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Twenty-two igneous and metamorphic rock samples were collected in a 20-km-long swath centered on the Alaska Highway between Tetlin Junction, Alaska, and the Canada border. Igneous and metamorphic rock samples were submitted to the Apatite to Zircon, Inc. laboratory (A2Z), where zircon U-Pb age analysis, using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), was performed by Paul O'Sullivan. The 15 felsic plutonic rock samples and one gabbro sample yield Cretaceous zircon U-Pb weighted-mean ages ranging from 95.7 Ma to 106.2 Ma. Zircons from a metadiorite yield a Triassic weighted-mean age of about 241.9 Ma. Metamorphic zircons from two samples with felsic igneous protoliths yield Mississippian...
Tags: Age Dates,
Alaska Highway Corridor,
Analyses and Sampling,
Bedrock,
Bedrock Geology, All tags...
Detrital Zircon,
Geochronology,
Geology,
Igneous Rocks,
Isotopes,
Metamorphic Rocks,
Nabesna Quadrangle,
Tanacross Quadrangle,
U-Pb,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
In 2006-2007, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) geologists traversed and collected rock samples from ridges on the north side of Granite Mountain in the Mount Hayes D-3 Quadrangle to supplement existing literature with additional details about the variations in texture, lithology and orientation of the 'Granite of Granite Mountain' (map unit grgm) described by Nokleberg and others (1992). The digital data files for this report provide station locations and observations recorded in the geologists' field notes. Outcrop observations describe fine- to medium-grained granodiorite and medium- to coarse-grained tonalite units which appear to be in contact with each other on the ridges north of...
Major-oxide, minor-oxide, and trace-element geochemical data from rocks collected in the Alaska Highway corridor, Mount Hayes, Tanacross, and Nabesna quadrangles, Alaska, in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010
Geologists from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) carried out geologic field surveys, including bedrock mapping and sampling, in the Alaska Highway Corridor from 2006 through 2010. The fieldwork provides basic information critical to building an understanding of Alaska's geology and is part of a broader, integrated program that includes airborne geophysical surveys, bedrock and surficial mapping, a mineral-resource assessment, a geologic-hazards assessment, and other geological studies. This publication contains descriptive, location, and analytical information for samples collected in the Mount Hayes, Tanacross, and Nabesna quadrangles, Alaska,...
Tags: Alaska Highway Corridor,
Analyses,
Analyses and Sampling,
Analytical Lab Results,
Analytical Results, All tags...
Bedrock,
Bedrock Geology,
Geochemical Data,
Geochemical Surveys,
Geochemistry,
Geology,
Major Oxides,
Sample Location,
Trace Elements,
Trace Geochemical,
Trace Metals,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) personnel collected rock samples while mapping the bedrock geology along a 12-mile-wide swath following the Alaska Highway between Delta Junction and the eastern edge of the Mount Hayes quadrangle near Dot Lake, Alaska. This mapping is one component of the multi-year DGGS project studying the geology, geohazards and resources along the proposed gas pipeline corridor from Delta Junction to the Canadian border. In 2006, we collected 10 samples for whole rock (major- and minor-oxides, and petrogenetically important trace-elements) analysis. In 2007, we collected 111 samples for whole rock analysis and 36 rock samples for geochemical trace-element analysis....
Tags: Alaska Highway Corridor,
Geochemical Data,
Geochemistry,
Gold,
Lake George, All tags...
Major Oxides,
Mount Hayes Quadrangle,
STATEMAP Project,
Tanana River,
Trace Elements,
Trace Geochemical,
Trace Metals,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
This report provides detailed (1:63,360-scale) mapping of portions of U.S. Geological Survey Circle B-2 (1955), B-3 (1955), B-4 (1952), C-2 (1955), C-3 (1955), and C-4 (1952) quadrangles. The area is part of the Circle mining district and adjacent to the Fairbanks mining district. This report includes detailed geologic, structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic data. Based on the resulting geologic maps, field investigations, and laboratory materials analyses, the project has also generated derivative maps of geologic construction materials and geologic hazards.
Tags: Aereal,
Aerial Photography,
Aeromagnetic Survey,
Age Dates,
Alaska, State of, All tags...
Alluvial Deposits,
Alluvium,
Amphibolite,
Ar-Ar,
Bedrock,
Bibliography,
Birch Creek,
C14,
Carbonates,
Circle Hot Springs,
Circle Mining District,
Circle Quadrangle,
Clastics,
Coal,
Colluvial Deposits,
Colluvium,
Conductivity Survey,
Conodonts,
Crooked Creek,
Electromagnetic Survey,
Fan,
Faulting,
Faults,
Fluvial,
Folding,
Fossils,
Geologic,
Geomorphology,
Glacial,
Glacial Deposits,
Glacial Drift,
Granite,
Hornblende,
Hornfels,
Igneous Rocks,
K-Ar,
Magnetite,
Major Oxides,
Mammoth Creek,
Mastodon Dome,
Metamorphic Grade,
Metamorphic Minerals,
Metamorphism,
Mineralogy,
Modal Analysis,
Petrography,
Plutonic,
Plutonic Hosted,
Porphyry,
Precious Metals,
Quartz,
Regional,
Regional Metamorphism,
Sample Location,
Sandstone,
Schist,
Sedimentary,
Structure,
Surficial,
Tectonics,
Terranes,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
This preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district was mapped at 1:63,360 scale. The report describes the geologic setting, structural geology, earthquake potential, economic geology and the description of bedrock units.
