Scientific data near [40.62140,-74.08620]

Search area extends approximately 0.6 km east-west and 0.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Richmond	county
New York	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
The Narrows	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Newark	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Newark	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Sandy Hook-Staten Island	hydrologic unit
Lower Hudson	hydrologic accounting unit
Lower Hudson-Long Island	hydrologic subregion
Mid Atlantic	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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Unit	State	Lithology
Raritan Formation	NY	Upper Cretaceous
Serpentinite	NY	Lower Ordovician

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
Newark	M/R-D	Newark 3975 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NJ-PA-NY

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
Piedmontia	Extensional accretionary orogen	Southeastern Laurentia and Appalachians

Asbestos mines, prospects, and occurrences in the US

Location and mineralogical characteristics of former mines, prospects, and occurrences of asbestos in the continental US. No asbestos producing mines are currently active. Data here are drawn from several previously published reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Staten Island occurrence	occurrence
Staten Island occurrence	occurrence

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
SA18 - Southern Appalachian Mountains	sediment-hosted stratabound copper	Triassic lacustrine carbonaceous mudstone intervals within sequences of continental sandstone and siltstones of the Newark Supergroup, Culpepper Basin