Digitized geological and geophysical data from the Po Plain and the northern Adriatic Sea (north Italy) collected from public sources.

This database comprises subsurface geological and geophysical data from the Po Plain and the northern Adriatic Sea (north Italy). We realized the database by collecting, revising, and digitizing data, originally in raster format, from public sources. The data have a common geographical system: WGS 84/UTM zone 32N; EPSG: 32632. We organized the database into two groups: “primitive data” and “derived data”. Primitive data are the result of the digitization of public data. We collected and digitized data from 160 deep wells, 52 geological cross-sections, and 8 geological maps. The database of the primitive data is formed by the main horizons reported in the geological cross-sections, the isobaths of the main geological surfaces represented in the geological maps, the well locations, comprised of their trajectory along depth, lithological and stratigraphical information, and geophysical logs from composite well logs. Well data include specific sets of well logs aimed at geological/mechanical characterization of the geological units (e.g., Spontaneous Potential log, Resistivity log, Gamma Ray log, and Sonic log). Derived data consist of two datasets: i) the primitive isobaths maps and geological cross-sections data that have been filtered and verified after a data accuracy analysis performed to unravel discrepancies in the interpretation of the subsurface geological horizons; ii) a set of regional surfaces of the main geological units of the Po Plain subsurface. These surfaces were generated by interpolating the filtered primitive data according to the lithostratigraphic architecture of the area and without considering the fault occurrence/displacements. Primitive and derived data are provided in delimited text file format organized according to the data type (i.e., well, geological cross-section, map, and gridded surface). The format and the organization of data are explained in the related “readme” file. Our database represents a collection of the main published works regarding the Po Plain. Detailed studies related to specific sectors of the Po Plain might not be present in our database. Furthermore, during the processing and revision of the collected data, some published subsurface data reconstruction might have not been included in the database. Further details about the data processing and organization are given in the related manuscript