Scientific data near [35.97048,-115.46625]

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
Cottonwood Pass	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Mesquite Lake	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Kingman	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
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area	National Conservation Area
National Conservation Area BLM	Type of land area
BLM	Federal land areas administered by BLM

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 - Limestone	NV	Mississippian
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone, dolomite, siltstone, sandstone, and shale	NV	Lower Permian and Pennsylvanian
Alluvium, undifferentiated	NV	Holocene and Pleistocene

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
Southern Nevada	M-D	Southern Nevada 7330 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV
Kingman	M/R-D	Kingman 8600 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AZ-NV-CA

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
SB23	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB02	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB19	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB08	Porphyry Cu	Tertiary
SB07	Porphyry Cu	Mesozoic
SB40	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic

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
Mine Shaft	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point