Scientific data near [45.25000,-110.27000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 3.2 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Park	county
Montana	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
The Needles	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Gardiner	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Bozeman	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Yellowstone	hydrologic unit
Upper Yellowstone	hydrologic accounting unit
Upper Yellowstone	hydrologic subregion
Missouri	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Gallatin 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
Quartzofeldspathic gneiss	MT	Archean
Snowy Range through Flathead Formation: Snowy Range, Pilgrim, Park, Meagher, Wolsey, and Flathead Formations; or Snowy Range, Hasmark, Silver Hill, and Flathead Formations	MT	Cambrian
Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup	MT	Tertiary
Dacite	MT	Tertiary

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

Estimates of undiscovered mineral resources

National Mineral Resource Assessment 1998: Estimates of the number of undiscovered mineral resources of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc within identified permissive tracts (geographic areas in which mineral deposits may form).

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Tract	Deposit Type	Mineralization age
NR07	Skarn Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
NR04	Skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
NR13	Polymetallic replacement	Mesozoic - Tertiary
NR11	Porphyry Cu (North America)	Eocene

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

Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
5041121	1979-08-20	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Geochemistry of water samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of water samples in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
1013113	1976-10-16	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1030037	1979-08-20	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.

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
W255072	metamorphic	skarn
W255097	metamorphic	skarn
W255098	metamorphic	skarn
W255099	metamorphic	skarn

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
Black Diamond	Prospect	CU AU FE MO NI
Holy Terror	Occurrence	AG
Charity	Prospect	AG
Baldy	Prospect	AU

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
Black Diamond	Occurrence	Montana, United States

National Geochemical Database: Sediment

Geochemical analysis of sediment samples from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are of stream sediment in the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
LBC935	stream/river	xcoord=29300.; ycoord=88600.; stream
LBC936	stream/river	xcoord=29300.; ycoord=88600.; stream

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.