Scientific data near [38.96115,-80.33490]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Lewis	county
West Virginia	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Adrian	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Sutton	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Charleston	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
West Fork	hydrologic unit
Monongahela	hydrologic accounting unit
Monongahela	hydrologic subregion
Ohio	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
Conemaugh Group	WV	Pennsylvanian
Monongahela Group	WV	Pennsylvanian

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 West Virginia	M-D	Central West Virginia 7081 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of WV
Charleston	M/R-D	Charleston 2756 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of WV-OH

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
Strip Mine	polygon