Scientific data near [59.43000,-139.58000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 4.4 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Yakutat	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Yakutat B-5	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Yakutat	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle

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
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
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
Gulf of Alaska	M-Dz	Gulf of Alaska 30899 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of AK
Chugach-Yakutat	M-D	Chugach-Yakutat 5922 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Yakutat	M/R-D	Yakutat 820 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
Yakutat-Malaspina	Large igneous province	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
Situk Beach	Occurrence	AU FE PGE TI ZR

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A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.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
Situk Beach	Probably inactive	Au;Fe;PGE;Ti

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Situk Beach	Occurrence	Alaska, United States

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)
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)
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.