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1998: Summary terrane, mineral deposit, and metallogenic belt maps of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera (CD-ROM): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-136 (CD-ROM).

Acknowledgments

We thank the many geologists who have worked with us for their valuable expertise and contributions in each region of Alaska, the Russian Far East, Hokkaido Island of Japan, the Canadian Cordillera, and the U.S.A. Pacific Northwest. In particular we thank J.N. Aleinikoff, Yu.V. Arkhipov, H.C. Berg, R.B. Blodgett, S.E. Box, D.A. Brew, M.D. Bulgakova, Ch. B. Borukayev, D.C. Bradley, Howard Brooks, J. Decker, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, H.L. Foster, V.V. Gaiduk, B.M. Gamble, V.V. Golozubov, D.G. Howell, D.L. Jones, S.M. Karl, S.V. Kovalenko, the late Lidiya I. Kovbas, W.C. McClelland, E.M. MacKevett, Jr., A.V. Makhinin, M.V. Martynyuk, M.L. Miller, T.P. Miller, L.Ph. Mishin, E.J. Moll-Stalcup, T.E. Moore, S.W. Nelson, V.S. Oxman, S.A. Palanjan, I.V. Panchenko, T.L. Pavlis, L.I. Popeko, A.V. Prokopiev, J.C. Reed, Jr., D.H. Richter, S.M. Roeske, V.I. Shpikerman, N.J. Silberling, T.E. Smith, A.B. Till, F.F. Tret'yakov, A.N. Vishnevskiy, I.G. Volkodav, Koji Wakita, W.K. Wallace, G.R. Winkler, L.P. Zonenshain, and Yu.P. Zmievsky for their many fruitful discussions. We thank Ch.B. Borykayev, the late William R. Greenwood, Donald Grybeck, B.A. Morgan III, I.Ya. Nekrasov, A.T. Ovenshine, P.P. Hearn, A.A. Sidorov, T.E. Smith, D.J. Templeman-Kluit, and W.H. White for their encouragement and support of the project.

Additional assistance for preparation of the CD-ROM and files related to SurView and JagPlay was provided by J.A. Grant (Airborne Geophysics Section, Mineral Resources Division, Geological Survey of Canada).

Geographic Base

World Data Bank II topographic data set

with modifications by the Geoscience Information Division (GID), Natural Resources Canada