Scientific data near [54.81680,-133.52040]

Search area extends approximately 1.1 km east-west and 1.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Dixon Entrance D-5	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Dixon Entrance	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Prince of Wales	hydrologic unit
190101	hydrologic accounting unit
Arctic Slope	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies

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
Kmgr	Igneous - Plutonic	Granitic rocks of central and southeast Alaska
SOd	Sedimentary	Descon Formation and other sedimentary and volcanic rocks of Prince of Wales Island
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
Dixon Entrance	M/R-D	Dixon Entrance 265 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK

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
Alexander	Oceanic arc	Alaska

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
Forrester Island	Occurrence	MO CU

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A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.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 (north of Wood Cove, For...	Inactive	Mo

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.