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Mineral exploration with Skylab photography in central Colorado
Gary Prost
Mineral exploration with Skylab photography in central Colorado (in An issue devoted to techniques and results of remote sensing, Alexander F. H. Goetz (editor), Barrett N. Rock (editor) and Lawrence C. Rowan (editor))
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (July 1983) 78 (4): 633-640
Mineral exploration with Skylab photography in central Colorado (in An issue devoted to techniques and results of remote sensing, Alexander F. H. Goetz (editor), Barrett N. Rock (editor) and Lawrence C. Rowan (editor))
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (July 1983) 78 (4): 633-640
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Carboniferous
- color imagery
- Colorado
- economic geology
- faults
- geophysical surveys
- hydrothermal alteration
- hydrothermal processes
- imagery
- Lake County Colorado
- Leadville Formation
- lineaments
- metal ores
- metasomatism
- mineral deposits, genesis
- mineral exploration
- Mississippian
- Paleozoic
- Park County Colorado
- photography
- polymetallic ores
- remote sensing
- satellite methods
- Skylab
- structural controls
- surveys
- United States
- Weston Pass
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Dense linear patterns, intersections of geologic lineaments, hydrothermal and supergene alteration patterns, and vegetation toxicity. Exploration at Weston Pass revealed major faulting, local hydrothermal alteration, and a small zinc-silver-lead deposit. Controls on mineralization are deep-seated faulting, jointing, and permeable and reactive facies in the Mississippian Leadville Formation. Advantages of orbital photography are high resolution and true color pictures, as well as low cost, large area coverage, uninhibited access to remote areas, and confidential reconnaissance.--Modified journal abstract.
ISSN: 0361-0128
EISSN: 1554-0774
Coden: ECGLAL
Serial Title: Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists
Serial Volume: 78
Serial Issue: 4
Title: Mineral exploration with Skylab photography in central Colorado
Title: An issue devoted to techniques and results of remote sensing
Author(s): Prost, Gary
Author(s): Goetz, Alexander F. H.editor
Author(s): Rock, Barrett N.editor
Author(s): Rowan, Lawrence C.editor
Affiliation: Amoco Prod. Co.,
Denver,
United States
Affiliation: Calif. Inst. Technol., Jet Propul. Lab.,
Pasadena, CA,
United States
Pages: 633-640
Published: 198307
Text Language: English
Publisher: Economic Geology Publishing Company,
Lancaster, PA,
United States
References: 23
Accession Number: 1983-049907
Categories: Economic geology, geology of ore deposits
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 1 table, geol. sketch map
N39°00'00" - N39°15'00", W106°19'60" - W106°00'00"
Secondary Affiliation: U. S. Geol. Surv.,
USA,
United States
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 1983
Program Name: USGSOPNon-USGS publications with USGS authors
