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Geochemical data for stream-sediment, surface-water, rock, and vegetation samples from Red Mountain (Dry Creek), an unmined volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in the Bonnifield District, Alaska Range, east-central Alaska

May 5, 2007

North-central and northeast Nevada contains numerous large plutons and smaller stocks but also contains many small, shallowly emplaced intrusive bodies, including dikes, sills, and intrusive lava dome complexes. Decades of geologic investigations in the study area demonstrate that many ore deposits, representing diverse ore deposit types, are spatially, and probably temporally and genetically, associated with these igneous intrusions. However, despite the number and importance of igneous instrusions in the study area, no synthesis of geochemical data available for these rocks has been completed. This report presents a synthesis of composition and age data for these rocks. The product represents the first phases of an effort to evaluate the time-space-compositional evolution of Mesozoic and Cenozoic magmatism in the study area and identify genetic associations between magmatism and mineralizing processes in this region.

Publication Year 2007
Title Geochemical data for stream-sediment, surface-water, rock, and vegetation samples from Red Mountain (Dry Creek), an unmined volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in the Bonnifield District, Alaska Range, east-central Alaska
DOI 10.3133/ds204
Authors Stuart A. Giles, Robert G. Eppinger, Matthew Granitto, Philip P. Zelenak, Monique G. Adams, Michael W. Anthony, Paul H. Briggs, Larry P. Gough, Philip L. Hageman, Jane M. Hammarstrom, John D. Horton, Stephan J. Sutley, Peter M. Theodorakos, Ruth E. Wolf
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Data Series
Series Number 204
Index ID ds204
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center; U.S. Geological Survey