Scientific data near [38.67675,-115.54755]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Nye	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Blue Eagle Springs NE	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Duckwater	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Lund	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys	hydrologic unit
Central Nevada Desert Basins	hydrologic accounting unit
Central Nevada Desert Basins	hydrologic subregion
Great Basin	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
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
Nevada Coop Area 1	M-Dz	Nevada Coop Area 1 4127 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV
Lund	M/R-D	Lund 5006 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV-UT

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
Great Basin Tertiary	porphyry copper	Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated with postsubduction extension in the Great Basin
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
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	point
Gravel Pit	polygon