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Geologic Unit: Sentinel Hill

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Sentinel Hill Member of Schrader Bluff Formation of †Colville Group (AK*) reallocated to Schrader Bluff Formation. See Schrader Bluff.)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Bluffs along northwest side of Colville River, from 5 to 15 mi northeast of Umiat Mountain, northern AK (Whittington, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Northern region*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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