Usage:
Heceta Limestone (AK*)
Geologic age:
Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on northeast side of Warm Chuck Inlet, including north shore of Heceta Island west of Camp Island, [Lat. 55 deg. 45 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 133 deg. 30 min. W.] southeastern AK (Eberlein and Churkin, 1970).
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.
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