Scientific data near [59.84430,-153.29020]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Kenai Peninsula	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Iliamna D-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Iliamna	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Tuxedni-Kamishak Bays	hydrologic unit
190206	hydrologic accounting unit
Northwest Alaska	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region

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
Jtk	Igneous - Volcanic	Talkeetna Formation
Jtk	Igneous - Volcanic	Talkeetna Formation
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided

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
Illiamna	M-D	Illiamna 9487 line km with spacing 1.60 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-SW17	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SW18	Zn-Pb skarn
AK-SW12	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-SW16	Polymetallic vein
AK-SW01	Basaltic Cu/Kennecott Cu
AK-SW09	Kuroko 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
Peninsular-Iliamna	Oceanic arc	Alaska

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A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.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 Marsh Creek)	Inactive	Cu

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
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.