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Sample: Sample No. 51AHa2 -- USGS No. Mesozoic loc. 22716
Locality: Field No. 51AHa2
Description: About 3/4 mile up Diable Creek above junction with Difficult Creek and about 5 miles west of Fossil Point on Tuxedni Bay. (description from E&R report of Imlay dated Dec. 20, 1951; Shipment AF-51-42)[Transmittal sheet of Hartsock, dated Nov. 30, 1951 provides further details: "Traverse point 8H, about 3/4 miles up Diablo Creek from mouth (Diablo Creek is a short, steep tributary to Difficult Creek on south side of Tuxedni Bay). Pelecypods found in float of lower Tuxedni sandstone, Mid. Jurassic age; origin in cliffs not far above."][Shown as locality 35 on Pl. 3 of Detterman and Hartsock, 1966 - Note by R.B. Blodgett: digitization of this point gives approx. lat. 60o 09'56" N., 152o 47'36" W.]
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Kenai A-8
Lat.: 60o09'56 " Long.: 152o47'36 "
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1951 (12/20)
The only fossil of stratigraphic value in the three lots from the Difficult member of the Tuxedni formation is an ammonite mold in lot 51AHa6. A clay squeeze of this ammonite compares closely with the adult whorls of Erycites from the basal beds of the Kialagvik formation on Wide Bay. You may recall that Don Miller and I found Erycites associated with Tmetoceras and Pseudolioceras at localities 48 AI 77 and 78 at a spot about 2.6 miles N. 77 W. of Fossil Point. This occurrence is about 350 feet above the highest lava beds and slightly lower stratigraphically than your lot 51AHa6. In Europe Tmetoceras characterizes the basal part of the Bajocian stage. The other genera occur in both the lower part of the Bajocian and the upper part of the Toarcian. From these occurrences it is evident that the thick lava sequence on Tuxedni Bay occupies the stratigraphic position of the Lower Jurassic.

The Gaikema member is represented certainly by lots 51AHa11a, b, c as shown by the presence of the ammonities Emileia, Lissoceras, and Sonninia. The same species were obtained on the south shore of Tuxedni Bay in unit 33 of the section measured by Stanton and Martin (see U.S.G.S. Bull. 776, p. 142) as shown by specimens in lots 3009 and 21263.

The Fitz Creek member is represented by lots 51AHa9 and 10 as shown by the presence of species of Stemmatoceras and Oppelia identical with species obtained on the south shore of Tuxedni Bay in unit 19 of the section measured by Stanton and Martin. Grantz found the same species of Stemmatoceras in his lot 51AGz136, which is a short distance northeast of your localities.

The correlations of these members have been discussed in previous memoranda and are shown by charts in your possession.

Report by: Ralph W. Imlay
Referred by: John K. Hartsock
Age: Bajocian
Formation: Tuxedni Group (Tuxedni Formation, "Difficult" member)
Comment:Fossils from the "Difficult" member

The only fossil of stratigraphic value in the three lots from the Difficult member of the Tuxedni formation is an ammonite mold in lot 51AHa6. A clay squeeze of this ammonite compares closely with the adult whorls of Erycites from the basal beds of the Kialagvik formation on Wide Bay. You may recall that Don Miller and I found Erycites associated with Tmetoceras and Pseudolioceras at localities 48 AI 77 and 78 at a spot about 2.6 miles N. 77 W. of Fossil Point. This occurrence is about 350 feet above the highest lava beds and slightly lower stratigraphically than your lot 51AHa6. In Europe Tmetoceras characterizes the basal part of the Bajocian stage. The other genera occur in both the lower part of the Bajocian and the upper part of the Toarcian. From these occurrences it is evident that the thick lava sequence on Tuxedni Bay occupies the stratigraphic position of the Lower Jurassic.

Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves Meleagrinella sp.
2 Bivalves Tancredia sp.
3 Bivalves Camptonectes sp.

Title: Geology of the Iniskin-Tuxedni Region, Alaska ,  1966
Report by: Robert L. Detterman , John K. Hartsock
Age: Bajocian
Formation: Red Glacier Formation
Comment:Geographic location: Hungryman Creek, Difficult Creek
Map reference (pl. 3): 35
Stratigraphic position below top of formation (ft): 1800
all above data from Table 4, p. 25
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves Camptonectes sp.
2 Bivalves Tancredia sp.
3 Bivalves Meleagrinella sp.