{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Sarah E Gelman", "hasEmail": "mailto:sgelman@usgs.gov"}, "description": "A 3D petroleum systems model requires that the temperature at the sediment surface be defined at each geological time step. Generally, surface temperature can be modeled from paleo-elevation or paleo-water depth history, as well as the paleo-latitude of the basin and global climate patterns through time. The PetroMod software, from which the 3D petroleum systems model was generated, uses the Sediment-Water Interface Temperature (SWIT) tool to help define these boundary conditions. In most time steps, the model assumes that paleo-water depth/elevation was flat and uniform across the basin. In these time steps, surface temperatures in the model do not vary across the basin and are determined by the paleo-latitude (taken at the center of the basin) and the global mean temperatures at sea level. In ten other time steps, however, the model considers variations in paleo-water depth. These ten cases are defined in ASCII grids that show variations in surface temperature, measured in degrees Fahrenheit, in response to paleo-water depth, paleo-latitude, and mean global temperature at the given time step. This is a child item of a larger data release titled \"Data release for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA\".", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N7O1OT", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6447fa6fd34ee8d4aded3b81.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_6447fa6fd34ee8d4aded3b81", "keyword": ["Bakken", "Cedar Creek Anticline", "Montana", "Nesson Anticline", "North Dakota", "Province 31", "South Dakota", "USGS:6447fa6fd34ee8d4aded3b81", "Williston Basin", "atmospheric and climatic processes", "geology", "geoscientificInformation", "paleogeography", "tectonic processes", "topography"], "modified": "2023-04-26T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-108.0000, 45.0000, -98.0000, 49.0000", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Surface temperature grids for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA"}