Scientific data near [37.86620,-79.14680]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Nelson	county
Virginia	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Montebello	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Buena Vista	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Roanoke	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Middle James-Buffalo	hydrologic unit
James	hydrologic accounting unit
Lower Chesapeake	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
Leucocratic Granulite and Gneiss	VA	Proterozoic Y
Megacrystic Charnockite	VA	Proterozoic Y

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
Roanoke Quad.	M-Dz	Roanoke Quad. 11265 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of VA
Roanoke	M/R-D	Roanoke 2784 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of VA

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
Laurentides	Passive margin	Southeastern Laurentia and Appalachians
SCAB	Extensional accretionary orogen	Southeastern Laurentia and Appalachians

Geochemical and mineralogical data for soils of the conterminous United States

Systematic geochemical and mineralogical survey of soil horizons analyzed using a consistent set of methods, sample spacing 1 per 1,600 sq km.

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Site ID	Land Cover	Secondary land cover
7324	Forested Upland	Mixed Forest