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Geologic Unit: Kiska Harbor

Usage:

Kiska Harbor Formation (AK*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene, late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section [composite]: (1) pyroclastic facies in bluff north of Trout Lagoon at head of Kiska Harbor; (2) lava flow facies at Stredi Point, Kiska Island, Rat Island group, Aleutian Islands, AK (Coats and others, 1961).


AAPG geologic province:

Aleutian Islands 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 ([ ]).