Geologic map of the Big Delta A-4 Quadrangle, Alaska

This map illustrates extents and types of unconsolidated deposits and bedrock in the Big Delta A-4 Quadrangle, Alaska. This map is based on field observations begun by P�w� in 1949 and by Reger in 1976. Unit characteristics and extents were determined during field visits and by interpreting 1:40,000-scale black-and-white aerial photographs taken in August 1949 and 1:63,360-scale, false-color infrared aerial photographs taken in July 1978, August 1980, and August 1981.

Tags: Alaska Range, Alluvium, Big Delta, Big Delta Quadrangle, Delta River, All tags... Geology, Glaciation, Loess, Outwash, Permafrost, Radiocarbon Dating, Silt, Surficial Geology, Tanana River, Tephra, Till, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

A Guide to the Late Quaternary History of Northern and Western Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Between 27 and 11 kyr ago, during the last major (Naptowne) glaciation, the northwestern and western Kenai Peninsula and the Cook Inlet trough were covered by ice except for local nunataks and small refugia, like the Caribou Hills. Landforms related to four glacial stades are recognized and paleogeographic maps document ice limits, drainage systems, glacial-impounded lakes, and glaciomarine terraces. Numerous multidisciplinary studies of glacial, vegetation, and insect histories document Holocene climatic changes.

Tags: Alluvial Deposits, Climate Change, Coastal Erosion, Cook Inlet, Erosion, All tags... Geologic Hazards, Geology, Geomorphology, Glacial Deposits, Glacial Drift, Glacial Geology, Glaciation, Gravel, Homer, Ice, Ice Contact Deposits, Ice-Contact, Kenai Peninsula, Kenai Quadrangle, Kenai Spur Highway, Meltwater, Outwash, Radiocarbon Dating, Seldovia Quadrangle, Seward Highway, Seward Quadrangle, Sterling Highway, Surficial Geology, Tephra, Tephrachronology, Terrace, Tsunami, Vegetation, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Geologic map of the Dalton Highway (Atigun Gorge to Slope Mountain) area, southern Arctic Foothills, Alaska

This report provides detailed mapping (1:63,360-scale) in the Dalton Highway area, from Atigun Gorge to Slope Mountain, in the west-central Philip Smith Mountains quadrangle. The map area extends from the northern flank of the Endicott Mountains into the Arctic Foothills province.

Tags: Alaska, State of, Allochthon, Alluvial, Arenite, Atigun Gorge, All tags... Atigun River, Aufeis, Barite, Biostratigraphy, Brooks Range, Carbonates, Chert, Clastics, Coal, Colluvial Deposits, Conglomerate, Correlation, Dalton Highway, Depositional Environment, Endicott Mountains, Eolian, Fan, Faulting, Fluvial, Folding, Galbraith Lake, Geologic Map, Glacial, Glacial Lake, Glaciation, Grainstone, Graywacke, Ice-Contact, Igneous, Imnavait Mountain, Itigaknit Mountain, Itkillik River, Kettles, Kuparuk River, Lacustrine, Landslide, Limestone, Measured Stratigraphic Section, Mudstone, Organic Geochemistry, Orogeny, Outwash, Packstone, Paleocurrent, Paleontology, Petroleum, Philip Smith Mountains Quadrangle, Porosity, Provenance, Reservoir, Rock-Glacier, STATEMAP Program, Sagavanirktok River, Sandstone, Shale, Siderite, Slope Mountain, Solifluction, Stratigraphy, Structure, Surficial, Tectonics, Terrace, Toolik Lake, Toolik River, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Turbidites, Uplift, Wackestone, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Surficial geology of the Dalton Highway (Itkillik-Sagavanirktok rivers) area, southern Arctic foothills, Alaska

This report provides detailed (1:63,360-scale) surficial-geologic mapping in the Dalton Highway area, from the Sagavanirktok to the Itkillik Rivers, in the west-central Philip Smith Mountains quadrangle. The map area extends from the northern flank of the Endicott Mountains into the Arctic Foothills province.

