Title
Data from: "Recovery Act: Geologic Characterization of the South Georgia Rift Basin for Source Proximal CO2 Storage"

Description
This data is used in the manuscript "New Insights on Continental Rifting in Eastern North America: Subsurface Extent and Significance of Jurassic Red Beds in the Southeastern U.S." The data consists of six SGY files and one README file associated with the methodology and documentation to allow for replication and verification of findings.

Abstract
Integration of 2-D seismic reflection profiles (2013) with previous seismic and well data from the Coastal Plain area of Georgia and South Carolina provide evidence for a newly-discovered stratigraphic section associated with the post-rift phase of the South Georgia Rift (SGR). Named after the town near the seismic acquisition site, the section is referred to as red beds of Hazlehurst (RbH) in this paper. The stratigraphic section can be mainly identified structurally and stratigraphically in reflection seismic profiles. It sits unconformably above the syn-rift Triassic basin strata or basement rocks and sits below the regional basal unconformity (“J”) of the Coastal Plain sequence. Due to the similar lithologies with the exposed Triassic basin red beds and sparse well penetrations, RbH has yet to be clearly documented. As a result, the areal extent of the underlying Triassic rift basins in the southeastern U.S. was overestimated. This contribution implies that the RbH 1) pinches out stratigraphically up dip of the Fall Line and thins down dip of the coastline, 2) could have a regional areal extent over 300,000 km2 along the north American margin before erosion, 3) is largely composed of undeformed sub-horizontal sedimentary red beds, and 4) provides age constraints for the rift-to-drift transition and a two-phased magmatism tectonic evolution model.

Data Description
survey: Recovery Act: Geologic Characterization of the South Georgia Rift Basin for Source Proximal CO2 Storage 
In the early 2011, seven 2-D seismic reflection profiles (SCO2) were collected to evaluate the CO2 sequestration potential in SGR basins in southern South Carolina. The SCO2 profiles were collected with 6 s record length and 2 milliseconds (ms) sample rate and four of them are able to reveal sedimentary and upper crustal geological features such as the “J” horizon, faults, dipping strata and basement contacts. Correlated with nearby well controls (CC#1, DOR-211, and COL-241), we interpreted the four SCO2 profiles (Seismic profile 11, 12, 13, and 14) of total ~130 km length to provide structural constraints in the area.
record_id: DOE funding number: DE-FE0001965
date: For the period: September 16, 2009 through September 30, 2014
latitude: Inbedded in the sgy files.
longitude: Inbedded in the sgy files.
georeference: No 
state: Georgia and South Carolina.
county: Coffee, Jeff Davis, Berkeley County.
collector: University of South Carolina (ESRI-SC). The integrated team members are Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of South Carolina – Columbia (USC-Columbia) the South Carolina Geological Survey, the Illinois State Geological Survey, Bay Geophysical, Inc., and Weatherford Laboratories.
Seismic source: 42,000 lbs peak force Litton Vibrators