Usage:
No current usage.
(†Kushtaka Formation (AK) replaced with Kulthieth Formation. See Kulthieth.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene
Oligocene(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date. Named from exposures in valley of Bering River and on shores of Lake Kushtaka, Controller Bay region, southern AK (Martin, 1905).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southern region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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