Publications and Data

Dyni, J.R., 2008, Preliminary stratigraphic cross sections of oil shale in the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1220, 13 p., 2 plates.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1220/

Mercier, T.J., 2007, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, Oil Shale Geodatabase, version 1.0: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 181, data file.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/181/

Dennen, K.O., Johnson, C.A., Otter, M.L., Silva, S.R., and Wandless, G.A., 2006, delta 15N and non-carbonate delta 13C values for two petroleum source rock reference materials and a marine sediment reference material: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1071, 17 p.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1071/

Dyni, J.R., 2006, Geology and resources of some world oil-shale deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5294, 42 p.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5294/

Nelson, P.H., and Bird, K.J., 2005, Porosity-depth trends and regional uplift calculated from sonic logs, National Petroleum Reserve in: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5051, 28 p.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5051/

Donnell, J.R., 1997, Correlation of individual oil-shale beds in the upper part of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, and Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-714, 8 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr97714

Dyni, J.R., 1996, Sodium carbonate resources of the Green River Formation in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-729, 42 p.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/ofr-96-0729/ofr-96-0729.html

Pitman, J.K., 1996, Origin of primary and diagenetic carbonates in the lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene), Colorado and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2157, 17 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b2157

Johnson, R.C., and Nuccio, V.F., 1993, Surface vitrinite reflectance study of the Uinta-Piceance basins and adjacent areas, western Colorado, and eastern Utah; implications for the development of Laramide basins and uplifts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1787-DD, p. DD1-DD38.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1787DD

Remy, R.R., 1992, Stratigraphy of the Eocene part of the Green River Formation in the south-central part of the Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1787-BB, p. BB1-BB79, 1 plate in pocket.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1787BB

Roehler, H.W., 1992, North-south correlation of oil shale and trona beds in the Eocene Green River Formation, Green River Basin, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2192, 1 sheet.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2192

Roehler, H.W., 1991, East-west surface and subsurface correlations of the intertongued Wasatch and Green River Formation, Washakie Basin, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2164.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2164

Roehler, H.W., 1991, Identifications of oil-shale and trona beds and their geophysical log responses in the Energy Research and Development Administration Blacks Fork No. 1 Corehole, Eocene Green River Formation, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2158.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2158

Roehler, H.W., 1991, Chart showing the identification of oil shale and trona beds and their geophysical log responses in the Union Pacific Railroad Company El Paso Corehole No. 44-3, Eocene Green River Formation, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2188.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2188

Roehler, H.W., 1991, Northwest-southeast surface and subsurface correlations of the intertongued Eocene Wasatch and Green River Formations, Sand Wash Basin, northwest Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2166.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2166

Tuttle, M.L., ed., 1991, Geochemical, biogeochemical, and sedimentological studies of the Green River Formation, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1973 -A-G, 118 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1973AG

Dyni, J.R., 1990, New methodologies for assessment of U.S. oil-shale resources [abs.], in Carter, L. M. H., ed., U.S. Geological Survey research on energy resources--1990, Program and abstracts, Sixth V.E. McKelvey Forum on Mineral and Energy Resources, Houston, TX, Feb. 20-22, 1990: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1060, p. 28.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/cir/cir1060

Roehler, H.W., 1990, Correlation and oil-shale assays of measured sections of the LaClede Bed of the Laney Member of the Green River Formation in outcrops along the western margins of Washakie Basin, Wyoming, and Sand Wash Basin, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map I-2211, 2 sheets, 84 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/i/i2211

Roehler, H.W., 1989, Correlation of surface sections of the intertongued Eocene Wasatch and Green River Formations along the western margins of the greater Green River basin in Southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2103, 1 sheet.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2103

Roehler, H.W., 1989, Correlation of surface sections of the intertongued Eocene Wasatch and Green River formations, Great Divide Basin, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2102, 1 sheet.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2102

Roehler, H.W., 1989, Correlation of surface sections of the intertongued Eocene Wasatch and Green River Formations across the central part of the Sand Wash Basin, northwest Colorado, and eastern part of the Washakie Basin, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2106.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2106

Roehler, H.W., 1989, Correlation of surface sections of the intertongued Eocene Wasatch and Green River Formations along the western margins of the Sand Wash Basin, northwest Colorado, and Washakie Basin, southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2105.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2105

Roehler, H.W., 1989, Correlation of surface sections of the intertongued Eocene Wasatch and Green River Formations along the west flank of the Rock Springs Uplift in Southwest Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2104, 1 sheet.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf2104

