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Geologic Unit: Kuna

Usage:

Kuna Formation of Lisburne Group (AK*)


Geologic age:

Mississippian, Late* to Pennsylvanian, Early* or Pennsylvanian, Middle*


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

Type section: valley of upper tributary of Kuna River, in SW/4 sec. 21 T. 34 N., R. 5 E., Endicott Mountains, western Howard Pass (1:250,000) quadrangle, northern AK (Mull and others, 1982).
Reference sections (Mull and others, 1982).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Northern 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 ([ ]).