Usage:
Herendeen Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Reference section: in sec. 14, T. 50 S., R. 73 W., Port Moller D-2 quadrangle (scale 1:63,360), Herendeen Bay, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK (Detterman and others, 1996).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Peninsula province*
Alaska Southwestern 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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).