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  • Usage in publication:
    • Naknek Lake Granite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bristol Bay basin[?]
    • Alaska Peninsula province
    • Alaska Southwestern region
Publication:

Burk, C.A., 1965, Geology of the Alaska Peninsula; island arc and continental margin: Geological Society of America Memoir, 99, 250 p., (incl. geologic maps, scale 1:250,000 and 1:1,000,000)


Summary:

Pt. 1, p. 38, 39, 48. Naknek Lake Granite. Term used in discussion of Naknek Formation. Spurr (1900) considered Naknek Formation to have been derived from early Jurassic hornblende-biotite Naknek Lake Granite exposed along axis of Aleutian Range northeast of Becharof Lake. [Compiler unable to locate statement in which Spurr used formal expression "Naknek Lake Granite. "] Age is Early Jurassic.
Naknek Lake batholith is on Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 518).


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