Digital Bedrock Geologic Map Database of the Beatty 30 X 60-Minute Quadrangle, Nevada and California

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Michael D. Carr
Originator: David A. Sawyer
Originator: Kathryn Nimz
Originator: Florian Maldonado
Originator: WC Swadley
Publication_Date: 1996
Title:
Digital Bedrock Geologic Map Database of the Beatty 30 X 60-Minute Quadrangle, Nevada and California
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Series_Information:
Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 96-291
Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-291/
Description:
Abstract:
This geologic map database is a bedrock compilation of the Beatty 30'x 60' quadrangle in southern Nevada and adjoining parts of California. The database represents a new compilation at 1:100,000-scale of the southern part of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field and Paleozoic and late Precambrian sedimentary rocks in Bare Mountain and the Funeral Mountains. The map area includes the entire region around Yucca Mountain, the proposed national high-level nuclear waste repository, and the eastern part of Death Valley National Park. A major epithermal disseminated gold deposit is being mined at Ladd Mountain, in the southeastern Bullfrog Hills, and the geology of numerous other areas of mineralization in the Bullfrog Hills and adjoining Bare Mountain is depicted. A major part of the map area is included within the Nevada Test Site (previously geologically mapped at 1:24,000-scale, the new compilation reflects numerous recent studies of stratigraphy and structure), and parts of the Nellis Air Force Base Bombing Range.
Purpose:
Together with the description of map units (btyrep.txt or btyrep.ps), and in conjunction with the recently published Nevada Test Site Region map database (Sawyer and others, 1995, USGS Open-File Report-567), the Beatty geologic map database provides the most recent synthesis of the stratigraphy and structural geology of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field, the Nevada Test Site, and the Yucca Mountain site.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 1996
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: none planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.00
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -116.00
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.00
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.50
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints: none
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: geology
Theme_Keyword: geologic maps
Theme_Keyword: bedrock geologic units
Theme_Keyword: geologic structure
Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: National Geologic Map Database Catalog themes, augmented
Theme_Keyword: 3400 - Graphical
Theme_Keyword: 3100 - Vector
Theme_Keyword: 3420 - PostScript
Theme_Keyword: 3110 - ESRI
Theme_Keyword: 3112 - export
Theme_Keyword: 1100 - Geology
Theme_Keyword: 1101 - General
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4
Place_Keyword: f32023 = Nye
Place_Keyword: f06027 = Inyo
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carr, Michael D
Contact_Organization: USGS-GEO-WRG-MCS
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
Mail Stop 999, USGS
345 Middlefield Road
City: Menlo Park
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code: 94025
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 650-329-5011
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mdcarr@usgs.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-291/bty_map.pdf
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: PDF representation of geologic map plate
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PDF
Data_Set_Credit:
Compilation of the digital database depended on advice and assistance in the use of ALACARTE - ARC/INFO from T.T. Fitzgibbon, C.M. Wentworth, and G.A. Phelps, and Johanna Fenton
Native_Data_Set_Environment: ARC/INFO version 7.0.3
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The current map database incorporates geologic data from: (1) digitized (by scanning) polygon, fault, and structural attitude layers of the published 1:100,000-scale geologic map of the NTS (Frizzell and Shulters, 1990, and Figure 1a, Sources of Compiled Geologic Data); (2) the digital 1:100,000-scale geologic compilation of the Pahute Mesa 30' by 60' quadrangle (Minor and others, 1993); (3) the recent digital database compilation of the NTS by Sawyer and others (1995), and (4) recent field studies of stratigraphy and structure by the authors and others. Numerous revisions of the of the NTS area were also made by adding new field and stratigraphic data to the published 1:24,000- scale geologic data (see Figure 1b; Sources of Original Geologic Data).
Completeness_Report: Complete
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The scanned images were vectorized and transformed from scanner coordinates to projection coordinates using digital tics at quadrangle corners and internal locations. The scanned lines were edited interactively using ALACARTE, unit boundaries were tagged as a contact or fault as appropriate, and scanning artifacts visible at 1:100,000 were removed.
Base map layers were prepared from scale-stable film positives at 100,000 scale, of the U.S. Geological Survey Beatty (1986 edition) topographic map. The base was scanned on a Scitex scanner as four separate layers (culture, drainage, index contours, and intermediate contours). Scanned and vectorized images were transformed from scanner coordinates to projection coordinates using digital tics.
