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Cook Inlet has been recognized as the second-largest petroleum province in Alaska, second only to the North Slope. The south-central Tyonek Quadrangle is an area of significant geologic interest because it is the only location in Cook Inlet where the entire producing stratigraphy of the basin is exposed on the surface. Additionally, this area encompasses the structural boundary between the forearc basin and its sediment source rocks. To better understand the petroleum system and the geologic relationships between the exhumed arc intrusive rocks and adjacent Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Cook Inlet forearc basin, during the summer of 2010 the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys conducted a federally-funded...
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Bedrock Geology,
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Cook Inlet,
Cook Inlet Basin,
Exploration,
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Geochemical Surveys,
Geochemistry,
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Igneous Rocks,
Lab Methods,
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Major Oxides,
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Neacola Mountains,
Petrology,
Resources,
Rocks,
STATEMAP Project,
Sample Location,
Tordrillo Mountains,
Trace Elements,
Trace Geochemical,
Tyonek,
Tyonek Quadrangle,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Arc,
Volcanic Rocks,
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This data lists the historically active volcanoes of Alaska and the year of the last major eruptive event. The volcanoes listed meet at least one of the following criteria since 1700 CE: (1) documented, unquestioned eruption, or (2) a strongly suspected eruption, often an eruption documented in the historical account with very little information (current geologic knowledge must not contradict the eruption account), or (3) persistent (usually on the order of decades, but certainly longer than several months) fumaroles, with temperatures (where measured) within ~10 degrees C of the boiling point, or (4) significant, measured, volcanic-related, non-eruptive deformation, (5) documented earthquake swarm with strongly...
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Hazards,
Historic Eruption,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcano Hazards,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
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Kasatochi is a small, isolated island volcano in the center of the Aleutian Island chain. It consists of a roughly circular cone approximately 3 km in diameter with a lake-filled central crater that is 1.2 km in diameter and extends from the highest point on the island to sea level. The oldest unit recognized is a thick series of mid-Pleistocene glaciovolcanic deposits consisting of autobrecciated lava, lahars, and volumetrically minor lava masses that we believe to have been emplaced underneath a regional ice cap. This unit is unconformably overlain by several massive Holocene lavas, above which lies a thick sequence of latest-Holocene pyroclastic deposits likely deposited during the crater-forming eruption. The...
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Basalt,
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Colluvium,
Erosion,
Fan,
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Geochemistry,
Geochronology,
Geologic,
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Map,
Geological Process,
Geology,
Geomorphology,
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Historic Eruption,
Igneous,
Kasatochi,
Lava Flow,
Mineralogy,
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Petrography,
Petrology,
Pumice,
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Rockfall,
Rocks,
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Slope Instability,
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Talus,
Tephra,
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This data release presents zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology from igneous rocks exposed in a coastal exposure at Ursus Head, Iliamna C-2 Quadrangle. Sills and dikes exposed in a coastal exposure at Ursus Head are deformed within the Bruin Bay fault zone. Common dikes intruding late Triassic Kamishak Formation strata composing the hanging-wall of the Bruin Bay fault are cut by numerous small-scale, low-angle, bedding-parallel, and high angle contractional faults. Sample 09MAW006A collected from one of many dikes deformed in the fault zone produced a uni-modal distribution of zircon ages of with a weighted mean of 206.92 +/-0.96 (2 sigma, n=47) and an MSWD of 1.1. Sample 09BG020C collected from a sill of more mafic...
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Iliamna Quadrangle,
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Lead,
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This publication contains previously unpublished geochemical analyses or re-analyses of lavas, magmatic inclusions, and a few gabbroic cumulate inclusions from Alaska volcanoes (Akutan, Augustine, Buzzard Creek, Dana, Douglas, Fourpeaked, Frosty, Great Sitkin, Iliamna, Kaguyak, Kiska, Okmok, Prindle Cone, Recheshnoi, Redoubt, Spurr, Ukinrek Maars, Vsevidof, Westdahl, Wrangell) collected by the authors and others over the past 35 years. It provides substantial data sets for three volcanoes (Vsevidof, Westdahl, and Douglas) for which little or no published data exist. All analyses were made by the GeoAnalytical laboratory at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. The ICP/MS data have been reduced using the 2006...
