Usage:
Perseverance Slate (AK*)
Geologic age:
Late Triassic* (protolith age)
Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary* (metamorphic age)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Perseverance Camp, just east of Juneau, southeastern AK (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southeastern 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 ([ ]).