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Nokleberg, Warren J. , West, Timothy D. , Dawson, Kenneth M. , Shpikerman, Vladimir I. , Bundtzen, Thomas K. , Parfenov, Leonid M. , Monger, James W.H. , Ratkin, Vladimir V. , Baranov, Boris V. , Byalobzhesky, Stanislauv G. , Diggles, Michael F. , Eremin, Roman A. , Fujita, Kazuya, Gordey, Steven P. , Gorodinskiy, Mary E. , Goryachev, Nikolai A. , Feeney, Tracey D. , Frolov, Yuri F. , Grantz, Arthur, Khanchuck, Alexander I. , Koch, Richard D. , Natalin, Boris A. , Natapov, Lev M. , Norton, Ian O. , William W. Patton, Jr., Plafker, George, Pozdeev, Anany I. , Rozenblum, Ilya S. , Scholl, David W. , Sokolov, Sergei D. , Sosunov, Gleb M. , Stone, David B. , Tabor, Rowland W. , Tsukanov, Nickolai V. , and Vallier, Tracy L. , 1998, Summary terrane, mineral deposit, and metallogenic belt maps of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-136.Online Links:
This is a vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
The map projection used is Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area.
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
The horizontal datum used is unknown.
The ellipsoid used is Clarke 1866.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6370997.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/294.98.
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Island | island in lake |
| lake | |
| river | |
| river-dbl | double line river |
| shoreline |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| INT_BDRY | International boundary |
| DIST_BDRY | District boundary |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | K |
| Maximum: | S |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 01 |
| Maximum: | 60 |
| Resolution: | 1 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 01 |
| Maximum: | 56 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 42.7261 |
| Maximum: | 72.2286 |
| Units: | decimal degrees |
| Resolution: | 0.0001 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | -179.7606 |
| Maximum: | 179.7706 |
| Units: | decimal degrees |
| Resolution: | 0.0001 |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| DEPO_MARINE | deposit related to marine felsic to mafic extrusive rocks |
| DEPO_EXTRUS | deposit related to subarial extrusive rocks |
| DEPO_STRAT_FIN | stratabound deposit in fine-grained clastic and siliceous sedimentary rocks |
| DEPO_STRATA | stratabound deposit in course clastic sedimentary rocks and subarial basalt |
| DEPO_CARBONATE | deposit in carbonate and chemical-sedimentary rocks |
| DEPO_VEIN | vein and replacement deposit |
| DEPO_ALK_VEIN | vein and replacement deposit related to calc-alkaline and alkaline intrusions |
| DEPO_ALK_SKARN | skarn and greisen deposit related to calc-alkaline and alkaline intrusions |
| DEPO_ALK_PORPH | porphyry and granitic pluton-hosted deposit related to calc-alkaline and alkaline intrusions |
| DEPO_MAFIC | deposit related to mafic and ultramafic rocks |
| DEPO_METAMORPH | deposit related to regionally metamorphosed rocks |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | L |
| Maximum: | S |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 01 |
| Maximum: | 60 |
| Resolution: | 1 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 01 |
| Maximum: | 09 |
| Resolution: | 1 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 3 |
| Maximum: | 29 |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| FLT_POST | postaccretion fault (major fault that formed after accretion; sense of displacement unknown) |
| FLT_POST_THRUST | postaccretion thrust fault (sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_POST_SS_D | postaccretion strike-slip fault (arrows denote relative strike-slip displacement, dextral) |
| FLT_POST_SS_S | postaccretion strike-slip fault (arrows denote relative strike-slip displacement, sinistral) |
| FLT_POST_NORM | postaccretion normal or extension fault (barb indicates downdropped block; locally superposed on older thrust fault) |
| FLT_BND | fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (sense and age of net displacement unknown) |
| FLT_BND_CON | fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (concealed beneath overlap assemblages or basinal deposits. Sense and age of net displacement unknown) |
| FLT_BND_THR | thrust or reverse fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_BND_THR_APP | thrust or reverse fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (approximate, sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_BND_THR_CON | thrust or reverse fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (concealed beneath overlap assemblages or basinal deposits. Sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_BND_SS_D | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (arrows denote relative displacement, dextral) |
| FLT_BND_SS_S | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (arrows denote relative displacement, sinistral) |
| FLT_BND_SS_APP | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (approximate, arrows denote relative displacement) |
| FLT_BND_SS_CON | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (concealed beneath overlap assemblages or basinal deposits. Arrows denote relative displacement) |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| CONTACT | contact (depositional or intrusive contact that is not a terrane boundary. Includes marginal contacts of overlap sedimentary and volcanic assemblages, basinal deposits, and plutons) |
| CONTACT_UNC | uncertain contact (depositional or intrusive contact that is not a terrane boundary. Includes marginal contacts of overlap sedimentary and volcanic assemblages, basinal deposits, and plutons) |
