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Geologic Unit: Fortress Mountain

Usage:

Fortress Mountain Formation (AK*)


Subunits:

Mount Kelly Graywacke Tongue (AK*).


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (composite): partial sections along Kiruktagiak River and on Castle Mountain [Chandler Lake quadrangle] northern AK (Patton, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Northern region*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).