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Sample No. F-37a -- USGS No. Mesozoic loc. 19970
Locality:
Field No. F-37a
Description:
[Shown as locality 58 on Detterman and Hartsock, 1966][Entry in USGS Mesozoic Fossil Locality register (Washington, D.C.) provides following description: "F-37a. Tuxedni, Gaikima. SW Alaska, Cook Inlet region, Iniskin Peninsula. North side of Gaikima Creek about 2400 feet below the mouth of South Fork, about 1.45 miles N 82
o
W of mouth of Fitz Creek. Strat. Pos. 50 feet strat. below 19969 and 330 feet below top of the Gaikima sandstone member. Lithology - conglomeratic sandstone. Coll. Wedow and Kellum N.B. Kellum #2, Sept. 1944.]
Location:
Alaska Quadrangle:
Iliamna
D-1
Reference
Title:
Geology of the Iniskin-Tuxedni Region, Alaska
, 1966
Report by:
Robert L. Detterman
,
John K. Hartsock
Age:
Bajocian
Formation:
Gaikema Sandstone
Comment:
Geographic location: Gaikema Creek
Map reference (pl. 3): 58
Stratigraphic position below top of formation (ft): 500
all above data from Table 5, p. 28
Occurrence(s)
No.
Group
Name
Qty
Notes
1
Bivalves
Inoceramus sp.