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Inventory of onshore petroleum seeps and stains in Greenland

A new inventory on onshore petroleum seeps and stains in Greenland. this new inventory has been developed to facilitate new activities. The classification includes the following features: (1) Oil seeps, (2) Gas seeps, (3) Mud diapirs, pingos and gas-rich springs, (4) Oil stains in volcanics, carbonates and sandstones, (5) Solid macroscopic bitumen, and (6) Fluids inclusions and other evidence of micro-seepage. The inventory comprises detailed information on localities, coordinates, and sample numbers together with description of features and geology including references to data, reports and publications. All information is summarized in either a mineralization or petroleum systems context. Petroleum seeps and stains have been reported from most Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic basins in Greenland where they add important information on petroleum systems, especially distribution and facies variation of source rocks, petroleum generation and later migration, accumulation, and degradation. The inventory is designed to be updated with additional localities and descriptions, and new organic geochemical data.

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Date (Revision)
2022-01-01
Identifier
dk.geus.seeps_and_stains / seeps_and_stains
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Point of contact
  Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) - Jørgen Bojesen-Koefoed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
  • Energy resources
Keywords
  • Petroleum seeps and stains
  • solid bitumens
  • Greenland
  • organic geochemistry
  • petroleum and minerals systems
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • Greenland
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Copyright
Use constraints
Copyright
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
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Conditions for Re-use of data http://pubs.geus.net/et_dokument
Spatial representation type
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Spatial representation type
Grid
Denominator
100000
Distance
100  m
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Location
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / https://epsg.io/32624
Geometric object type
Complex
Distribution format
  • Internet Services ( 0.1 )

Point of contact
  Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) - Tjerk Heijboer
OnLine resource
Publication ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Reference list

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Interactive map ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
inventory_onshore_petr_ ( OGC:WMS )

Inventory onshore petroleum seeps and stains

OnLine resource
Publication ( DOI )

Greenland Petroleum Seep and Stain Inventory

OnLine resource
Download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Petroleum seeps and stains dataset

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Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
This field has no significance
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No
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The inventory includes a systematic description of ~130 localities/small areas scattered all over Greenland. So far 52 localities from North Greenland are described, 23 in East and North-East Greenland , and 54 in West Greenland (11 on Svartenhuk Halvø, one on Qeqertarsuaq, three on Schades Øer, seven on Ubekendt Ejland, 24 on Nuussuaq, two on Hareøen and six on Disko), and two in South and Southwest Greenland.

More than 400 samples have so far been analysed geochemically or described by microscopy, a number that is steadily growing. This paper provides a general overview of classification, nomenclature, working process and content of the inventory, and an introduction to the regional distribution of petroleum seeps and stains in Greenland with general interpretations in a mineral and petroleum systems context.

File identifier
7422c656-dd80-4fdd-9e80-00ca70e1487d XML
Metadata language
English
Date stamp
2023-08-16T11:49:40
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003 / ISO 19139:2007
Point of contact
  Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) - Tjerk Heijboer
Denmark
 
 

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