Tags: Alaska, State of, Alluvial, Atigun Gorge, Atigun River, Aufeis, All tags... Avalanche, Beach Deposits, Brooks Range, Colluvial Deposits, Correlation, Dalton Highway, Drainage Patterns, Dunes, Endicott Mountains, Eolian, Erratics, Esker, Fan, Floodplain, Fluvial, Galbraith Lake, Geologic Map, Glacial, Glacial Drift, Glacial Lake, Glaciation, Glaciers, Gravel, Ice Contact Deposits, Imnavait Mountain, Interglaciation, Itigaknit Mountain, Itkillik River, Kettles, Kuparuk River, Lacustrine, Landslide, Levees, Loess, Moraines, Outwash, Paleosols, Peat, Permafrost, Philip Smith Mountains Quadrangle, Piracy, Radiocarbon Dating, Reference Information, Rock Glaciers, STATEMAP Project, Sagavanirktok River, Sand, Silt, Slope Mountain, Solifluction, Stratigraphy, Surficial, Talus, Tectonics, Terrace, Toolik Lake, Toolik River, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Tundra, Vegetation, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Geologic map of the Talkeetna Mountains C-4 Quadrangle and adjoining areas, central Alaska

The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS), in partnership with the U.S. National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, mapped approximately 450 mi2 of the Talkeetna Mountains region of central Alaska at 1:50,000 scale over the course of six weeks in 2014. This area contains significant exposures of Late Triassic mafic volcanics and gabbro sills that have been the focus of region-wide exploration for the Strategic and Critical platinum-group elements (PGEs). The area also exposes numerous inactive and possibly active faults which project through the area of proposed hydropower development. The resulting geologic map offers an improved understanding of the geology, structural history, and mineral...

Tags: 40Ar/39Ar, Aerial Geology, Aerial Photography, Alluvial, Alluvial Deposits, All tags... Amphibolite Facies Units, Bedrock Geologic Map, Bedrock Geology, Brachiopods, Cleary Creek, Colluvial Deposits, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Crinoids, Esker, Faulting, Faults, Floodplain, Fluvial, Fossils, Geochronology, Geologic Map, Geologic Materials, Geomorphology, Glacial, Glacial Deposits, Glacial Drift, Glacial Geology, Glacial Geomorphology, Glacial History, Glacial Lake, Glacial Processes, Glacial Stratigraphy, Glaciation, Ice Contact Deposits, Ice-Contact, Iron Creek, Lacustrine, Lacustrine Sedimentation, Landslide, Landslide Deposit, Outwash, Outwash Fan, Paleochannel, Permafrost and Periglacial, Remote Sensing, Rock Glaciers, Rock-Glacier Deposits, Rockfall, STATEMAP Project, Sand and Gravel, Slides, Slope Instability, Soil Creep, Stephan Lake, Surficial, Surficial Geologic Map, Surficial Geology, Talkeetna Mountains, Talkeetna Mountains Quadrangle, Talkeetna River, Till, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Data release for the geologic map of the upper Arkansas River valley region, north-central Colorado

This 1:50,000-scale geologic map represents a compilation of the most recent geologic studies of the upper Arkansas River valley, between Leadville and Salida, Colorado. The valley is structurally controlled by an extensional fault system that forms part of the prominent northern Rio Grande rift, an intra-continental region of crustal extension. This work also incorporates new detailed geologic mapping of poorly understood areas within the map area and reinterprets previously studied areas, aided by lidar data that covers 59 percent of the map area. The mapped region extends into the Proterozoic metamorphic and intrusive rocks in the Sawatch Range west of the valley and the Mosquito Range to the east. Paleozoic...

