Scientific data near [56.48944,-132.01833]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 4.0 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Petersburg B-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Petersburg	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Southeast Mainland	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
g	Unconsolidated	Glaciers
Pzgn	Metamorphic	Roof pendants of the Coast plutonic complex of Brew and Morrell (1979b)
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Tca	Igneous - Volcanic	Admiralty Island and Cenotaph Volcanics

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
Petersburg '78	M-D	Petersburg '78 13920 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Petersburg	M/R-D	Petersburg 1472 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Stikine - Groundhog Basin	M/EM-D	Stikine - Groundhog Basin 423 line km with spacing 0.40 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
CCY954	rock	metamorphic schist
CCY955	rock	metamorphic schist
CDF041	rock	metamorphic gneiss
CDF042	rock	metamorphic gneiss
CDF043	rock	metamorphic gneiss
CDF044	rock	metamorphic gneiss
D226388	rock	igneous granite

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
CDF041	metamorphic	gneiss
CDF042	metamorphic	gneiss
CDF043	metamorphic	gneiss
CDF044	metamorphic	gneiss
D226388	igneous	granite

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
Unnamed (on Nelson Glacier)	Probably inactive	Ag;Cu;Pb;Sn;Zn

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.