Usage:
Coast Mountains Complex (AK*)
Geologic age:
Cretaceous and Tertiary*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Type area: broad transect (about 40 km wide) extending for about 80 km across the Coast Mountains near Juneau, AK, from Douglas Island on the south-southwest to the International Boundary with British Columbia, Canada, on the north-northeast. Named from the Coast Mountains physiographic province (Brew and others, 1995).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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