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sandiness values by calculating the average sandiness in 25 m thick slices above the base of the Paskapoo
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Topic category code:
geoscientificInformation
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West bound longitude:
-120
East bound longitude:
-112
South bound latitude:
50
North bound latitude:
55
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Description:
ground condition
Begin date:
2009-01-01
End date:
2011-01-01
Supplemental Information:
Language: In English; filename: Paskapoo_sandiness_tm.asc
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Feature catalogue description:
Included with dataset:
false
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Citation:
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Entity and Attribute Information
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Detailed Entity and Attribute information is provided with the dataset, formatted as Federal Geographic
Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata.
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Distribution:
Distributor:
Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(780) 638-4491
Facsimile:
(780) 422-1918
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
Alberta Energy Regulator
Delivery point:
4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
Electronic mail address:
AGS-Info@aer.ca
Hours of service:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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distributor
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URL:
https://static.ags.aer.ca/files/document/DIG/DIG_2012_0017.zip
Name:
Tabular Data
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Data quality:
Scope:
Scope:
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dataset
Report:
Absolute external positional accuracy:
Name of measure:
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
Measure description:
Evaluation method description:
We extracted the water-well lithologs from Environment and Sustainable Resource Development’s water-well
database. These records lack rigorous location information other than approximations of x-y coordinates
based on the Dominion Land Survey system, which we converted to geographic coordinates.
Result:
Quantitative result:
Value unit:
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Units system: xlink: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/
Value:
Report:
Absolute external positional accuracy:
Name of measure:
Vertical Positional Accuracy
Measure description:
Evaluation method description:
Because the water-well locations are imprecise in horizontal space, the elevations determined from the
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital elevation model are only approximations. Vertical accuracy is
estimated at +/- 10 m.
Result:
Quantitative result:
Value unit:
Base unit:
Identifier:
Units system: xlink: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/
Value:
Report:
Completeness commission:
Result:
unknown
Report:
Completeness omission:
Evaluation method description:
We significantly culled and screened the source data prior to calculating sand abundance in respective 25
m thick slices. Alberta Geological Survey Bulletin 66 documents this process. To facilitate ease of
computation, Log ASCII Standard (LAS) gamma-ray log data were converted into binary format using
ViewLog® software. To ensure consistency and quality of the gamma-ray log data, only those logs recorded
from 1986 and later were selected, this being about the time in which the well-logging industry
standardized tool calibration. If more than one gamma-ray log was run for an interval of interest, the
log that terminated nearest to the ground surface and with the most data was selected. Log data were
tested for completeness of records. We excluded null, incomplete, and unsuitable data (e.g., data
recorded in the cased part of the hole) from analysis.
Result:
unknown
Report:
Conceptual consistency:
Measure description:
All spatial data locations are unique as they are calculated and assigned by the 3-D block model. All null
data (-9999) were excluded from this dataset. Multiple coordinates with the same northing and easting
are present in the dataset but differentiated by their z values (HEIGHT or ELEV_MASL).
Result:
unknown
Report:
Non quantitative attribute accuracy:
Measure description:
The average measurement error for the dataset is '0,' indicating that the measurement is not biased.
However, for the water-well data, the sandiness measurement error is estimated at about ±45% (at two
standard deviations). For the gamma-ray dataset, the sandiness measurement error is estimated at about
±10% (at two standard deviations).
Result:
inapplicable
Lineage:
Lineage:
Statement:
We significantly culled and screened the source data prior to calculating sand abundance in respective 25
m thick slices. Alberta Geological Survey Bulletin 66 documents this process. To facilitate ease of
computation, Log ASCII Standard (LAS) gamma-ray log data were converted into binary format using
ViewLog® software. To ensure consistency and quality of the gamma-ray log data, only those logs recorded
from 1986 and later were selected, this being about the time in which the well-logging industry
standardized tool calibration. If more than one gamma-ray log was run for an interval of interest, the
log that terminated nearest to the ground surface and with the most data was selected. Log data were
tested for completeness of records. We excluded null, incomplete, and unsuitable data (e.g., data
recorded in the cased part of the hole) from analysis.
