Greenland Petroleum Seep and Stain Inventory

This data product is a website. The page you are looking at is just the DOI reference to the website. The website can be found at Greenland Petroleum Seep and Stain Inventory. The inventory provides an overview over petroleum seeps and stains in Greenland. At present the inventory includes the following features: (1) Oil seeps, (2) Gas seeps, (3) Mud diapirs, pingos and gas-rich springs, (4) Oil stains in volcanic rocks, carbonates and sandstones, (5) Solid macroscopic bitumen, and (6) Fluid inclusions and other evidence of micro-seepage. The inventory comprises detailed information on samples and localities together with description of features and geology and includes references to data, reports and publications. All information is summarised in either a minerals 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, descriptions and new organic geochemical data.