Scientific data near [62.17030,-142.93460]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 9.5 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Valdez-Cordova	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Nabesna A-4	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Nabesna	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Nabesna-Chisana Rivers	hydrologic unit
190405	hydrologic accounting unit
Southwest Alaska	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
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
QTv	Igneous - Volcanic	Young volcanic rocks, undifferentiated
Trcnk	Sedimentary	Chitistone and Nizina Limestones and Kamishak Formation
Trn	Igneous - Volcanic	Nikolai and Goon Dip Greenstones and equivalent rocks
Twv	Igneous - Volcanic	Wrangell Lava

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
East Alaska Range - Nabesna	M-Dz	East Alaska Range - Nabesna 43452 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
Wrangell Mountains	M-D	Wrangell Mountains 4023 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Nabesna	M/R-D	Nabesna 2204 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-SC05	Cu-Ag quartz veins
AK-SC16	Kuroko massive sulfide
AK-SC23	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-SC33	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SC31	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SC21	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-SC28	Polymetallic vein
AK-SC32	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SC01	Basaltic Cu/Kennecott Cu
AK-SC29	Polymetallic vein
AK-SC18	Synorogenic-synvolcanic Ni-Cu
AK-SC09	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-SC22	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type

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
Wrangellia	Oceanic arc	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
AGG079	rock	igneous unspecified
AGG080	rock	sedimentary conglomerate
AGG081	rock	igneous intermediate
AGG082	rock	igneous unspecified
AGG090	sediment
AGG091	sediment
AGG092	sediment
BAL471	rock

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
7006034	1978-06-08	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
3006484	1978-06-08	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
AGG079	igneous	unspecified
AGG080	sedimentary	conglomerate
AGG081	igneous	intermediate
AGG082	igneous	unspecified
BAL471	unspecified

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
Unnamed (west of lower Nabesna Glacier)	Occurrence	FE CU
Sheephead	Prospect	CU AU FE
Unnamed Occurrence	Occurrence	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 (terminus of Nabesna Gla...	Inactive	Cu
Unnamed (west of lower Nabesna G...	Inactive	Cu;Fe
Sheephead	Inactive	Au;Cu;Fe

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
AGG090	stream/river	stream
AGG091	stream/river	stream
AGG092	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
Yukon-Tanana Upland	porphyry copper	Kluane Arc and Tertiary Kuskokwim Mountains volcanic-plutonic belt (continuation of Canadian Cordilleran continental arc); north of the Denali Fault
Western Alaska Range	porphyry copper	Cretaceous porphyry prospects along the Kahiltna Basin-Peninsula terrane boundary
Eastern Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains	porphyry copper	Cretaceous (115-105Ma) deposits and prospects along the Nutzotin Basin-Wrangellia terrane boundary; south of the Denali Fault
Skolai Arc - Eastern Alaska	porphyry copper	Late Paleozoic Skolai Arc of the Wrangellia terrane; south of the Denali Fault
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.