Usage:
Telsitna Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: northeast-trending ridge along divide between head of Telsitna River and Paradise Fork, in secs. 17, 19, and 20, T. 18 S., R. 27 E., Medfra D-2 quadrangle (scale 1:63,360), west-central AK (Dutro and Patton, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska West-Central region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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