Usage:
Oonatut Granite Complex (AK*)
Oonatut Complex (AK)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Serpentine Hot Springs area in headwater region of Serpentine River, Bendeleben D-6 and D-5 quadrangles (scale 1:63,360), north-central Seward Peninsula, AK (Hudson, 1979).
Oonatut is a local Eskimo term meaning "place where hot water exists" (C. Weyiounna, written commun., 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska West-Central region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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