Scientific data near [42.49685,-76.45241]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 3.0 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Tompkins	county
New York	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Ithaca East	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Elmira	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Elmira	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Seneca	hydrologic unit
Oswego	hydrologic accounting unit
Southeastern Lake Ontario	hydrologic subregion
Great Lakes	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
Genesee Group	NY	Upper Devonian

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
Central New York '78	M-D	Central New York '78 9527 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of NY
Elmira	M/R-D	Elmira 2634 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of NY-PA

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
EC02	Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb	Devonian - Mississippian
EC04	Mississippi Valley, Appalachian Zn	Late Paleozoic

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
Shawnee	Lateral-extensional orogen	Southeastern Laurentia and Appalachians

Evaporite-related potash permissive tracts

Estimates of the number of undiscovered evaporite-related potash deposits

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Tract	Deposit Type
Salina	stratabound potash-bearing salt	Insufficient background information for assessment

Prospect- and mine-related features on USGS topographic maps

Symbols indicating mining-related features digitized from historical USGS topographic maps in the western part of the conterminous US. Includes prospect pits, mine shafts and adits, quarries, open-pit mines, tailings piles and ponds, gravel and borrow pit

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Feature ID	Feature type	Feature name
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated	point
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated	point