Scientific data near [68.21690,-156.29260]

Search area extends approximately 1.1 km east-west and 3.0 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
North Slope	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Howard Pass A-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Howard Pass	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Colville River	hydrologic unit
190603	hydrologic accounting unit
Southeast Alaska	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
National Petroleum Reserve In Alaska	Other
Other BLM	Type of land area
BLM	Federal land areas administered by BLM

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
Degn	Sedimentary	Noatak Sandstone
MDegk	Sedimentary	Kanayut Conglomerate and Noatak Sandstone, 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
Howard Pass and east half of Misheguk Mountain	M-D	Howard Pass and east half of Misheguk Mountain 15548 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-BR17	Zn-Pb-Ag veins
AK-BR21	Sediment-hosted Cu
AK-BR20	Sandstone hosted Pb-Zn
AK-BR13	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
Brooks-Northslope Mag	Passive margin	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A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.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 (west end of Koiyaktot M...	Inactive	Ag;Pb;Zn

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
Brooks Range	porphyry copper	Proterozoic, Devonian, or Cretaceous grantitic intrusions in the Brooks Range.
Chukotka	porphyry copper	Early to Late Cretaceous volcanic and intrusive rocks composing island-arc, continental-arc, and collisional magmatic belts associated with the Chukotka microcontinent.
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.