Scientific data near [55.40611,-131.45833]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 7.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Ketchikan Gateway	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Ketchikan B-5	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Ketchikan	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Ketchikan	hydrologic unit
190101	hydrologic accounting unit
Arctic Slope	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Tongass 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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Map symbol	Lithology	Unit name
KJgn	Sedimentary	Gravina-Nuzotin unit
MzPzss	Metamorphic	Metasedimentary and minor metavolcanic rocks along the west side of the Coast plutonic complex of Brew and Morrell (1979b)
MzPzsv	Metamorphic	Metavolcanic rocks west of the Coast plutonic complex of Brew and Morrell (1979b)
Pm	Metamorphic	Marble along the west side of the Coast plutonic complex of Brew and Morrell (1979b)
Tgbe	Igneous - Plutonic	Younger gabbro of southeast Alaska
w		Water

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
Ketchikan '76	M-Dz	Ketchikan '76 8529 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Ketchikan	M/R-D	Ketchikan 1609 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK

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
AK-SE05	Sierran Kuroko mass. sulf.
AK-SE13	Polymetallic vein
AK-SE03	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins

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
Taku	Passive margin	Alaska

Alaska Geochemical Database, Version 2.0 (AGDB2)--including "best value" data compilations for rock, sediment, soil, mineral, and concentrate sample media

Geochemical analyses of rocks, mineral separates, bulk samples from lake and stream sediments, heavy mineral concentrates, and soils collected by USGS from 1962 to 2009.

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Lab ID	Sample medium	Description
CAS137	rock	metamorphic metapelite
CAS138	rock	igneous aplite
CAS139	rock	metamorphic metapelite
CAS140	rock	igneous aplite
CAS143	rock	igneous quartz diorite
CAS144	rock	metamorphic meta-argillite
CAS167	rock	metamorphic metabasalt
CAS168	rock	metamorphic metabasalt
CCA363	sediment
CCA364	sediment
CCA365	sediment
W189424	rock	igneous basalt
W189425	rock	metamorphic metabasalt
W189426	rock	metamorphic metabasalt

Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
7022097	1979-09-25	Wet natural-pond (or lake in Alaska) sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Geochemistry of water samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of water samples in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
3023730	1979-09-25	Natural-pond (or lake in Alaska) water sample acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.

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
CAS143	igneous	aplite
CAS144	metamorphic	meta-argillite
CAS167	igneous	basalt
CAS168	igneous	basalt
W189424	igneous	basalt
W189425	igneous	basalt
W189426	igneous	basalt

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
Alaska Lead and Silver	Past Producer	AG PB ZN CD CU
Alaska Lead & Silver	Past Producer	PB AG ZN
Alaska Lead & Silver Mill	Plant	PB ZN

Alaska Resource Data File

A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.

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Site	Status	Commodities
Alaska Lead and Silver; A.L.S.	Undetermined	Ag;Pb;Zn

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
CCA363	stream/river	stream
CCA364	stream/river	stream
CCA365	stream/river	stream

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
Late Continental Arc	porphyry copper	Porphyry Cu systems associated with predominantly calc-alkalic igneous rocks of post-accretionary continental magmatic arcs (Oligocene-Pliocene)
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
Insular Mixed Island- and Continental Arc	porphyry copper	Calc-alkalic igneous rocks of accreted Jurassic island-arc terranes
Cordilleran Continental Arc	porphyry copper	Porphyry Cu systems associated with predominantly calc-alkalic igneous rocks of post-accretionary continental magmatic arcs (Jurassic-Eocene)
Southeast Alaska Tertiary	porphyry copper	Tertiary subduction and postsubduction calc-alkalic plutons of southeast Alaska
Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands	porphyry copper	Tertiary felsic to intermediate composition intrusions of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands
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.