Usage:
Black Point Basalt (AK*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Hill near Black Point, Lat. 25 deg. N., Long. 45 deg. W., Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK. [Named from Black Point in west-central part of Port Moller 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.
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