Usage:
Sterling Formation of Kenai Group (AK*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, late*
Pliocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): Union Oil Company Sterling Unit No. 23-15 [well], in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 15, T. 15 N., R. 10 W., Seward Meridian, Cook Inlet basin, south-central AK (Calderwood, 1972).
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.
"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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).