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Shipment No.: A-59-12
Referred by: Loney, R. A.
Report prepared by: Cobb, E. H.
Date: 07/14/1959

(To:) Bob Loney, c/o Alaskan Geology Branch, USGS, P.O. Box 2659, Juneau, Alaska

(From:) E.H. Cobb, Alaskan Geology Branch, USGS, Menlo Park, California

fossils; 59ALy240-F, 59ALy271-F, 59ALy276-F

Charley Merriam is in the field, but Norm Silberling took a quick look at your specimens and gave the following guesses. More work will be required to be sure.

59ALy-240F - Uncertain; Paleozoic or Mesozoic.

59ALy271-F - Same. These will have to go to Washington (Helen Duncan) for any dope that would do you any good.

59ALy276-F - Probably Composita and probably Permian. This will also go to Washington for the full treatment.

Sorry we can't come up with anything better at this time. Oh, yes, Norm thought Charley would have to send the specimens to Washington any how, so they will go now rather than being held here till he gets back.

E.H. Cobb
Geologist in Charge
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59ALy240 , Sitka , Sitka B-1 quadrangle; coordinates: 2.25, 11.3; 2 1/2 airline miles upstream from mouth of creek flowing southwest into the North Arm of Hood Bay, in the southeast fork. Dark gray, massive limestone in 5 to 10-foot beds in gray-black thin-bedded chert and argillite sequence. Loney coll. 1959. (description from E&R report)
Uncertain
59ALy271 , Sitka , Sitka B-1 quadrangle; coordinates: 5.3, 10.45; in stream flowing southeast into main of Pybus Bay, 5 miles from mouth. Dark gray limestone, massive, somewhat sheared; interbedded with thin-bedded grayish black chert and argillite. Loney coll. 1959. (description from E&R report)
Uncertain
59ALy276 , Sitka , Sitka B-1 quadrangle; coordinates: 0.7, 9.65; 1/2 mile up creek from mouth; creek flows northwest into North Arm of Hood Bay. Dark gray, brown-weathering argillite, slightly to moderately calcareous. May be in black chert and dark gray limestone unit, but not in contact here. Loney coll. 1959. (description from E&R report)
probably Composita