Usage:
No current usage.
(†Sunrise Group (AK) considered same as Valdez Group. See Valdez.)
Geologic age:
Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near mining district of Turnagain Arm and vicinity of which Sunrise City is center, southern AK (Mendenhall, 1900).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Southern region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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