Overview
Overview of estimated in-place resources for the Green River Formation in Utah, Colorado. In-place shale oil resources in the Piceance Creek Basin in billions of barrels per township. Total is 1.007 trillion barrels. Click for a larger image. (Adapted from Pitman and others, 1989, table 1) |
The Green River Formation likely represents the largest body of oil-shale bearing rocks in the United States and is one of the largest in the world. USGS has conducted extensive research on this formation which is represented in these pages.
An extensive Green River Formation oil shale bibliography of more than 1300 bodies of work is available for download in ascii text format.
Use the tabs above to explore USGS online publications for green river formation. Currently, these are long lists and we will be providing methods to list publications by different types such as geologic maps, correlations, etc.
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
