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Stratigraphic range: Upper Miocene
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks
Quadrangle or area: Mt. Fairweather (D-6) quadrangle, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-77-33M
Referred by: Morrell, R. P.
Report prepared by: Marincovich, Louie , Jr.
Date: 08/29/1977

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77RM017C , Mt Fairweather , From a locality along the southern margin of Fairweather Glacier, five miles due east (inland) from Cape Fairweather, lituya District, southeastern Alaska. The outcrop is composed of graywacke and silstone interlayered in beds from 2 mm to 10 m thick; beds are oriented N33W, dip 42 E, and are not overturned. Vertical trace fossil burrows occur, as do carbonaceous inclusions.
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Territella (Neohaustator) hamiltonensis Clark
Periploma (Aelga) besshoense (Yokoyama)
Clinocardium sp.
77RM017F , Mt Fairweather , From a locality along the southern margin of Fairweather Glacier, five miles due east (inland) from Cape Fairweather, lituya District, southeastern Alaska. The outcrop is composed of graywacke and silstone interlayered in beds from 2 mm to 10 m thick; beds are oriented N33W, dip 42 E, and are not overturned. Vertical trace fossil burrows occur, as do carbonaceous inclusions.
Lituyapecten sp.