Gravity data in the Wet Mountains area, southcentral Colorado, 2021 to 2022

Description

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected gravity data in the Wet Mountains, CO from September 2021 to July 2022 to compliment newly collected airborne magnetic data for surface and subsurface geologic mapping. A total of 261 measurements were collected across two Ediacaran-Ordovician alkaline complexes (Gem Park and McClure Mountain) and gabbroic outcrops suspected Ediacaran-Ordovician in age. These data supplement existing public gravity data to aid the subsurface interpretation of mapped and concealed Ediacaran-Ordovician alkaline intrusions related to rare earth element (REE) mineralization.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XJ7FMM
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6340a15ad34e342aee0747ae.xml

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  • gravimeter-measurement
  • colorado
  • geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center
  • cambrian
  • earth-mapping-resources-initiative
  • usgs-6340a15ad34e342aee0747ae
  • ordovician
  • isostatic-anomaly
  • custer
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • free-air-anomaly
  • geoscientificinformation
  • mineral-resources-program
  • ediacaran
  • critical-minerals
  • earth-mri
  • lacoste-romberg-gravimeter
  • bouguer-anomaly
  • gggsc
  • mrp
  • usgs
  • gravitational-field-earth
  • fremont

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