Usage:
Eshamy Granite (AK*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Practically surrounds Granite Bay and occupies nearly all of neck of land between Granite and Eshamy Bays, Prince William Sound, southern AK (Grant and Higgins, 1910).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southern 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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