Categories: Data; Tags: 207Pb/206Pb zircon age, 40Ar/39Ar age, Arkansas River, Balltown, Balltown placer gold mining areas, All tags... Belle of Granite Mine, Big Union Creek, Bishop ash, Black Cloud Mine, Black Mountain, Browns Canyon, Browns Canyon fluorspar mining district, Browns Creek, Buckskin Gulch, Buena Vista, Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Peaks, Bull Lake glaciation, Cache Creek, California Gulch, California Mine, Centerville, Chaffee County, Chalk Creek, Clear Creek, Clear Creek Reservoir, Colorado, Cottonwood Creek, Dry Union Gulch, Eagle County, Eagle River, East Fork Arkansas River, Eddy Creek, Elephant Rock, Fremont County, Front Range, Garfield, Garfield Mine, Garfield mining district, Gordon Mine, Granite, Granite mining district, Granite placer gold mining areas, Hayden Gulch, Homestake Reservoir, Iowa Gulch, Johnson Village, Lake County, Lake Creek, Langhoff Gulch, Lava Creek B ash, Leadville, Leadville mining district, Lilly Mine, London Mine, Malta, Maysville, Mesozoic rocks, Morrison Creek, Mosquito Range, Mount Aetna, Mount Antero, Mount Antero mining district, Mount Princeton, Mount Shavano, Mount Yale, Paleozoic rocks, Park County, Pine Creek, Pinedale glaciation, Pitkin County, Poncha Springs, Proterozoic rocks, Quaternary deposits, Rio Grande rift, Riverside, Rock Creek, Ruby Mine, Ruby Mountain, San Juan Mountains, Sangre de Cristo Range, Sawatch Range, Sedalia Mine, Sedalia copper-zinc mining district, South Arkansas River, South Park, South Platte River, Squaw Creek, St. Kevin mining district, Structural Geology, Sugar Loaf mining district, Sugarloaf Mountain, Tennessee Creek, Tertiary rocks, Triad Ridge, Trout Creek, Trout Creek Pass, Trout Creek paleovalley, Tumble Creek, Turquoise Lake, Twin Lakes Reservoir, Twin Lakes mining district, Two Bits mining district, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Western Alma mining district, Weston Pass, Weston Pass mining district, Yankee Blade Mine, alluvial deposits, alluvium, andesite, artificial-fill deposits, augen gneiss, basalt, basin-fill deposits, breccia, colluvium, copper, cosmogenic surface-exposure age, dacite, debris flow, debris-flow deposits, diamicton, diorite, eolian deposits, fan deposits, fault, faulting, fluorspar, fluvial deposits, gabbro, glacial deposits, glacial flood deposits, glacial flood gravel, glaciofluvial deposits, gneiss, gold, graben, granite, granitic gneiss, granodiorite, gravel, hydrologic hazards, hypabyssal rhyolite, intrusive rock, lahar deposit, lamprophyre, landslide deposits, latite, lava, lead, leucogranite, leucogranite gneiss, lidar imagery, man-made deposits, mass-movement deposits, mass-movement hazards, metabasalt, metagabbro, metaigneous rocks, metasedimentary rocks, metavolcanic rocks, microtonalite, mine, mine-waste deposits, mineral deposits, mining district, monzodiorite, monzogranite, monzonite, mud-flow deposits, neotectonics, ore, outwash, outwash gravel, peat deposits, pegmatite, periglacial, placer gold, placer-tailings deposits, porphyry, pre-Bull Lake glaciation, quartz diorite, quartz latite, quartzite, rhyodacite, rhyolite, rift, rock-glacier deposits, sackungen, sand and gravel resources, scarp, schist, sedimentary rocks, seismic hazards, silver, smelter-slag deposits, soil, surficial deposits, talus deposits, till, tuff, volcanic ash, volcanic breccia, volcanic rock, weathering, wetland deposits, zinc, Fewer tags

Surficial-geologic map, Alaska Highway corridor, Delta Junction to Dot Lake, Alaska

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