Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
Whatcom | county |
Washington | state |
United States | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
Kendall | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Bellingham | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Victoria | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
Fraser | hydrologic unit |
Puget Sound | hydrologic accounting unit |
Puget Sound | hydrologic subregion |
Pacific Northwest | hydrologic region |
Unit | State | Lithology |
---|---|---|
Carboniferous-Permian sedimentary and volcanic rocks | WA | Devonian to Permian; some Jurassic |
Pre-Tertiary ultrabasic intrusive rocks | WA | Late-Jurassic |
Tertiary nonmarine rocks, undivided | WA | Tertiary; mostly Eocene |
ID | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
Puget Lowlands A | M-D | Puget Lowlands A 63464 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of WA |
Bellingham | M-D | Bellingham 2357 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of WA |
Twin Sisters | M-Dz | Twin Sisters 1673 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of WA |
Victoria | M/R-D | Victoria 1010 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of WA |
Puget Sound 1997 | M-D | Puget Sound 1997 69202 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of WA |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
---|---|---|
PC36 | Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein | Mesozoic |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Franciscan | Accretionary wedge | Western Cordillera |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Sumas Mountain Iron Deposit | Occurrence | FE CR NI |
Sumas Mountain Olivine Deposit | Occurrence | MG |
Sumas Mountain Iron Deposit | Prospect | FE |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Location |
---|---|---|
Nooksack Prospect | Occurrence | Washington, United States |
Sumas Mountain Iron Deposit | Occurrence | Washington, United States |
Nooksack Chromium | Occurrence | Washington, United States |
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 |
Intermontane Island-Arc | porphyry copper | Porphyry Cu systems associated with pre-accretionary Triassic and Jurassic calc-alkalic island arcs that formed offshore of western North America |
Intermontane Island-Arc Cu-Au | porphyry copper | Triassic and Jurassic alkalic igneous rocks of accreted island arcs that formed offshore of 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. |