Usage:
Belkofski Formation (AK*)
Belkofski Formation of Beaver Bay Group (AK)
Geologic age:
Tertiary (late? Oligocene to middle? Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures around Belkofski Bay and on Belkofski Point, vicinity of Pavlof Volcano, [in southeast part of Cold Bay quadrangle (scale 1:250,000)], Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK (Kennedy and Waldron, 1947, 1955).
Type locality: exposures in Cold Bay area, in southeast corner of Cold Bay quadrangle (scale 1:250,000), southwestern AK (Burk, 1965).
Type section: along northwest shore of Belkofski Bay, about 5 km north of Indian Head, [Cold Bay quadrangle (scale 1:250,000)], southwestern AK (Detterman and others, 1996).
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.
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