Usage:
Port Refugio Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at Port Refugio on northeast side of Suemez Island and includes west shore of Ulloa Channel from Port Refugio to Adrian Cove, AK (Eberlein and Churkin, 1970).
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.
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