Scientific data near [47.54000,-120.63000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 3.3 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Chelan	county
Washington	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Leavenworth	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Chelan	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Wenatchee	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Wenatchee	hydrologic unit
Upper Columbia	hydrologic accounting unit
Upper Columbia	hydrologic subregion
Pacific Northwest	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	WA	Holocene
Paleocene-Cretaceous nonmarine rocks	WA	Eocene (see age coding)

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
Wenatchee 2011	M-D	Wenatchee 2011 23743 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of WA
Area F, Central Washington	M-D	Area F, Central Washington 14781 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of WA
Area B, Central Washington	M-D	Area B, Central Washington 4778 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of WA
Wenatchee	M/R-D	Wenatchee 2248 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of WA

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
PC04	Porphyry Cu (BC-AK)	Mesozoic - Tertiary
PC19	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
PC28	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
PC36	Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein	Mesozoic

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
Franciscan	Accretionary wedge	Western Cordillera

Asbestos mines, prospects, and occurrences in the US

Location and mineralogical characteristics of former mines, prospects, and occurrences of asbestos in the continental US. No asbestos producing mines are currently active. Data here are drawn from several previously published reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Mill Creek	occurrence	Chelan, WA

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
Mill Creek	Occurrence	ASB

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
Cordilleran Continental Arc	porphyry copper	Porphyry Cu systems associated with predominantly calc-alkalic igneous rocks of post-accretionary continental magmatic arcs (Jurassic-Eocene)
Pacific Margin	porphyry copper	Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia.