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Data Series 509

Central Colorado Assessment Project (CCAP)—Geochemical Data for Rock, Sediment, Soil, and Concentrate Sample Media

By Matthew Granitto, Ed H. DeWitt, and Terry L. Klein

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This database was initiated, designed, and populated to collect and integrate geochemical data from central Colorado in order to facilitate geologic mapping, petrologic studies, mineral resource assessment, definition of geochemical baseline values and statistics, environmental impact assessment, and medical geology. The Microsoft Access database serves as a geochemical data warehouse in support of the Central Colorado Assessment Project (CCAP) and contains data tables describing historical and new quantitative and qualitative geochemical analyses determined by 70 analytical laboratory and field methods for 47,478 rock, sediment, soil, and heavy-mineral concentrate samples. Most samples were collected by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel and analyzed either in the analytical laboratories of the USGS or by contract with commercial analytical laboratories. These data represent analyses of samples collected as part of various USGS programs and projects. In addition, geochemical data from 7,470 sediment and soil samples collected and analyzed under the Atomic Energy Commission National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) program (henceforth called NURE) have been included in this database. In addition to data from 2,377 samples collected and analyzed under CCAP, this dataset includes archived geochemical data originally entered into the in-house Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS) database (used by the USGS from the mid-1960s through the late 1980s) and the in-house PLUTO database (used by the USGS from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s). All of these data are maintained in the Oracle-based National Geochemical Database (NGDB). Retrievals from the NGDB and from the NURE database were used to generate most of this dataset. In addition, USGS data that have been excluded previously from the NGDB because the data predate earliest USGS geochemical databases, or were once excluded for programmatic reasons, have been included in the CCAP Geochemical Database and are planned to be added to the NGDB.

Posted August 26, 2010

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USGS Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center
Box 25046, Mail Stop 973
Denver, CO 80225

http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/

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Suggested citation:

Granitto, Matthew, Klein, T.L., and DeWitt, E.H., 2010, Central Colorado Assessment Project (CCAP)—Geochemical data for rock, sediment, soil, and concentrate sample media: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 509, 29 p. Available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2010/509.



Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Geographic Setting

Methods of Study

Characteristics of the Relational Database

Acknowledgments

References Cited

Appendix 1. Analytical Methods

Appendix 2. Database Query Examples

Appendix 3. Data Enhancement, Correction, and Processing


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