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  • Usage in publication:
    • Moose Creek Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Schist
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Alaska Southern region
Publication:

Wahrhaftig, Clyde, 1968, Schists of the central Alaska Range, IN Contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1254-E, p. E1-E22.


Summary:

Unit is named the Moose Creek Member of the Totatlanika Schist. Consists of black schist, green chloritic schist, and yellow quartz-orthoclase schist and gneiss. Thickness is 1600 m. Overlies the Keevy Peak Formation; underlies the California Creek Member of the Totatlanika Schist. Age is Mississippian(?).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Moose Creek Member*
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Alaska Southern region
Publication:

Csejtey, Bela, Jr., Mullen, M.W., Cox, D.P., and Stricker, G.D., 1992, Geology and geochronology of the Healy quadrangle, south-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1961, 2 sheets, 63 p., scale 1:250,000 and 1:360,000


Summary:

Age for Totatlanika Schist is revised from Mississippian(?) to: Middle Devonian to Early Mississippian. [Age of Moose Creek Member is not addressed].

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


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