Usage:
Red Glacier Formation of Tuxedni Group (AK*)
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): along both sides of Red Glacier. Upper 3,310 ft exposed along south side, 4.5 mi S. 62 deg. E. of Diamna Volcano; lower 1,230 ft is on north side of glacier, 6.5 mi N. 86 deg. E. of Iliamna Volcano, [lower] Cook Inlet region, southwestern AK. Thickness 1,980 ft at Tuxedni Bay, 18 mi north of Red Glacier; about 6,500 ft thick in subsurface under Iniskin Peninsula. Named from Red Glacier (Detterman, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southwestern region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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