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Augustine,
Augustine Volcano,
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Bogoslof,
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Colorado Creek,
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Douglas,
Faris Peak,
Fourpeaked,
Frosty,
Frosty Peak,
Geochemical Data,
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Geologic,
Geology,
Glacier Creek,
Hayes,
Hazards,
Ice,
Iliamna,
Iliamna Volcano,
Jag Peak,
Juneau,
Kaguyak,
Kansas Creek,
Kasatochi,
Katmai,
Kiska,
Maars,
Mount Douglas,
Mount Peulik,
Mount Recheshnoi,
Mount Spurr,
Mount Wrangell,
Mount Zanetti,
Nikolski,
Okmok,
Okmok Caldera,
Pavlof,
Prindle Volcano,
Redoubt,
Redoubt Volcano,
Rhyolite,
Rocks,
Sample Location,
Spurr,
Tanana,
Tephra,
The Sisters,
Ukinrek,
Ukinrek Maars,
Uliaga,
Umnak Island,
Unimak,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Arc,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
Vsevidof,
Westdahl,
Whittier,
Wrangell,
Yakutat,
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The State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and Division of Oil & Gas (DOG) are currently engaged in a multi-year study of the hydrocarbon potential of the Tertiary and Mesozoic strata in Cook Inlet basin. Modal analyses and routine core analyses were performed on Tertiary and Mesozoic siltstones and sandstones collected during the 2007-2010 field seasons from six geographic areas in upper and lower Cook Inlet. The reservoir quality of Cook Inlet sandstones varies widely depending on their mineralogy, geologic age, burial depth, and depositional environment. Tuxedni and Naknek sandstones have poor reservoir quality and are likely to be of equally poor quality down dip. West Foreland sandstones...
Tags: Aleutian Arc,
Beluga Basin,
Bluff Point,
Capps Glacier,
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Clam Gulch,
Cook Inlet,
Cook Inlet Basin,
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Feldspar,
Fritz Creek,
Graywacke,
Homer,
Iniskin Bay,
Iniskin Peninsula,
Kachemak Bay,
Kaguyak,
Matanuska Valley,
Mineralogy,
Oil Basins,
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Oil and Gas Basin,
Outcrop Samples,
Permeability,
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Petroleum Basin Study,
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Quartz,
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Sand,
Sand and Gravel,
Sediment Transport,
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Sedimentary Rocks,
Sedimentation,
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Seward Peninsula,
Southcentral Alaska,
Straight Creek,
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Thin Section,
Tyonek,
Tyonek Quadrangle,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Ash,
Volcaniclastics,
Zeolites,
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Geologists from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) Mineral Resources Section conducted four weeks of helicopter-supported mapping and fieldwork from June 26 through July 24, 2013. The Styx River project in the Lime Hills C-1 Quadrangle was part of the State-funded Airborne Geophysical/Geological Mineral Inventory (AGGMI) program as part of the State's Strategic Minerals Assessment Project, an initiative designed to evaluate Alaska's potential for rare-earth elements, PGEs, and other similarly supply-challenged resources. The Styx River project area has active and ongoing mineral exploration for deposit types including porphyry copper/molybdenum/gold, reduced intrusion-related gold, and...
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Chromium,
Cobalt,
Copper,
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Economic Geology,
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Fluorine,
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Galena,
Gallium,
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Geochemistry,
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Germanium,
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Granite,
Greisen,
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Holmium,
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Igneous Rocks,
Iron,
Lime Hills Quadrangle,
Lode,
Lutetium,
Magnesium,
Major Oxides,
Manganese,
McGrath Quadrangle,
Metals,
Mineral Assessment,
Mineral Deposit,
Mineral Localities,
Mineral Resources,
Minor Oxides,
Molybdenum,
Neodymium,
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Niobium,
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Phosphorus,
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Silver,
Sodium,
Sphalerite,
Strategic Minerals,
Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project,
Strontium,
Sulfides,
Sulfur,
Talkeetna Quadrangle,
Tantalum,
Thallium,
Thorium,
Tin,
Titanium,
Tourmaline,
Trace Elements,
Trace Metals,
Tungsten,
Tyonek Quadrangle,
Uranium,
Vanadium,
Volcanic,
Zinc,
Zirconium,
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This report presents 40Ar/39Ar step-heating geochronology results for igneous and metamorphic rocks from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys' (DGGS) Talkeetna Mountains C-4 Quadrangle and Adjoining Areas geologic mapping project. Hornblende-bearing gabbro returned a Late Triassic crystallization age consistent with regional results for Nikolai Greenstone-related magmatism. We determined Early Jurassic metamorphic ages for hornblende and sericite from two samples of upper greenschist to amphibolite grade metavolcanic rocks. Our results indicate that a granodiorite pluton intruding Wrangellia in the study area has a Middle Jurassic age consistent with the Talkeetna Arc, indicating that the Wrangellia...
