Usage:
Bitter Creek Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Triassic or Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Portland Canal region, British Columbia, Canada (McConnell, 1911, 1912, 1913).
Occurs in Salmon-Unuk River region, southeastern AK (Mertie, 1921).
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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