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 | |
Stargo Creek | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Mount Jefferson | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Tonopah | 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 |
Areas administered by US Federal agencies | |
Toiyabe National Forest | National Forest |
National Forest FS | Type of land area |
FS | Federal land areas administered by FS |
Unit | State | Lithology |
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Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Dolomite, sandstone, and limestone | NV | Middle and Lower Devonian |
Foreland Basin Assemblage - Siltstone, limestone, shale, and sandstone | NV | Lower Mississippian and Upper Devonian |
Slope Assemblage - Shale, graywacke, siltstone, chert, conglomerate, and limestone | NV | Lower Mississippian and Devonian |
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone, dolomite, and quartzite | NV | Middle Ordovician to Upper Cambrian |
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Quartzite | NV | Middle Ordovician |
Alluvium, undifferentiated | NV | Holocene and Pleistocene |
Intermediate andesite and intermediate flows and breccias | NV | lower Miocene and Oligocene |
Mafic phaneritic intrusive rocks | NV | Miocene (?) to Jurassic (?) |
Intermediate rhyolitic flows and shallow intrusive rocks | NV | lower Miocene and Oligocene |
ID | Data type | Description |
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Central Nevada - East | M-Dz | Central Nevada - East 4908 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV |
Central Nevada - West | M-Dz | Central Nevada - West 4908 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV |
Tonopah | M/R-D | Tonopah 4858 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
---|---|---|
GB05 | Skarn Au, truncated | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB30 | Sediment-hosted Au | Phanerozoic |
GB02 | Skarn Cu | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB08 | Porphyry Cu | Cretaceous |
GB09 | Porphyry Cu | Tertiary |
GB10 | Porphyry Cu | Jurassic |
GB15 | Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB18 | Distal disseminated Ag-Au | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Mojave | Lateral-extensional orogen | Central and Southwest |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
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5164057 | 1977-08-15 | Dry stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns). |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Location |
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Stargo Spring Area | Occurrence | Nevada, United States |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
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Cascade Arc | porphyry copper | U.S. part of a continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates beneath western North America |
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 |