- Usage in publication:
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- Aleuts member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Shale
- Sandstone
- Conglomerate
- AAPG geologic province:
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- [Alaska Peninsula province]
Summary:
Pg. 203 (table 1), 205-206. Aleuts member of Kialagvik formation. Lower 650 feet consists of dark-gray to black shale grading upward into gray shaly sandstone; upper 450 feet consists of interbedded sandstone, shale, and conglomerate, increasing in coarseness upward with several beds of conglomerate in upper 200 feet. Underlies Kolosh member (new); overlies Bidarka formation (new). Age is Early Jurassic.
Occurs in vicinity of Wide Bay, south of Katmai National Monument, Alaska Peninsula, south-central AK.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 48).
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