Scientific data near [36.13588,-114.99041]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Clark	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Frenchman Mountain	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Lake Mead	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Las Vegas	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Las Vegas Wash	hydrologic unit
Lower Colorado-Lake Mead	hydrologic accounting unit
Lower Colorado-Lake Mead	hydrologic subregion
Lower Colorado	hydrologic region

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
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Bioclastic limestone	NV	Pennsylvanian and Upper Mississippian
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Cherty limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone	NV	Middle to Lower Permian
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone, dolomite, siltstone, sandstone, and shale	NV	Lower Permian and Pennsylvanian
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Siltstone, sandstone, limestone, and dolomite	NV	Lower Permian, Leonardian and Wolfcampian
Tuffaceous sedimentary rocks	NV	middle Miocene to upper Oligocene
Cratonal Sequence - Marine siltstone, limestone, and conglomerate	NV	Middle (?) and Lower Triassic
Younger tuffaceous sedimentary rocks	NV	Pliocene and Miocene

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
Las Vegas '82	M-D	Las Vegas '82 9124 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV-AZ
Southern Nevada	M-D	Southern Nevada 7330 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV
Las Vegas	M/R-D	Las Vegas 5436 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV-AZ-CA

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
Mojave	Lateral-extensional orogen	Central and Southwest

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
Sierran Arc	porphyry copper	A composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America
Western U.S. and Sonoran Desert Jurassic Arc	porphyry copper	U.S. and Mexican parts of a composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America

Prospect- and mine-related features on USGS topographic maps

Symbols indicating mining-related features digitized from historical USGS topographic maps in the western part of the conterminous US. Includes prospect pits, mine shafts and adits, quarries, open-pit mines, tailings piles and ponds, gravel and borrow pit

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Feature ID	Feature type	Feature name
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point