Scientific data near [37.22520,-118.60380]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Inyo	county
California	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Mount Thompson	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Bishop	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Mariposa	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Crowley Lake	hydrologic unit
Mono-Owens Lakes	hydrologic accounting unit
Northern Mojave-Mono Lake	hydrologic subregion
California	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Inyo National Forest	National Forest
National Forest FS	Type of land area
FS	Federal land areas administered by FS

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
Mesozoic granitic rocks, unit 3 (Sierra Nevada, Death Valley area, Northern Mojave Desert and Transverse Ranges)	CA	Permian to Tertiary; most Mesozoic
Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 3 (Eastern Sierra Nevada)	CA	Late Proterozoic(?) to Mesozoic(?)

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
Eastern California	M-Dz	Eastern California 5724 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CA
Sierra Nevada '63 East	M-Dz	Sierra Nevada '63 East 2068 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CA
Mariposa	M/R-D	Mariposa 4416 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of CA-NV

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
GB01	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB14	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB07	Porphyry Cu	Mesozoic - 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

National Geochemical Database: Rock

Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected and analyzed by the USGS. This dataset includes and supersedes rock data formerly released as "Geochemistry of igneous rocks in the US extracted from the PLUTO database"

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Sample ID	Rock type	Rock name
EKC359
M166401	igneous	granodiorite

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Cardinal Gold Mining Company Claims	Past Producer	AU AG FE AS CU ZN
Cardinal	Past Producer	AU CU PB AG

National Geochronological Database

Radiometric ages of geological materials by K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, fission track, and U-Th-Pb dating methods. A revision of DDS-14 correcting locations and providing the data in more convenient formats.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Rock name
12974	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granodiorite
13139	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granodiorite
13140	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz monzonite
13310	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granodiorite

National Geochemical Database: Sediment

Geochemical analysis of sediment samples from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are of stream sediment in the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
EKC220

National Geochemical Database: Concentrate

Geochemistry of concentrates from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are from the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
EKC812		C

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
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

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
Borrow Pit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point	Cardinal Mine
Adit	point
Adit	point	Cardinal Mine
Tailings - Pond	polygon
Tailings - Pond	polygon
Tailings - Pond	polygon
Tailings - Pond	polygon