Usage:
Hoodoo Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures southeast of Hoodoo Mountain and along west side of Beaver Valley, Port Moller-Pavlof Bay area, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern AK. Eastward from type area formation crops out almost continuously for 25 mi, nearly to Chicagof Peak, and is folded locally into series of complex warps (Burk, 1965).
Reference section: on ridge north of Foot Bay, starting in southwest corner of sec. 30 and continuing south along west border of sec. 31, T. 47 S., R. 60 W., Chignik A-3 quadrangle (scale 1:63,360), 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.
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