| FLT_POST | postaccretion fault (major fault that formed after accretion; sense of displacement unknown) |
| FLT_POST_THRUST | postaccretion thrust fault (sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_POST_SS_D | postaccretion strike-slip fault (arrows denote relative strike-slip displacement, dextral) |
| FLT_POST_SS_S | postaccretion strike-slip fault (arrows denote relative strike-slip displacement, sinistral) |
| FLT_POST_NORM | postaccretion normal or extension fault (barb indicates downdropped block; locally superposed on older thrust fault) |
| FLT_BND_CON | fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (concealed beneath overlap assemblages or basinal deposits. Sense and age of net displacement unknown) |
| FLT_BND_THR | thrust or reverse fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_BND_THR_APP | thrust or reverse fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (approximate, sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_BND_THR_CON | thrust or reverse fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (concealed beneath overlap assemblages or basinal deposits. Sawteeth point toward upper plate) |
| FLT_BND_SS_D | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (arrows denote relative displacement, dextral) |
| FLT_BND_SS_S | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (arrows denote relative displacement, sinistral) |
| FLT_BND_SS_APP | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (approximate, arrows denote relative displacement) |
| FLT_BND_SS_CON | strike-slip fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (concealed beneath overlap assemblages or basinal deposits. Arrows denote relative displacement) |
| FLT_BND_NORM | normal or extension fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (barb indicates downdropped block; locally superposed on older thrust fault) |
| FLT_BND_NORM_APP | normal or extension fault bounding terrane or oceanic plate (approximate, barb indicates downdropped block; locally superposed on older thrust fault) |
| SPREAD_CTR | active or extinct oceanic spreading ridge |
| SPREAD_CTR_CON | active or extinct oceanic spreading ridge (approximately located or concealed beneath younger deposits) |
| MAGNETIC_LIN | selected ocean floor magnetic lineation |
| BASIN | minor offshore Mesozoic or Cenozoic basin (thickness greater than about 2 or 3 km) |
| SEAMOUNT | large seamount or oceanic plateau |
| FRACTUR_ZONE | oceanic fracture zone |
| FRACTUR_ZONE_CON | oceanic fracture zone (approximately located) |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Seamount | large seamount or oceanic plateau |
| TEXT | Text symbol |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| NEATLINE | |
| Contact | contact (depositional or intrusive contact that is not a terrane boundary. Includes marginal contacts of overlap sedimentary and volcanic assemblages, basinal deposits, and plutons) |
| OTHER | Other lines |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| BELT_ACCRET | accretionary metallogenic belt: Au quartz vein, Cu-Ag quartz vein, and basaltic Cu deposits, and anatectic granitic-magmatism-related deposits |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| BELT_POSTACC | post-accretionary metallogenic belt: igneous arc-related deposits |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| BELT_PREACC_1 | pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: podiform Cr, gabbroic Ni-Cu, zoned mafic-ultramafic PGE deposits, hornblende peridotite Cu-Ni, anorthosite-hosted apatite Ti-Fe, serpentinite-hosted asbestos, and associated deposits |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| BELT_PREACC_3 | pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: felsic-magmatism-related deposits |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| BELT_PREACC_2 | pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: stratiform and stratibound sulfide, volcanogenic Mn and Fe bedded barite, Fe formation, carbonatite-related Na, Ta, and REE, and associated deposits |
We gratefully and proudly acknowledge that this CD-ROM publication is the combined work of many members of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Canada. The preparation of the digital data and the maps was accomplished under the auspices of the Cartography Section of the Geoscience Information Division (GID), Natural Resources Canada. We thank the many geologists who have worked with us for their valuable expertise and contributions in each region of Alaska, the Russian Far East, Hokkaido Island of Japan, the Canadian Cordillera, and the U.S.A. Pacific Northwest. In particular we thank J.N. Aleinikoff, Yu.V. Arkhipov, H.C. Berg, R.B. Blodgett, S.E. Box, D.A. Brew, M.D. Bulgakova, Ch. B. Borukayev, D.C. Bradley, Howard Brooks, J. Decker, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, H.L. Foster, V.V. Gaiduk, B.M. Gamble, V.V. Golozubov, D.G. Howell, D.L. Jones, S.M. Karl, S.V. Kovalenko, the late Lidiya I. Kovbas, W.C. McClelland, E.M. MacKevett, Jr., A.V. Makhinin, M.V. Martynyuk, M.L. Miller, T.P. Miller, L.Ph. Mishin, E.J. Moll-Stalcup, T.E. Moore, S.W. Nelson, V.S. Oxman, S.A. Palanjan, I.V. Panchenko, T.L. Pavlis, L.I. Popeko, A.V. Prokopiev, J.C. Reed, Jr., D.H. Richter, S.M. Roeske, V.I. Shpikerman, N.J. Silberling, T.E. Smith, A.B. Till, F.F. Tret'yakov, A.N. Vishnevskiy, I.G. Volkodav, Koji Wakita, W.K. Wallace, G.R. Winkler, L.P. Zonenshain, and Yu.P. Zmievsky for their many fruitful discussions. We thank Ch.B. Borykayev, the late William R. Greenwood, Donald Grybeck, B.A. Morgan III, I.Ya. Nekrasov, A.T. Ovenshine, P.P. Hearn, A.A. Sidorov, T.E. Smith, D.J. Templeman-Kluit, and W.H. White for their encouragement and support of the project.
