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Digital subsurface data from previously published contoured maps of interval thicknesses in the Southern Midcontinent region

Metadata Updated: July 6, 2024

This digital data release contains previously published contours of thickness values of 23 named geological horizons, ranging in age from Cambrian to Tertiary. In alphabetical order, these horizons are the Atokan, Chesterian, Cretaceous, Desmoinesian, Guadalupian, Jurassic, Kinderhookian, Leonardian, Lower Hunton, Meramecian, Missourian, Morrowan, Ochoan, Osagean, Simpson-Viola, Sylvan-Cason, Tertiary, Timbered Hills-Arbuckle, Triassic, Upper Hunton, Virgillian, Wolfcampian, and Woodford-Chatanooga. The thicknesses were published in plates in the back matter of the Sedimentary Cover – North American Craton: U.S. volume of the larger Geological Society of America’s Decade of North American Geology effort. This volume, edited by L.L. Sloss, contains efforts from many geologists. In particular, the Southern Midcontinent plates were generated by K.S. Johnson, T.W. Amsden, R.E. Denison, S.P. Dutton, A.G. Goldstein, B. Rascoe, Jr., P.K Sutherland, and D.M. Thompson. In these thickness contours, spanning almost the entirety of the Phanerozoic, changes in basin configuration, uplift of source terranes, and resultant continental-scale depositional patterns can be witnessed.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date July 19, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 19, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
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