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November 03, 2009


Paleontologic Information and Data Available in ASCII Files for Downloading

Files listed in the table below are for the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region only.  Paleontologic Information and Data includes publicly releasable biostratigraphic and paleobathymetric summary information on active and expired fields and leases in the Gulf of Mexico.  The foraminiferal and coccolith biostratigraphic markers are placed in their proper chronologic, chronostratigraphic and chronozonal context as determined by the MMS Resource Evaluation Paleontologic Group (see MMS Biostratigraphic Chart of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Region, Jurassic to Quaternary).

Please read our disclaimer prior to downloading files.  Download a copy of the file you want by clicking on Fixed Text Format under the Download column of the table below.  The Fixed Format provides a defined length for each field within the file (see layouts).  Once you have downloaded the data and have decompressed the file using PKZIP or WinZip, the data can then be imported into a variety of database or spreadsheet packages to facilitate queries or reports.

For additional information, visit FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about importing files.

For a complete record layout click on the File Name of interest.

NOTE:  Internet files are scheduled for updates on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. If an update has not completed after 24 hours of the stated schedule, an email should be sent to GulfPublicInfo@mms.gov providing the webpage address for further investigation.  

**NOTE:  There were no newly released reports for the month of October.  Updates will be posted again the beginning of December.
File Name Last
Updated
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Download Zipped
(In Bytes)
Unzipped
(In Bytes)
Description

Releasable Paleo Reports
gepaldmp_Paleo.txt
gepaldmp_Header.txt

10-02-2009
09:31 AM

Fixed

1,932,768

20,152,426

Two files that include all released paleontologic summary reports and header data from January 1947 to last update

New Paleo Reports
gepaldmp_Paleo.txt
gepaldmp_Header.txt

10-02-2009
08:57 AM

Fixed

8,168

61,845

Two files that include newly released paleontologic summary reports and header data since previous update (September 1 through September 30, 2009)

List of New Paleo Reports
gepaldmp_newlist.txt

10-02-2009
08:58 AM

Fixed

704

2,424

Indexed list of newly released paleontologic summary reports since previous update (September 1 through September 30, 2009)


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