Scientific data near [45.44000,-110.05000]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 6.3 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Sweet Grass	county
Montana	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Picket Pin Mountain	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Gardiner	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Bozeman	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Stillwater	hydrologic unit
Upper Yellowstone	hydrologic accounting unit
Upper Yellowstone	hydrologic subregion
Missouri	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Custer National Forest	National Forest
National Forest FS	Type of land area
FS	Federal land areas administered by FS

Geology of US states

Digital geologic maps of the US states with consistent lithology, age, GIS database structure, and format

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Unit	State	Lithology
Stillwater complex	MT	Archean
Pilgrim through Flathead Formation: Pilgrim, Park, Meagher, Wolsey, and Flathead Formations	MT	Cambrian

Airborne geophysical surveys

Aerial surveys of magnetic anomaly and gamma ray emission; older surveys were analog record which have been digitized, newer surveys collected data in digital form.

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ID	Data type	Description
Beartooth	M-Dz	Beartooth 1749 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of MT
Bozeman	M/R-D	Bozeman 4433 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of MT-WY
Stillwater 2000	M/EM-D	Stillwater 2000 1914 line km with spacing 0.20 km over parts of MT

The continental crust

Seventy-seven major components of the North American continent were delineated at a general scale (1:5,000,000); including the general composition, geological environment, and types of primary metals endowments that can be expected in each domain.

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Domain	Crust type	Region
Wyoming	Sialic protocontinent	Northern Rocky Mountains

National Geochemical Database: Rock

Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected and analyzed by the USGS. This dataset includes and supersedes rock data formerly released as "Geochemistry of igneous rocks in the US extracted from the PLUTO database"

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Sample ID	Rock type	Rock name
M172808	igneous	alaskite
M173848	igneous	alaskite
M182594	igneous	felsic
M182595	igneous	felsic
M182596	igneous	felsic
M182828	igneous	unknown
M187981	igneous	mafic
M187982	igneous	mafic

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Picket Pin	Occurrence	PGE_PT PGE_PD CU NI CO PGE_IR AU AS SB
Alaskite	Occurrence	PGE_PT PGE_PD CR CU NI
Picket Pin	Prospect	PGE

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Alaskite	Occurrence	Montana, United States
Picket Pin	Occurrence	Montana, United States
Monkey West	Occurrence	Montana, United States
Picket Pin	Occurrence	Montana, United States

National Geochronological Database

Radiometric ages of geological materials by K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, fission track, and U-Th-Pb dating methods. A revision of DDS-14 correcting locations and providing the data in more convenient formats.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Rock name
896	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Diabase
7151	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Diabase

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Northern Rocky Mountains	porphyry copper	Part of a continental margin arc that formed along the western margin of North America
Pacific Margin	porphyry copper	Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia.