Usage:
Sheep Bay Granite (AK*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date. Occupies northeast third of point of land separating Port Gravina from Sheep Bay, Prince William Sound, southern AK (Grant and Higgins, 1910).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southern region*
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