Usage:
Root Glacier Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
On hillside east of upper part of McCarthy Creek, McCarthy C-5 quadrangle (scale 1:63,360), southern AK (MacKevett, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southern 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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