Usage:
No current usage.
(†Berners Formation (AK) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Controversial.
Paleozoic, Jurassic, or Early Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures along western shore of Berners Bay and along Lynn Canal from Point St. Mary to mouth of Independence Creek, Berners Bay region, southeastern AK; also on eastern shore of Berners Bay (Knopf, 1911).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southeastern 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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