Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Sand Bay Agglomerate of Sand Bay Volcanics (AK) considered invalid.)
[An identical geographic name may not be applied to a stratigraphic unit and its parts (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021); invalid hierarchy.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Occurs in southern part of Great Sitkin Island in central part of Aleutian Islands. [Type locality not designated. Named from Sand Bay in northeast part of Adak 1:250,000 quadrangle, Aleutian Islands, southwestern AK] (Simons and Mathewson, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
Aleutian Islands province
Alaska Southwestern 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 ( ).
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