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The major scientific goals and benefits of the project are to: (1) provide a comprehensive international data base on the mineral resources of the region that is the first, extensive knowledge available in English; (2) provide major new interpretations of the origin and crustal evolution of mineralizing systems and their host rocks, thereby enabling enhanced, broad-scale tectonic reconstructions and interpretations; and (3) promote trade and scientific and technical exchanges between North America and Eastern Asia. Data from the project are providing sound scientific data and interpretations for commercial firms, governmental agencies, universities, and individuals that are developing new ventures and studies in the project area, and for land-use planning studies that deal with both mineral potential issues.
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Barker, F., Miller, T.P., and Gehrels, G.E., 1994, Map showing major occurrences of accreted volcanic rocks and the pre-Cenozoic and some early Tertiary plutonic rocks of Alaska: The Geology of Alaska: The Geology of North America v. G1, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.
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This map was a collabarative effort of many different people, agencies, and countries, but has been throughly reviewed for consistency. Significant differences exist between the representation of onshore and offshore geology. These are: (1) the offshore part of the map is depicted in a more schematic fashion than the onshore part because of more limited data and because the offshore terranes and early Cenozoic and older overlap assemblages generally are obscured by extensive late Cenozoic sedimentary cover that is not shown unless thicker than two kilometres; (2) marginal contacts of offshore Cenozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary basins do not match contacts of onshore Cenozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary units because offshore basins are limited to those regions with sediment thicknesses greater than two kilometres; and (3) for simplicity, the major onshore Cenozoic sedimentary basins are generally not defined and described separately because the onshore part of the map is designed to emphasize terranes and overlap volcanic assemblages that are crucial for both for tectonic and metallogenic analyses published elsewhere
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| Data format: |
rox* geologic units flt* geologic faults and other lines placer placer districts lodedep mineral deposits blt* metallogenic belt data bltpr1pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: with podiform Cr, gabbroic Ni-Cu, zoned mafic-ultramafic PGE deposits, hornblende peridotite Cu-Ni, anorthosite-hosted apatite Ti-Fe, serpentinite-hosted asbestos, and associated deposits bltpr2pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: stratiform and stratibound sulfide, volcanogenic Mn and Fe bedded barite, Fe formation, carbonatite-related Na, Ta, and REE, and associated deposits bltpr3pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: felsic-magmatism-related deposits bltaccaccretionary metallogenic belt: Au quartz vein, Cu-Ag quartz vein, and basaltic Cu deposits, and anatectic granitic-magmatism-related deposits bltpospost-accretionary metallogenic belt: igneous arc-related deposits in format ArcInfo export (version 7.x) |
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Data are available in the stated projection and also in geographic (non-projected) coordinates. Directories are specified here because the files are not combined into packages, and there appear to be a number of unusual file types (.dbt, .asx, .bob, .fdl) as well as the standard .shp, .shx, and .dbf forms.
rox* geologic units flt* geologic faults and other lines placer placer districts lodedep mineral deposits blt* metallogenic belt data bltpr1pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: with podiform Cr, gabbroic Ni-Cu, zoned mafic-ultramafic PGE deposits, hornblende peridotite Cu-Ni, anorthosite-hosted apatite Ti-Fe, serpentinite-hosted asbestos, and associated deposits bltpr2pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: stratiform and stratibound sulfide, volcanogenic Mn and Fe bedded barite, Fe formation, carbonatite-related Na, Ta, and REE, and associated deposits bltpr3pre-accretionary metallogenic belt: felsic-magmatism-related deposits bltaccaccretionary metallogenic belt: Au quartz vein, Cu-Ag quartz vein, and basaltic Cu deposits, and anatectic granitic-magmatism-related deposits bltpospost-accretionary metallogenic belt: igneous arc-related deposits in format Shapefile (version 1.0) |
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