Scientific data near [35.04408,-117.36609]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
San Bernardino	county
California	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Lockhart	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Cuddeback Lake	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Trona	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Coyote-Cuddeback Lakes	hydrologic unit
Northern Mojave	hydrologic accounting unit
Northern Mojave-Mono Lake	hydrologic subregion
California	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
Precambrian rocks, undivided, unit 2 (Mojave Desert and Transverse Ranges)	CA	Early Proterozoic to Miocene
Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits	CA	Pleistocene to Holocene

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
Pilot Knob	M-D	Pilot Knob 9462 line km with spacing 0.53 km over parts of CA
Trona	M/R-D	Trona 5157 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of 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
SB06	Porphyry Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB27	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
SB32	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
SB31	Epithermal vein, Sado	Tertiary
SB36	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary

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
Open Pit Mine	point
Quarry	point