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Geologic Unit: Boulder Creek

Usage:

/Boulder Creek Volcanics of Amphitheater Group (AK)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Boulder Creek Quartz Monzonite by Rose (1967), also in Mount Hayes quadrangle, AK.]


Geologic age:

Late Triassic


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

Type locality: low mountains north of Boulder Creek and Sevenmile (Boulder) Lake, Eureka Creek area, Mount Hayes A-5 and Mount Hayes B-5 quadrangles (scale 1:63,360), AK (Stout, 1976).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Southern region


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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