Tags: Alaska, State of,
Alluvial Deposits,
Colluvial Deposits,
Eolian,
Fairbanks, All tags...
Fairbanks Creek,
Fairbanks Mining District,
Geology,
Mining,
STATEMAP Project,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) develops in predictable geologic settings worldwide. Various geologic units throughout Alaska include rock types that could potentially host naturally occurring asbestos minerals. This report and digital data release show geologic map units throughout Alaska rated according to their interpreted potential to host NOA. To summarize locations of known asbestos occurrences, we searched the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS's) Alaska Resource Data File (http://ardf.wr.usgs.gov) and Mineral Resource Data System (http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineral-resources/mrds-ak.html) for references to asbestos in Alaska and compiled the resulting 62 documented asbestos occurrences. To better predict additional...
Tags: Alaska Statewide Maps,
Alaska Statewide Quadrangle,
Asbestos,
Construction Materials,
Derivative, All tags...
Engineering Geologic Map,
Historic Mine,
Mineral Localities,
Mineral Prospect,
Mountain Leather,
Tremolite,
Ultramafic,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
40Ar/39Ar data from plutonic and volcanic samples collected during preliminary mapping of the Tyonek D-6 and parts of Tyonek D-5, D-7 and C-6 quadrangles yield results indicating three discrete igneous events at about 55, 60 and 68 Ma. Igneous clasts from a boulder conglomerate retain Early Cretaceous ages.
In support of the proposed Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project, the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) developed a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based geologic compilation of published and unpublished maps for twelve, inch-to-mile (1:63,360-scale) quadrangles encompassing the proposed hydroelectric project footprint, including the anticipated reservoir and surrounding area. DGGS geologists reviewed and analyzed existing geologic mapping for quality and completeness, and the maps were converted for use in GIS. The conversion process included scanning and georeferencing the original hard-copy map documents, creating a geodatabase, digitizing the geologic data, assigning attributes, and...
Tags: Bedrock Geologic Map,
Bedrock Geology,
Generalized,
Geodatabase,
Geologic Map, All tags...
Geology,
Gis,
Healy Quadrangle,
Hydropower,
Project Report,
Regional,
Surficial,
Surficial Geologic Map,
Surficial Geology,
Susitna,
Susitna Dam,
Susitna North,
Susitna River,
Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project,
Talkeetna Mountains,
Talkeetna Mountains Quadrangle,
Unconsolidated Deposits,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
40Ar/39Ar data from seven plutonic samples and one metamorphic sample collected during mineral assessment studies in 1991 show that various rock units in the Selawik Hills plutonic complex were emplaced in the order syenite/monzonite (nonfoliated, 106.6 ± 0.8 Ma; foliated, 101.7 ± 0.7 Ma; both on hornblende), followed by nepheline syenite (103.7 ± 0.8 Ma on hornblende) and then quartz monzonite (100.4 ± 3.7 Ma on biotite). 40Ar/39Ar data from Granite Mountain hornblendes yielded ages slightly older, but overlapping, those from Selawik Hills. In this suite, the silica-undersaturated phase appears to be younger (105.7 ±0.8 Ma) than the silica-saturated phase(s) (106.8 ± 0.8 Ma and 107.1 ± 0.8 Ma).
Tags: 40Ar/39Ar,
Age Dates,
Analytical Results,
Ar-Ar,
Candle Quadrangle, All tags...
Geochronology,
Granite,
Granite Mountain,
Hornblende,
Igneous Rocks,
Plutonic Rocks,
Selawik Quadrangle, Fewer tags
During 2006 and 2007 the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys conducted reconnaissance interpretive mapping of permafrost in Alaska Highway Corridor Segment 1, which straddles the Alaska Highway through the Tanana River valley from Delta Junction to the eastern boundary of the Mt. Hayes Quadrangle. Primarily, we inferred the extent of permafrost and ice content by interpreting ~1:63,360-scale, false-color infrared aerial photographs taken in August 1980.
Tags: Alaska Highway Corridor,
Big Delta,
Big Delta Quadrangle,
Delta Junction,
Delta River, All tags...