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Plutons,
STATEMAP Project,
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Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project,
Talkeetna Mountains Quadrangle,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Arc,
Volcanic Rocks,
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This data release presents 40Ar/39Ar step-heating geochronology results from rocks collected roughly 7 km southwest of Contact Point, Iliamna B-3 Quadrangle. Samples obtained from a felsic dike intruding the principal Bruin Bay fault plane near Contact Point produced biotite and plagioclase 40Ar/39Ar ages of 36.5 +/- 0.8 Ma and 31.5+/-0.7 Ma, respectively. The age dates inform stratigraphic, structural, and geochronologic studies along the western margin of lower Cook Inlet basin. The accompanying report also presents zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology results for dikes near Ursus Head.
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Lead,
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The Iniskin-Tuxedni Bay area contains excellent exposures of nearly all of the lower Cook Inlet Mesozoic succession, including most of the stratigraphic sections that define the interval and the petroleum source rocks that comprise the basin. An underdeveloped understanding of the Mesozoic petroleum system has led the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys and Division of Oil and Gas, and the U.S. Geological Survey to collaborate on a multi-year project that includes two major mapping campaigns. Geologic mapping between Chinitna Bay and the Johnson River during the 2015 field season encompassed volcanic arc rocks northwest of the Bruin Bay fault system, and Mesozoic...
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Mount Chiginagak is a hydrothermally active volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, approximately 170 km south-southwest of King Salmon, Alaska. This small stratovolcano, approximately 8 km in diameter, has erupted through Tertiary to Permian sedimentary and igneous rocks. The eruptive products of Chiginagak volcano record a history of chiefly andesite lava flows and associated block-and-ash flows. The oldest lavas exposed are Pleistocene in age and are found everywhere around the edifice except in the northeast sector, where Holocene lava flows dominate the landscape. Holocene activity has covered the northeast flank with rubbly-topped andesite lava flows that extend as far as 4.6 km from their source vent at the summit...
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Mount Chiginagak is a hydrothermally active volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, approximately 170 km south-southwest of King Salmon, Alaska. This small stratovolcano, approximately 8 km in diameter, has erupted through Tertiary to Permian sedimentary and igneous rocks. The eruptive products of Chiginagak volcano record a history of chiefly andesite lava flows and associated block-and-ash flows. The oldest lavas exposed are Pleistocene in age and are found everywhere around the edifice except in the northeast sector, where Holocene lava flows dominate the landscape. Holocene activity has covered the northeast flank with rubbly-topped andesite lava flows that extend as far as 4.6 km from their source vent at the summit...
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Kasatochi is a small, isolated island volcano in the center of the Aleutian Island chain. It consists of a roughly circular cone approximately 3 km in diameter with a lake-filled central crater that is 1.2 km in diameter and extends from the highest point on the island to sea level. The oldest unit recognized is a thick series of mid-Pleistocene glaciovolcanic deposits consisting of autobrecciated lava, lahars, and volumetrically minor lava masses that we believe to have been emplaced underneath a regional ice cap. This unit is unconformably overlain by several massive Holocene lavas, above which lies a thick sequence of latest-Holocene pyroclastic deposits likely deposited during the crater-forming eruption. The...
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Kasatochi,
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This Raw Data File presents major-oxide glass geochemical results from the ca. 3.6 ka caldera-forming eruption of Aniakchak volcano, Alaska. These data are part of a larger effort to identify and characterize tephra deposits from the largest eruptions in Alaska for use as geochronological marker horizons. Aniakchak is one of at least 29 volcanoes in Alaska that has had multiple large tephra-producing eruptions. Other deposit and sample metadata including geospatial distributions of this tephra deposit are held in the Alaska Volcano Observatory's online database, the Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA), and will be linked to these new geochemical data once published. Products included...
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Tephra,
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Alaska Volcano Observatory's geochemical database contains published whole-rock data for Quaternary volcanic rocks in Alaska, linked to geologist, publication, source volcano (where possible), and other sample and analysis metadata. This database also contains water cation and anion data for recent AVO studies. This website allows users to query the database and return datasets as fully-documented .html or .csv tables. It is our intention to update this dataset as new volcano-related geochemical data is published.
This data lists the historically active volcanoes of Alaska and the year of the last major eruptive event. The volcanoes listed meet at least one of the following criteria since 1700 CE: 1) Documented, unquestioned eruption OR 2) A strongly suspected eruption, often an eruption documented in a historical account with very little information. Current geologic knowledge must not contradict the eruption account, OR 3) Persistent (usually on the order of decades, but certainly longer than several months) fumaroles, with temperatures (where measured) within approximately 10 degrees C of the boiling point, OR 4) Significant, measured, volcanic-related, non-eruptive deformation, OR 5) Documented earthquake swarm with strongly...
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Volcanic,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcano Hazards,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
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