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Geologic Unit: Terra Cotta Mountains
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Terra Cotta Mountains Sandstone*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Mudstone
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Alaska West-Central region
Publication:

Churkin, Michael, Jr., and Carter, Claire, 1996, Stratigraphy, structure, and graptolites of an Ordovician and Silurian sequence in the Terra Cotta Mountains, Alaska Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1555, 84 p., (incl. geologic maps, scale 1:24,000)


Summary:

Unit is named the Terra Cotta Mountains Sandstone for the Terra Cotta Mountains located in the southeastern part of the McGrath 1:250,000 quad, AK. Consists mainly of sandstone and mudstone with subordinate limestone. Apparently conformable on the Post River Formation (new); upper contact of unit is thought to be a bedding-plane thrust fault. Thickness is 185 m. Age is late Early and Late Silurian based on fossils (graptolites).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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