Digital Bedrock Geologic Map Database of the Beatty 30 X 60-Minute Quadrangle, Nevada and California

This geologic map database is a bedrock compilation of the Beatty
30'x 60' quadrangle in southern Nevada and adjoining parts of
California. The database represents a new compilation at
1:100,000-scale of the southern part of the southwestern Nevada
volcanic field and Paleozoic and late Precambrian sedimentary rocks
in Bare Mountain and the Funeral Mountains. The map area includes
the entire region around Yucca Mountain, the proposed national
high-level nuclear waste repository, and the eastern part of Death
Valley National Park. A major epithermal disseminated gold deposit
is being mined at Ladd Mountain, in the southeastern Bullfrog
Hills, and the geology of numerous other areas of mineralization in
the Bullfrog Hills and adjoining Bare Mountain is depicted. A
major part of the map area is included within the Nevada Test Site
(previously geologically mapped at 1:24,000-scale, the new
compilation reflects numerous recent studies of stratigraphy and
structure), and parts of the Nellis Air Force Base Bombing Range.