Usage:
Coal Valley Member of Chignik Formation (AK)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures on Staniukovich Mountain above Coal Valley, between Herendeen Bay and Port Moller, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK (Burk, 1965).
Type area: exposures in hills above Coal Valley and southeast of Staniukovich Mountain, Port Moller-Pavlof Bay, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK (Burk, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Peninsula province
Alaska Southwestern region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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