Process step:
Process step:
Description:
We extracted the water-well lithologs from Environment and Sustainable Resource Development’s
water-well database. These records lack rigorous location information other than approximations of
x-y coordinates based on the Dominion Land Survey system, which we converted to geographic
coordinates. To determine water-well collar elevations, we used ArcGIS software to extract values
from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital elevation model.
Alberta Geological Survey Bulletin 66 details how the data were collected, screened, culled and
compiled to generate this dataset.
The main data used to determine and evaluate sandiness of the Paskapoo Formation were borehole logs
from two major sources: water-well drillers’ lithologs and gamma-ray logs from the petroleum
exploration industry. We also used ground-resistivity datasets derived from airborne electromagnetic
surveys to verify modelled results of sandiness from borehole-log analyses. Expert-based decision
methods coupled with numerous digital and geostatistical analysis methods were applied to generate
estimates of sandiness within a borehole prior to 3-D modelling. With water-well drillers’ logs,
more than 1500 unique water-well drillers’ descriptor terms for geology were summarized into two
categories: sandy sediment (coded as ‘1’) and non-sandy, clayey sediment (coded as ‘0’).
For gamma-ray logs, all intervals with a <=75 API value were considered to be sand or permeable, based
on air-permeameter tests on core. Sand-abundance values were calculated in 25 m thick intervals
initially using two datums. We calculated the sandiness for 25 m thick slice intervals constructed
parallel to the modelled surface of the base of the Paskapoo Formation, up to a maximum height of
750 m above the base. The analysis of sand abundance in 25 m thick slice intervals from about 2,400
gamma-ray logs yielded 14,566 point values, each of which was assigned a depth value corresponding
to the midpoint of its respective slice above the base of the Paskapoo Formation.
For water-well lithologs, we calculated sandiness for 25 m thick slices constructed parallel to the
bedrock topography to a depth of 150 m below top of bedrock. As with the gamma-ray log analysis, the
percent-sand value (n) was assigned to the midpoint (z) of the height of the slice above the base of
the Paskapoo Formation. We repeated this process for about 33,500 water-well lithologs, creating a
dataset consisting of 48,162 three-dimensional x-y-z-n data, which, combined with the gamma-ray log
dataset, resulted in about 62,725 sand-abundance values as raw data for modelling the
three-dimensional distribution.
Date and time:
2011-01-01T00:00:00
Process step:
Process step:
Description:
We applied several geostatistical procedures to evaluate vertical and horizontal trends in the data
prior to modelling, including vertical-trend analysis and variography. Alberta Geological Survey
Bulletin 66 outlines the details of these procedures, which included
1) normal score transformation of the data,
2) variogram calculation and modelling,
3) cross-validation to check the kriging model,
4) simple kriging of the data, and
5) back-transformation to original units.
This is a standard geostatistical modelling workflow to estimate values of a variable (sandiness) at
unsampled locations and to assess the uncertainty in the estimates.
Both water-well and gamma-ray log datasets had the same shape of spatial structure, but we relied on
the spatial distribution of the gamma-ray log data as they had less randomness. We designed a
regional scale, 3-D block model with the following dimensions to model the sandiness values from the
borehole datasets: cell size 1000 m (x-axis) x 1000 m (y-axis) x 25 m (z-axis) for a total number of
cells of about 6,468,000.
Just slightly more than 10% of the cells (684,269) were populated with true values. We assigned the
remainder with a null value of ‘-9999’. Modelled results, which are the basis of this dataset, were
imported into Voxler™ 3-D software to visualize the results and assist in interpreting
hydrostratigraphic units.
Date and time:
2011-01-01T00:00:00
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Maintenance information:
Maintenance and update frequency:
unknown
Maintenance note:
This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the January 2013 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2
transform.
Metadata author:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(780) 638-4491
Facsimile:
(780) 422-1918
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
Alberta Energy Regulator
Delivery point:
4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
Electronic mail address:
AGS-Info@aer.ca
Hours of service:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Role:
Role code:
custodian
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