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Volume: 42 (1958)

Issue: 1. (January)

First Page: 219

Last Page: 219

Title: Aeromagnetic Study of Copper River Basin, Alaska: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Gordon E. Andreasen, Isidore Zietz, Arthur Grantz

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

An aeromagnetic survey was made of approximately 6,000 square miles of the Copper River Basin, Alaska, in 1954 and 1955. North-south flight lines spaced one mile apart were flown from Latitude 61°45^prime to 63°00^prime. The eastern and western borders of the surveyed areas are at Longitudes 145°00^prime and 147°22^prime.

The magnetic patterns closely parallel the generally east-west arcuate geologic "grain" and seem to be correlative with lithology and with geologic structure. Outcropping areas of volcanic rocks are reflected by the configuration of the magnetic contours. A large area of low-amplitude magnetic anomalies extends from the Chugach Mountains north to about Latitude 62°30^prime. This area may possibly outline a structural basin of Tertiary age superimposed upon a depositional and structural trough of Jurassic and Cretaceous age. Anomaly-producing rock masses in this area are estimated to be a mile or more beneath the surface and are interpreted to be most deeply buried beneath the southern part of the Copper River Basin.

The magnetic data suggest that lower Jurassic volcanic rocks exposed in the Talkeetna and Chugach mountains underlie the marine and non-marine sedimentary rocks of the southwestern part of the surveyed area. The change in the magnetic pattern at the northern front of the Chugach Mountains is caused by a contact between these volcanic rocks and the younger sedimentary rocks on the north. The magnetic data suggest that the Wrangell lavas of Tertiary and Quaternary age are present at shallow depths beneath the basin in the vicinity of Mount Drum.

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