O'Sullivan, R.B., and Cashion, W.B., 1988, Core description and related data from Atlantic Richfield Company Core Hole 2B Federal drilled in Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Creek basin, northwestern Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-554, 51 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr88554

Roehler, H.W., Hanley, J.H., and Honey, J.G., 1988, Geology and paleoecology of the Cottonwood Creek delta in the Eocene Tipton Tongue of the Green River Formation and a mammalian fauna from the Eocene Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, Southeast Washakie Basin, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1669-A-C, 47 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1669AC

Schmitt, L.J., 1987, Annotated bibliography of potential oil shales of the Western United States exclusive of the Green River Formation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-628, 21 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr87628

Smith, M.C., 1986, Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to July 1, 1986: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-466, 81 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr86466

Johnson, R.C., 1984, New names for units in the lower part of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1529-I, p. I1-I20.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1529I

Cashion, W.B., 1983, Descriptions of four stratigraphic sections of parts of the Green River and Uinta Formations in the eastern Uinta Basin, Uintah County, and Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-017, 44 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr8317

Higley, D.K., 1983, Distribution of bromine in bedded halite in the Green River Formation, southwestern Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-726, 52 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr83726

Tuttle, M.L., Ackerman, D.J., Dean, W.E., Briggs, P.H., and Bartel, A.J., 1983, Chemical and mineral composition data on oil shale and retorted oil-shale wastes from Rulison, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-378, 32 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr83378

Keighin, C.W., 1982, Characteristics and description of cores from the U.S. Geological Survey core hole CRU-1, Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation, east-central Uinta basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-528, 44p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr82528

Smith, M.C., and O'Sullivan, R.B., 1982, Results of core drilling in 1978 for oil shale in the Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Creek area of western Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-0476, 190 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr82476

Cashion, W.B., 1981, Results of core drilling in the Mahogany and some adjacent beds of Green River Formation, Winter Ridge area, southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-0175, 27 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr81175

Roehler, H.W., 1981, Correlation of Eocene rocks in measured sections in the southeast and west parts of the Rock Springs Coal Field, Wyoming; Sheet 1, Cross section A-A', southeast part of the Rock Springs coal field; Sheet 2, Cross B-B', west part of the Rock Springs coal f: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Chart OC-111, 2 sheets.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/oc/oc111

Donnell, J.R., and Smith, M.C., 1980, Acid extractable alumina and water -soluble sodium analyses and histograms of Eocene Green River Formation from U.S. Geological Survey corehole CR-1 and CR-2, Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-663, 50 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr80663

Dyni, J.R., 1979, Lithologic description of core from Sinclair Oil Company Skyline core hole 1, Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1222, 28 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr791222

Holmes, W.F., 1979, Maps showing generalized structure contours on the tops of the Wasatch and Green River Formations, geologic sections and contours of thickness of the Green River Formation, southeastern Uinta basin, Utah and Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1156, 2 maps.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/i/i1156

Johnson, R.C., 1978, Supplementary cross sections and structure contour maps to the preliminary geologic map of the Figure 4 Spring Quadrangle, Rio Blanco and Garfield Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-197, p. 78-81.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr78197

Hanley, J.H., 1977, Lithostratigraphic relations, nonmarine Mollusca, and depositional environments of a portion of the Green River and Wasatch Formations south of the Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, with appendices of measured stratigraphic sections: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-588, 233 p., 1 map.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr77588

Mullens, M.C., 1977, Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1977: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 754, 52 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir754

Desborough, G.A., 1976, Mineralogy of oil shale in the upper part of the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation in the eastern Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-381, 27 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr76381

Desborough, G.A., and Pitman, J.K., 1975, Interpretation of Fischer assay data for the evaluation of analcime-bearing oil shale in the Green River Formation, Colorado and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-219, 30 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr75219

Desborough, G.A., Mountjoy, W., and Frost, I.C., 1975, Influence of caustic and water leaching on analcime-bearing and analcime-free pyrolyzed oil shale from the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek basin, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-156, 28 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr75156

O'Sullivan, R.B., 1975, Coughs Creek Tongue; a new tongue of the Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Creek basin, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1395-G, p. Gl-G7.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1395G

Desborough, G.A., Pitman, J.K., and Huffman, C., Jr., 1974, Concentration and mineralogical residence of elements in rich oil shales of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek basin, Colorado, and the Uinta Basin, Utah; a preliminary report: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 74-77, 14 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr7477

