Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided

Unit symbol: Qs
Age range Quaternary (1.806 to 0 Ma)
Lithology: Unconsolidated
Group name: Unconsolidated and poorly consolidated surficial deposits
Unconsolidated, poorly to well-sorted, poorly to moderately well-stratified deposits; consist predominantly of alluvial, colluvial, marine, lacustrine, eolian, and swamp deposits. May include some glacial deposits. Also includes widespread glacial and periglacial deposits that consist of end, lateral, and ground moraine, outwash, rock glacier deposits, and other glacial and periglacial deposits as well as glacially scoured bedrock that may be covered with thin, glacially derived deposits. These glacial deposits are of Holocene and Pleistocene age and may include small areas of potentially latest Tertiary deposits. Map unit locally includes reworked volcanic debris as well as block and ash flows. On generalized map, shown as part of unit QTs

Source map information

Source map Wilson, F.H., Weber, F.R., Dochat, T.M., Miller, T.P., and Detterman, R.L., 1997, Revised geologic map of the Cold Bay and False Pass quadrangles, Alaska Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-866, 34 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Symbol Qls
Unit name Landslide and slump deposits
Description Deposits have poorly to well-developed lobate morphology and consist of poorly sorted rock fragments ranging in size from large, coarse, subangular fragments to fine sand and silt. Only larger landslide and slump deposits are mapped separately
Lithology Unconsolidated

Correlated geologic units

Label Qls
Description Landslide deposits
Geologic age Pleistocene to Holocene
Geologic setting Unconsolidated
Lithology Form Importance
Boulders < Coarse-detrital < Unconsolidated Landslide Major
Gravel < Coarse-detrital < Unconsolidated Landslide Major
Silt < Fine-detrital < Unconsolidated Landslide Minor
Clay < Fine-detrital < Unconsolidated Landslide Incidental