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Stratigraphic range: Oligocene?, Miocene, Pliocene
Kinds of fossils: Palynomorphs
Quadrangle or area: Mt. Hayes A-3, A-4, C-4, C-5, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-74-9D
Referred by: Weber, Florence R.
Report prepared by: Wolfe, Jack A.
Date: 12/14/1976

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74AWr77A, B, C , Mt Hayes , D5379-A, B, C (74AWr77A, B, C). At the mouth of Hoodoo Creek, tributary of Dan Creek. Outcrops of the lignitic sandstone-clay section are present in bluffs at mouth of Hoodoo Creek. Two white ash beds are present, probably in the axis of a sharp anticlinal flexure. The lower bed, K-Ar dated as 5.2 m.y., is 1-6 in. thick and the upper, 20 feet higher in the section, is 6 in.-2-1/2 feet thick. Latitude 63 degs. 13 min. N, Longitude 145 degs. 26 min. 06 sec. W.
Picea
Pinus
Alnus
Betula
Myrica
Epilobium
Compositae
74AWr94B , Mt Hayes , North side of McCallum Creek just downstream from site road bridge. Latitude 63 degs. 13 min. 27 sec. N, Longitude 145 degs. 37 min. 44 sec. W.
74AWr87 , Mt Hayes , D5381 (74AWr87). North of Phelan Creek. A sample from the lignitic claystone-ss unit at a location half-way between McCallum and Dan Creeks. This was collected near (the upper?) ash bed at the top of the unit. Latitude 63 degs. 13 min. 40 sec. N; Longitude 145 degs. 34 min. 00 sec. W.
Picea
Pinus
Alnus
Betula
Compositae
74AWr99A, B , Mt Hayes , D5380A, B (74AWr99A, B). Jarvis Creek coal mine. A-from 3 feet above the main coal seam; B-just below top thin (of 3) coal bed and about 2 feet below base of thickest sandstone exposed at the top of cut. Latitude 63 degs. 34 min. 40 sec. N; Longitude 145 degs. 42 min. 31 min sec. W.
Taxodiaceae/Cupressaceae
Picea
Pinus
cf. Cedrus
Tsuga
Alnus
Betula
Ostrya
Carpinus
Fagus
Carya
Juglans
Pterocarya sp.
Myrica
Ulmus
Zelkova
Ilex
Acer
Ericales
Diervilla
74AWr73C , Mt Hayes , D5382 (74AWr73C). Approximately 1 mile SW of Mt. Pillsbury. Remnant of Tertiary coal-bearing clay, sandstone and conglomerate preserved in a small graben-like trough on the north side of the Hines Creek Strand of the Denali Fault System. Latitude 63 degs. 34 min. 18 sec. N; Logitude 146 degs. 03 min. 45 sec. W.
Picea
Pinus
Tsuga
aff. Cedrus
Taxodiaceae/Cupressaceae
Alnus
Betula
Juglans
Pterocarya