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Description: Uinta Piceance Basin stratigraphic column. Orange is the Green River System, dark purple is the Mesaverde System, dark green is the Ferron/Wasatch Plateau System, light green is the Mancos/Mowry System, and light purple is the Phosphoria System. Green circles represent significant oil production, open star-circles represent significant gas production, and "S"s represent source rocks.
Title: Uinta Piceance Basin stratigraphic column
Credit: The Uinta-Piceance Province - Introduction to a geologic assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources, USGS Digital Data Series DDS-69-B, page 8
Author: USGS Uinta-Piceance Assessment Team
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License: Public domain
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