlo Park, CA 94025
    U.S.A.

    650.329.4909 (voice)
    650.329.4975 (FAX)
    gautier@usgs.gov

    Hours_of_Service: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm PST

Why was the data set created?

To delineate geologic province boundaries in Open File Report 97-470I Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of Europe including Turkey, which is being compiled as a small scale geologic reference for the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. This coverage is used to produce a map and an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document file of the map, to be published on CD-ROM. 

How was the data set created?

  1. From what previous works were the data drawn?
    2. DDS60 (source 1 of 2)
    Lee M. Osmonson, USGS, CO (comp.), Feliks M. Persits, Contractor to USGS, Denver, CO (comp.), Douglas W. Steinshouer, Contractor to USGS, Denver, CO (comp.), and Timothy R. Klett, USGS, Denver, CO (comp.) and others, 20000600, wrld_prv (Geologic Provinces of the World): U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO.
     
     
    This is part of the following larger work.
    U.S. Geological Survey, 20000600, USGS Digital Data Series DDS-60 "U.S. Geological Survey World Petroleum Assessment 2000 - Description and Results": U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series World Petroleum Assessment 2000 Digital Data Series (DDS) 60, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO.

    Online Links:

    Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM
    Source_Scale_Denominator: 5,000,000
    Source_Contribution:
    Arcs, polygons and polygon labels that describe U.S. Geological Survey defined geologic provinces of the world, and attached attribute data.
    Rank (source 2 of 2)
    Timothy R. Klett, USGS, Denver, CO, and others, 19970000, Open File Report 97-463 "Ranking of the World's Oil and Gas Provinces by Known Volumes": U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO.

    Online Links:

    Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM
    Source_Contribution: Names and code numbers of geologic provinces defined by USGS
  2. How were the data generated, processed, and modified?
    3. Date: Aug-2000 (process 1 of 5)
    Geologic provinces completely or partially contained within the country boundaries comprising Region 4 (Europe) were selected in Arcedit and put into a new coverage, provs4_2. Geologic provinces completely or partially contained within Turkey, European and Asian, were also placed into provs4_2. The coverage was cleaned and built with a fuzzy tolerance of 750 meters.


    Data sources produced in this process:

    Date: Aug-2000 (process 2 of 5)
    Coverage provs4_2 is projected to Lambert Conformal Conic projection, topology is cleaned and built.
    Date: Aug-2000 (process 3 of 5)
    Coverage provs4_2 is clipped to match extent of geologic age coverage used to produce map.
    Date: Aug-2000 (process 4 of 5)
    Assessment summary data is removed from Polygon Attribute Table of provs4_2 in ArcView to reduce the size of the file and to simplify it.
    Date: Feb-2002 (process 5 of 5)
    Province boundaries were adjusted to reflect geologic contacts in geologic age coverage, geo4_2

     

     

How reliable are the data; what problems remain in the data set?

  1. How well have the observations been checked?

    2. The attribute values have been reviewed. This is a composite coverage composed of geologic provinces defined by Regional Coordinators of the U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Project and others. There have been updates and corrections in spelling of the names of the provinces since they were first published in Open File Report 97-463 (Klett and others, 1997).

  2. How accurate are the geographic locations?

    3. It is not possible to calculate a definitive measure of the horizontal positional accuracy of this coverage because it is a composite data set compiled from a variety of sources using a variety of methodologies. The maximum possible accuracy is twice the fuzzy tolerance of 500 meters, or 1000 meters.

  3. How accurate are the heights or depths?

    4. N/A

  4. Where are the gaps in the data? What is missing?

    5. Geologic provinces are delineated by U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Project Regional Coordinators and others with an emphasis on the determination of petroleum systems. Methods may vary from one region to another. The coverage is updated. Spelling errors in province names are corrected. In some portions, province boundaries are adjusted to more closely match surface geology, where applicable. Some offshore province boundaries have been adjusted beyond the 2000 meter bathymetric contour to the 4000 meter bathymetric contour to accommodate undiscovered oil or gas fields in deeper waters.

  5. How consistent are the relationships among the observations, including topology?

    6. Polygon topology is present, each polygon has one unique label point, there are no dangles, polygons are bounded at extent of coverage.

How can someone get a copy of the data set?

Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
  1. Who distributes the data set? (Distributor 1 of 1)
    2. Central Energy Resources Team
    U.S. Geological Survey
    Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, MS 939
    Denver, CO 80225-0046
    U.S.A.

    303.236.1647 (voice)
    eteamdisks@usgs.gov

    Hours_of_Service: 8:00 am -4:00 pm MST
  2. What's the catalog number I need to order this data set?


    3. CD-ROM Open File Report 97-470I "Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of Europe including Turkey"

  3. What legal disclaimers am I supposed to read?
    4. Although data are processed on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the correctness of the data, or of the utility of the data in any computer system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
  4. How can I download or order the data?

Who is the metadata contact?

Dates:
Last modified: 30-Nov-2000

Last Reviewed: Dec-2000
Metadata contact:
David A. Ferderer
U.S. Geological Survey
Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, MS 939
Denver, CO 80225-0046
U.S.A.

303.236.3611 (voice)
303.236.8822 (FAX)
dferdere@usgs.gov

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm MST
Metadata standard:
FGDC CSDGM (FGDC-STD-001-1998)


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