Serial Transect Mapping
Cordillera Resources pioneered the geological survey technique of serial transect mapping.
Cordillera Resources collects outcrop attitudes along a transect line, much like geophysicists collect data at individual shot points along a seismic line.
All attitudes are located using sub-meter, survey grade Trimble GPS.
The lower cost of serial transect mapping allows gathering data along many lines in a study area ( "swath mapping" ) for much less than it would cost to shoot a single seismic line.
Cordillera Resources has a library of over 32,000 attitudes to date.
Cordillera Resources, Inc.
Cordillera Resources, Inc. is the premier contract geologic mapping service for the Northern Great Basin area in the western United States of America.
Cordillera Resources is amassing the largest, most comprehensive, and accurate data base of geological attitudes for the northern Great Basin.
Cordillera Resources considers its database of outcrop attitudes to eclipse that of any state, federal, academic, commercial or private institution for the area.
Attitudes comprise -
- structural data
- surface location in any coordinate system ( default: UTM - NAD 27 Zone 11 )
- dip magnitude
- azimuth of bedding plane dip
- stratigraphical data
- unit age
- formation
- bedding thickness
- sequences
- unconformities
- interbeds
- fracturing
- lithological data
- rock color ( GSA standard color value )
- type
- texture
- porosity
- grading
- crystallinity
- biostratigraphical data
- megafossils observed on site
- microfossil and palynomorphological analysis conducted on samples taken from site
Purchase License
Cordillera offers access to this large and growing library of geological information at US$1,000 per attitude.
Additional fees are charged for
- microfossil and palynomorph laboratory work.
- aerial photographs of each transect line.
- geological cross-section for each transect line.
Cedar Strat is a major client of Cordillera Resources, Inc. All Cedar Strat customers obtain access to relevant parts of this data through sublicensing by Cedar Strat.
Regional Studies
Cordillera Resources is conducting a series of studies ( blue outlines ) to better understand the structural geology of eastern Nevada.
Radar Ridge and Dome Mountain are two intriguing study areas.
Radar Ridge
A test well drilled by Plains Exploration and Production Company at Radar Ridge (July 2007 ) had enough gas to flare in the first several thousand feet.
- Well: Pluto 27-1
- API No.: 27-033-05318
- NV Permit No.: 888
- Proposed total depth: 12,000 feet
- Outcrop formation: Permo-Pennsylvanian
- Location: White Pine County, 15.5 miles northwest of Ely, NV; 1600 feet west of US Highway 50
Dome Mountain
Eden Energy recently returned oil & gas leases on Dome Mountain to Cedar Strat Corp. as part of a restructured deal.
Dr. Alan Chamberlain believes Dome Mountain to be the Crown Jewel of the Diamond Structural Complex. Structural elements exposed at Dome Mountain hold the key to understanding the geology of the Diamond Range (including Eden's Noah Project) and much of northeastern Nevada.
Dome Mountain straddles the line between Eureka and White Pine Counties.