Lower Cook Inlet (Iniskin Bay-Tuxedni Bay area)

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1614

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Iniskin-Tuxedni

• Parent Project:

  Cook Inlet geology and hydrocarbon potential

• Status:

  Active

• Description:

  Combined map production effort for the adjacent STATEMAP project areas of Iniskin Peninsula, Tuxedni Bay and Red Glacier.

• Project Date(s):

  2013 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Gillis, Robert J.

• DGGS section:

  Energy Resources

• Project Participants:

• Active Related Sub-Projects:

  • • Iniskin Peninsula - (2013)
  • • Red Glacier - (2015)
  • • Tuxedni Bay - (2017)

Related Publications

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PIR 2019-5

Herriott, T.M., Wartes, M.A., O'Sullivan, P.B., and Gillis, R.J., 2019, Detrital zircon maximum depositional dates for the Jurassic Chinitna and Naknek Formations, lower Cook Inlet, Alaska: A preliminary view: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2019-5, 11 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30180

Posters and Presentations

Herriott, T.M. and others, 2017

Herriott, T.M., Wartes, M.A., Stanley, R.G., Decker, P.L., Helmold, K.P., and Harun, N.T., 2017, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Chinitna Formation, Iniskin-Tuxedni bays area, south-central Alaska -- Late Middle Jurassic depositional systems and petroleum prospectivity in Cook Inlet forearc basin (poster): American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK, 22–24 May 2017: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/29757