Scientific data near [62.83000,-151.48000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 4.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Matanuska-Susitna	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Talkeetna D-3	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Talkeetna	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Yentna River	hydrologic unit
190205	hydrologic accounting unit
Northwest Alaska	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Denali National Park	National Park
National Park NPS	Type of land area
NPS	Federal land areas administered by NPS

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
JDmc	Sedimentary	Mystic structural complex, undivided
KPzum	Igneous - Plutonic	Dunite and serpentinite, undivided
Toegr	Igneous - Plutonic	Granitic rocks

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
Talkeetna-Anchorage	M-Dz	Talkeetna-Anchorage 28968 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
Talkeetna-Anchorage	M-Dz	Talkeetna-Anchorage 28968 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
Talkeetna	M/R-D	Talkeetna 2156 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-SC21	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-SC28	Polymetallic vein
AK-SC31	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SC02	Besshi massive sulfide

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
Farewell-McGrath	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
CBS330	sediment
CBS585	rock	igneous ultramafic

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
CBS585	igneous	ultramafic

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 Lacuna Glacier)	Occurrence	CR FE

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 Lacuna Glacier)	Inactive	Cr;Fe

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
Unnamed (near Lacuna Glacier)	Occurrence	Alaska, United States

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
CBS330	glacial debris/deposit

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
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.