Process_Date: 1990-1996
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Creation of original metadata record
Process_Date: 20000816
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Jennifer Lenz
Contact_Organization: US Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address: 12201 Surise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 918
City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-6974
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703-648-6560
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pschweitzer@usgs.gov
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: vector
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Grid_Coordinate_System:
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator
Universal_Transverse_Mercator:
UTM_Zone_Number: 11
Transverse_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -117
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0
False_Easting: 500000
False_Northing: 0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: unknown
Ordinate_Resolution: unknown
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
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Entity_Type_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
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Attribute_Definition: Point type
Attribute_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Overturned bedding
Attribute_Domain_Values:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Foliation and bedding whose dips are both 90 degrees
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Attribute_Domain_Values:
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Range_Domain_Maximum: 90
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: degrees
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
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Attribute_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
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Entity_Type_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LTYPE
Attribute_Definition: Line type
Attribute_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
Attribute_Domain_Values:
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Attribute_Domain_Values:
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Attribute_Domain_Values:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Topographic wall of caldera whose location is not precisely known
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
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Attribute_Domain_Values:
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Plunging overturned synclinal fold axis whose position is certain
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Older playa, marsh, and spring deposits (Pleistocene? and Pliocene)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Beatty Wash Formation (Miocene)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Timber Mountain landslide breccia - Timber Mountain Group (Miocene)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Basalts in Timber Mountain Group - Timber Mountain Group (Miocene)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Transitional Timber Mountain breccia and sedimentary rocks (Miocene)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Paintbrush caldera-collapse breccias - Paintbrush Group (Miocene)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Chainman Shale and Scotty Wash Quartzite (Early Pennsylvanian and Mississippian)
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Enumerated_Domain:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Guilmette Formation (Late and Middle Devonian)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Sevy Dolomite and Laketown Dolomite, undivided (Early Devonian and Silurian)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Roberts Mountains Formation (Silurian)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Oes
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Ely Springs Dolomite (Late Ordovician)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Oe
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Eureka Quartzite (Late and Middle Ordovician)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Op
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Pogonip Group (Middle and Early Ordovician)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fn
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Nopah Formation (Late Cambrian)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fbb
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Banded Mountain Member - Bonanza King Formation (Late and Middle Cambrian)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fbp
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Papoose Lake Member - Bonanza King Formation (Late and Middle Cambrian)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fc
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Carrara Formation (Middle and Early Cambrian)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fz
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Zabriskie Quartzite (Early Cambrian)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fZw
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Wood Canyon Formation (Early Cambrian and Late Proterozoic)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Zs
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Stirling Quartzite (Late Proterozoic)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Zj
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Johnnie Formation (Late Proterozoic)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Yk
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Kingston Peak Formation (Middle Proterozoic)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Yb
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Beck Spring Dolomite (Middle Proterozoic)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Yc
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Crystal Spring Formation (Middle Proterozoic)
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Xmi
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Metamorphic and intrusive rocks (Early? Proterozoic)
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Entity_Type_Definition: Linear geologic features
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LTYPE
Attribute_Definition: Line type
Attribute_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: atten. fault, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed attenuated fault
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: atten. fault, concealed
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Concealed attenuated fault whose position is inferred
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: atten. fault, inferred
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Attenuated fault whose position is inferred
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: contact, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed geologic contact
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fault, Quaternary fault, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed Quaternary fault
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fault, Quaternary fault, inferred
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Quaternary fault whose position is inferred
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fault, approx. located
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fault whose position is not precisely known
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fault, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed fault
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: fault, concealed
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Concealed fault whose position is inferred
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fault whose position is inferred
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: map boundary, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Boundary of mapped area
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: normal fault, approx. located
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Normal fault whose position is not precisely known
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: normal fault, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed normal fault
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: normal fault, concealed
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Concealed normal fault whose position is inferred
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: scratch boundary, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Scratch boundary is used to close off areas with unknown aerial extent for display purposes.
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: thrust fault, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed thrust fault
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: thrust fault, concealed
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Concealed thrust fault whose position is inferred
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: BTY_GEO.PAT
Entity_Type_Definition:
Geologic map units at specific locations (same attributes as polygon coverage BTY_GEO.PAT)
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: BTY_META.PAT
Entity_Type_Definition: Lines and polygons delineating metamorphic zones
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
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Attribute_Definition: Line type
Attribute_Definition_Source: OFR-96-291
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed contact
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed fault
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Metamorphic facies whose location is not precisely known
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: metamorphic.isograd, certain
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed metamorphic isograd
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: USGS Information Services
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address: Box 25286, Denver Federal Center
City: Denver
State_or_Province: Colorado
Postal_Code: 80255-0046
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-303-202-4695
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: infoservices@usgs.gov
Resource_Description: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-291
Distribution_Liability:
This map is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U. S. Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U. S. Government. Although these data have been used by the U. S. Geological Survey and have been successfully imported into the data base programs, no warranty expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to how successfully or accurately the data can be imported into any specific application software running on any specific hardware platform. The fact of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in connection thereby.
This database, identified as "PRELIMINARY DIGITAL GEOLOGIC MAP DATABASE OF THE BEATTY 30 X 60-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, SOUTHERN NEVADA" has been approved for release and publication by the Director of the USGS. Although this database has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.
Standard_Order_Process:
Non-digital_Form:
Map can be downloaded as a 7 megabyte PostScript file from http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-291/bty_map.ps.Z
Map can also be downloaded as a 4.6 megabyte PDF file from http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-291/bty_map.pdf
Fees: none
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ARCE
Format_Version_Number: 7.x
Format_Information_Content:
Faults, depositional contacts, and geologic unit identities, Fold axes, Oriented symbols (strike and dip information)
File_Decompression_Technique: gzip and tar
Transfer_Size: 8.6
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Fees: none
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20160205
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Peter N Schweitzer
Contact_Organization: USGS Midwest Area
Contact_Position:
Collection manager, USGS Geoscience Data Clearinghouse, http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address:
Mail Stop 954
12201 Sunrise Valley Dr
City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192-0002
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-6533
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703-648-6252
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pschweitzer@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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