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Geologic Unit: Mount Galen

Usage:

Mount Galen Volcanics (AK*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Eocene, late*
Oligocene, early*


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

Narrow ridge extending from Stony Creek southwest to top of Mount Galen, Mount McKinley [Denali] National Park, Mount McKinley B-1 quadrangle, west central Alaska Range, AK (Decker and Gilbert, 1978).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Southern 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 ([ ]).