Usage:
Pochnoi Volcanics (AK*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary(?)* or Quaternary*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Well exposed west and north of Pochnoi Point, Semisopochnoi Island, largest of young volcanic islands of western Aleutians. Exposed chiefly in northeast, south, and southwest parts of island, outside central lowland; elsewhere covered by products of later volcanic eruptions. Named from Pochnoi Point, Semisopochnoi Island, western Aleutian Islands, AK (Coats, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southwestern region*
Aleutian Islands province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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