Usage:
Moose Creek Member of Totatlanika Schist (AK*)
Geologic age:
Mississippian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in small canyon tributary to Moose Creek from north, Lat. 63 deg. 59 min. 00 sec. N., Long. 148 deg. 06 min. 00 sec. W., Healy D-3 quadrangle (scale 1:63,360), AK (Wahrhaftig, 1968).
Reference section: exposures along ridge between headwaters of Sheep and Last Chance Creeks, about 4 to 5 mi southwest of type locality (Wahrhaftig, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southern region*
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