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Geologic Unit: Beluga

Usage:

Beluga Formation of Kenai Group (AK*)
Beluga Formation (AK)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene, middle*
Miocene, late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (subsurface): Standard Oil of California Beluga River No.1 well (212-35), in SW/4 NW/4 sec. 35, T. 13 N., R. 10 W., Seward Meridian, Cook Inlet, AK (Calderwood and Fackler, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Southern 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 ([ ]).