Geophysical and Geological Characterization of Mineral Deposit Localization in the Colorado Mineral Belt and Surrounding Lithosphere: Data Integration, Synthesis, and Visualization
The Colorado Mineral Belt and surrounding region are exceptionally rich in new and legacy data, presenting new opportunities to address the relationship between lithospheric evolution and mineral deposit formation through novel data synthesis, visualization, and mineral resources.
The Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) lies in an iconic landscape with an exceptional legacy of geologic data, highly detailed geologic mapping, over a century of mining, geochemical analyses, geochronology studies, geophysical observations, and extensive interpretations of nearly every aspect of lithospheric development. Recent Earth MRI and other geophysical data add to this bounty of high-quality data. Data integration is required for advanced hypothesis development and testing to better interpret, understand, and quantify the geotectonic processes responsible for the formation, spatial distribution, and evolution of CMB deposits.
The Data Integration, Synthesis, and Visualization task is compiling new and legacy spatial, field, and analytical data from geologic, geophysical, geochronologic, geochemical, metallogenic, and structural geologic studies for project-wide synthesis, with a focus on integrating the insight offered by the varied expertise of project personnel. Compiled datasets are used to iteratively target new and representative study areas to meet research goals and complete new metallogenic interpretations and characterizations. This work will allow for the data synthesis, visualization, and exploitation needed to reconstruct the spatiotemporal tectonic and magmatic patterns key to investigating lithospheric processes associated with CMB mineral systems.
This project is a task of the Geophysical and Geological Characterization of Mineral Deposit Localization in the Colorado Mineral Belt and Surrounding Lithosphere project.
Geophysical and Geological Characterization of Mineral Deposit Localization in the Colorado Mineral Belt and Surrounding Lithosphere
The Colorado Mineral Belt and surrounding region are exceptionally rich in new and legacy data, presenting new opportunities to address the relationship between lithospheric evolution and mineral deposit formation through novel data synthesis, visualization, and mineral resources.
The Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) lies in an iconic landscape with an exceptional legacy of geologic data, highly detailed geologic mapping, over a century of mining, geochemical analyses, geochronology studies, geophysical observations, and extensive interpretations of nearly every aspect of lithospheric development. Recent Earth MRI and other geophysical data add to this bounty of high-quality data. Data integration is required for advanced hypothesis development and testing to better interpret, understand, and quantify the geotectonic processes responsible for the formation, spatial distribution, and evolution of CMB deposits.
The Data Integration, Synthesis, and Visualization task is compiling new and legacy spatial, field, and analytical data from geologic, geophysical, geochronologic, geochemical, metallogenic, and structural geologic studies for project-wide synthesis, with a focus on integrating the insight offered by the varied expertise of project personnel. Compiled datasets are used to iteratively target new and representative study areas to meet research goals and complete new metallogenic interpretations and characterizations. This work will allow for the data synthesis, visualization, and exploitation needed to reconstruct the spatiotemporal tectonic and magmatic patterns key to investigating lithospheric processes associated with CMB mineral systems.
This project is a task of the Geophysical and Geological Characterization of Mineral Deposit Localization in the Colorado Mineral Belt and Surrounding Lithosphere project.