The Jeanie Point complex revisited
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Abstract
The so-called Jeanie Point complex is a distinctive package of rocks within the Orca Group, a Tertiary turbidite sequence. The rocks crop out on the southeast coast of Montague Island, Prince William Sound, approximately 3 km northeast of Jeanie Point (loc. 7, fig. 44). These rocks consist dominantly of fine-grained limestone and lesser amounts of siliceous limestone, chert, tuff, mudstone, argillite, and sandstone (fig. 47). The Jeanie Point rocks also differ from those typical of the Orca Group in their fold style. Thus, the Orca Group of the area is isoclinally folded on a large scale (tens to hundreds of meters), whereas the Jeanie Point rocks are tightly folded on a 1- to 3- m-wavelength scale (differences in rock competency may be responsible for this variation in fold style).
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | The Jeanie Point complex revisited |
| Series title | Circular |
| Series number | 868 |
| DOI | 10.3133/70180305 |
| Year Published | 1984 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Alexandria, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | 3 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Report |
| Larger Work Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Larger Work Title | The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1981 (Circular 868) |
| First page | 75 |
| Last page | 77 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Other Geospatial | The Jeanie Point complex |
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