Scientific data near [61.17861,-147.66360]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 9.2 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
Anchorage A-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Anchorage	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Eastern Prince William Sound	hydrologic unit
190202	hydrologic accounting unit
Northwest 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
g	Unconsolidated	Glaciers
Kaf	Sedimentary	Chugach flysch

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
Chugach	M-D	Chugach 2743 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Anchorage	M/R-D	Anchorage 2172 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-SC12	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins, Chugach type
AK-SC25	Placer Au

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
Chugach	Accretionary wedge	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
CFF660	sediment
CFG995	rock	igneous unspecified
CFG996	rock	igneous unspecified
CFG997	rock	igneous unspecified
CFG998	rock	igneous unspecified
CFR115	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
LFJ656	rock	sedimentary unspecified

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
CFG995	igneous	unspecified
CFG996	igneous	unspecified
CFG997	igneous	unspecified
CFG998	igneous	unspecified
LFJ656	sedimentary	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 (near Yale Glacier)	Occurrence	AS SB
Dartmouth Glacier	Occurrence	AU AG
Unnamed (near Dartmouth Glacier)	Occurrence	AG AS AU

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 (near Dartmouth Glacier)	Inactive	Ag;As;Au
Unnamed (near Yale Glacier)	Inactive	As;Sb

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
CFF660	stream/river	stream

National Geochemical Database: Concentrate

Geochemistry of concentrates from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are from the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
CFR115	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
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.