Duncan, D.C., Hail, W.J., Jr., O'Sullivan, R.B., and Pipiringos, G.N., 1974, Four newly named tongues of Eocene Green River Formation, northern Piceance Creek basin, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1394-F, p. F1-F13.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1394F

Dyni, J.R., 1974, Nahcolite analyses of seven drill cores from the Green River Formation, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 74-1027, 45 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr741027

Dyni, J.R., 1974, Stratigraphy and nahcolite resources of the saline facies of the Green River Formation, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 74-56, 28 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr7456

Hail, W.J., Jr., 1974, Preliminary geologic map and section of the Barcus Creek quadrangle, Rio Blanco, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-619, scale 1:24,000.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf619

USGS, 1974, Oil Shale in the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 74-1112, 17 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr741112

Mullens, M.C., 1973, Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1973: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 675, 20 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir675

Donnell, J.R., 1972, Oil-shale assays on Grand Mesa, west-central Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-93, 1 p., 1 figure.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr7293

Hail, W.J., Jr., 1972, Preliminary geologic map of the Barcus Creek SE quadrangle, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Field Studies Map MF-347, scale 1:24,000.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/mf/mf347

Dyni, J.R., Beck, P.C., and Mountjoy, W., 1971, Nahcolite analyses of three drill cores from the saline facies of the Green River Formation in northwest Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 71-94, 13 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr7194

Bradley, W.H., and Eugster, H.P., 1969, Geochemistry and paleolimnology of the trona desposits and associated authigenic minerals of the Green River Formation of Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 496-B, 86 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp496B

Cashion, W.B., 1968, Maps showing structure, overburden, and thickness for a rich oil-shale sequence in the Green River Formation, east-central Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-33, 1 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr6833

Donnell, J.R., and Yeend, W.E., 1968, Geologic map of the North Mamm Peak quadrangle, Garfield County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-80, 1 map, scale 1:24,000.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr6880

Donnell, J.R., and Yeend, W.E., 1968, Geologic map of the Housetop Mountain quadrangle, Garfield and Mesa Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-79, 1 map, scale 1:24,000.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr6881

Donnell, J.R., and Yeend, W.E., 1968, Geologic map of the Hawxhurst Creek quadrangle, Garfield and Mesa counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-78, 1 map, superceded by MF - 2026.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr6878

Donnell, J.R., and Yeend, W.E., 1968, Geologic map of the South Mamm Peak quadrangle, Garfield and Mesa Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-81, 1 map, scale 1:24,000.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr6881

Donnell, J.R., and Yeend, W.E., 1968, Geologic map of the Grand Valley quadrangle, Garfield County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-77, 1 p., 1 map.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr6877

Griggs, R.L., 1968, Altered tuffaceous rocks of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-113, 38 p., 3 pls., 10 figs.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr68113

Yeend, W.E.D., J.R., 1968, Geologic map of the Rulison quadrangle, Garfield County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 68-335, 1 map.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr68335

Cashion, W.B., 1967, Geology and fuel resources of the Green River Formation, southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah-Colorado, in Geological Survey Research, 1964: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 548, 48 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp548

Duncan, D.C., and Swanson, V.E., 1965, Organic-rich shale of the United States and world land areas: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 523, 30 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir523

Bradley, W.H., 1964, Geology of the Green River Formation and associated Eocene rocks in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts of Colorado and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 496-A, 86 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp496A

Dane, C.H., 1955, Stratigraphic and facies relationships of the upper part of the Green River Formation and the lower part of the Uinta Formation in Duchsne, Uintah, and Wasatch Counties, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Chart OC-52.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/oc/oc52

Waldron, F.R., Donnell, J.R., and Wright, J.C., 1951, Geology of the DeBeque oil-shale area, Garfield and Mesa Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Map OM-114, 1 map, scale 1:62,500.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/om/om114

Donnell, J.R., Cashion, W.B., Zilbersher, W.M., Gibson, W.C., and Wolman, M.G., 1950, Stratigraphic sections of the oil-shale deposits in the western part of the Piceance Creek basin, Garfield and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 50-16.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr5016

Duncan, D.C., and Belser, Carl, 1950, Geology and oil shale resources of the eastern side of the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco and Garfield counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 50-12, 17 p., 2 maps.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr5012

Bradley, W.H., 1931, Origin and microfossils of the oil shale of the Green River Formation of Colorado and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 168, 58 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp168

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