Dot Lake,
Engineering Geology,
Gasline,
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Map,
Ice,
Lake George,
Mount Hayes Quadrangle,
Permafrost,
Pingos,
Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline,
Subsidence,
Tanana River,
Thaw Lakes,
Transportation Corridor, Fewer tags
40Ar/39Ar analyses of igneous rocks from the Alaska Highway corridor between Delta Junction and the Canada border show a range of Cretaceous ages from about 68 Ma to about 112 Ma. The 25 samples fall into two broad age groups. The younger group ranges from about 68 Ma to 73 Ma; the older group ranges from a minimum age of about 84 Ma to about 103 Ma. One sample, a mafic dike, yielded an older age of about 112 Ma.
Tags: 40Ar/39Ar,
Age Dates,
Alaska Highway Corridor,
Analyses and Sampling,
Analytical Lab Results, All tags...
Analytical Results,
Ar-Ar,
Bedrock,
Bedrock Geology,
Geochronology,
Geology,
Lab Methods,
Mount Hayes Quadrangle,
Nabesna Quadrangle,
Sample Location,
Tanacross Quadrangle,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
During 2006 and 2007 the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys conducted reconnaissance surficial-geologic mapping in segment 1 of the Alaska Highway corridor, which straddles the Alaska Highway through the Tanana River valley from Delta Junction to the eastern boundary of the Mt. Hayes Quadrangle. Surficial-geologic deposits were initially mapped by interpreting ~1:63,360-scale, false-color infrared aerial photographs taken in August 1980 and field verified in 2006-2007.
Tags: Age Dates,
Alaska Highway Corridor,
Alluvial Deposits,
Alluvial Fan,
Alluvium, All tags...
Big Delta,
Big Delta Quadrangle,
C14,
Colluvial Deposits,
Colluvium,
Delta Junction,
Delta River,
Depositional Environment,
Dot Lake,
Dunes,
Eolian,
Erosion,
Erratics,
Esker,
Faults,
Floodplain,
Floods,
Gasline,
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Map,
Geologic Materials,
Geomorphology,
Glacial Deposits,
Glacial Drift,
Glacial Geology,
Glacial Hazards,
Glacial Lake,
Glacial Processes,
Gravel,
Ice Contact Deposits,
Jokulhlaups,
Lake George,
Lake Level,
Landslide,
Measured Sections,
Mount Hayes Quadrangle,
Outburst Floods,
Outwash,
Paleoenvironment,
Paleosols,
Paludal,
Peat,
Permafrost,
Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline,
Radiocarbon Dating,
Rock Glaciers,
Sand,
Soil,
Soils,
Surficial,
Surficial Geology,
Talus,
Tanana River,
Terrace,
Thaw Lakes,
Transportation Corridor,
Unconsolidated Deposits,
Water Table, Fewer tags
The engineering-geologic map, on two sheets, is derived electronically from the surficial-geologic map of the initial segment of the proposed natural gas pipeline corridor through the upper Tanana valley (Reger and others, PIR 2008-3a) using Geographic Information System (GIS) software. Surficial-geologic units were initially identified by interpretation of false-color ~1:63,000-scale infrared aerial photographs taken in July 1978, August 1980, and August 1981 and locally verified by field checking in 2006 and 2007. The map shows the distribution of surficial-geologic and bedrock units grouped genetically with common properties that are typically significant for engineering applications.
Tags: Alaska Highway Corridor,
Alluvial Deposits,
Avalanche,
Big Delta,
Big Delta Quadrangle, All tags...
Colluvial Deposits,
Construction Materials,
Crushed Gravel,
Crushed Rock,
Delta Junction,
Delta River,
Dot Lake,
Engineering Geology,
Erosion,
Floodplain,
Floods,
Gasline,
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Map,
Geologic Materials,
Glacial Deposits,
Icings,
Lake George,
Land Subsidence,
Landslide,
Liquefaction,
Materials Site,
Mount Hayes Quadrangle,
Permafrost,
Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline,
Sand & Gravel,
Subsidence,
Surficial Geology,
Tanana River,
Unconsolidated Deposits, Fewer tags
During the 2006 and 2007 field seasons, geologic features indicative of possible youthful surface faulting in or near the Alaska Highway corridor between Delta Junction and Dot Lake were identified by helicopter and fixed-wing air reconnaissance, augmented by interpretation of stereo air photos, remotely sensed images, and aeromagnetic and electromagnetic (EM) datanction to the eastern boundary of the Mt. Hayes Quadrangle. The largest of these faults is the previously unrecognized Dot "T" Johnson fault, a major west-trending, south-dipping thrust fault bordering the northern margin of the Alaska Range along the south side of the Tanana River valley. Two other faults identified as active in this study, the Canteen...
Tags: Alaska Highway Corridor,
Alaska Pipeline,
Big Delta,
Big Delta Quadrangle,
C14, All tags...
Delta Junction,
Delta River,
Dot Lake,
Faulting,
Faults,
Geologic Hazards,
Mount Hayes Quadrangle,
Strike-Slip,
Structural Geology,
Structure,
Tanana River,
Thrust,
Transportation Corridor, Fewer tags
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