Usage:
Arch Point Basalt (AK*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Arch Point, a few miles north of head of Volcano Bay, and at head of Belkofski Bay, Pavlof area, south of Dushkin Lagoon, in southwest part of Port Moller 1:250,000 quadrangle, southwest AK (Kennedy and Waldron, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Peninsula province*
Alaska Southwestern 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 ([ ]).