Tuxedni Bay

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1571

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Tuxedni

• Parent Project:

  Lower Cook Inlet (Iniskin Bay-Tuxedni Bay area)

• Status:

  Active

• Description:

  Geologic mapping of the Tuxedni Bay area, lower Cook Inlet, Alaska; STATEMAP grant no. G17AC00211

• Project Date(s):

  2017 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Gillis, Robert J.

• DGGS section:

  Energy Resources

• Project Participants:

  Betka, Paul M., Decker, Paul L., Gillis, Robert J., Harun, Nina, Herriott, Trystan M., Wartes, Marwan A., Willingham, Mandy L., Wypych, Alicja

Related Publications

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PIR 2017-5

Herriott, T.M., and Wartes, M.A., 2017, Discovery of a 35-meter-thick, oil-stained sandstone interval in outcrop of the Tonnie Siltstone Member, Chinitna Formation, lower Cook Inlet, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2017-5, 12 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29837

Posters and Presentations

Herriott, T.M. and others, 2019

Herriott, T.M., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Wartes, M.A., and Gillis, R.J., 2019, Exploring the law of detrital zircon in Alaska’s Cook Inlet: LA-ICPMS and CA-TIMS geochronology of Jurassic forearc strata (presentation): Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, 22–25 September 2019, Phoenix, Arizona: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 16 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30269