Scientific data near [55.04420,-162.38909]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 7.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Aleutians East	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Cold Bay A-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Cold Bay	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Cold Bay	hydrologic unit
190301	hydrologic accounting unit
Yukon	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge	National Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge FWS	Type of land area
FWS	Federal land areas administered by FWS

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
QTv	Igneous - Volcanic	Young volcanic rocks, undifferentiated
Thi	Igneous - Volcanic	Hypabyssal intrusions
Tuu	Sedimentary	Unga, Belkofski, and Unalaska Formations
w		Water

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-AP10	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-AP05	Epithermal vein, generic
AK-AP14	Polymetallic vein

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

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	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	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
Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands	porphyry copper	Tertiary felsic to intermediate composition intrusions of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands
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.