Usage:
Ghost Rocks Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous and Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures along north coast of Sitkalidak Island, southwest of Kodiak Island, directly opposite Ghost Rocks across Sitkalidak Strait and extending from Amee Bay to McDonald Lagoon, southwestern AK (Moore, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southwestern region*
Kodiak Island*
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).