Thin-bedded, dark- to medium-gray, commonly cross-bedded, carbonaceous, intercalated, calcareous shale, argillite, sandstone, siltstone, and sandy-to-silty and argillaceous limestone; generally intensely deformed. Basal beds are predominantly fine-grained gray sandstone and siltstone and subordinate cherty limestone that has black chert clasts (Bundtzen and others, 1997a). Age established by conodonts Negondolella polynathiformis and Epigondolella primitia and the occurrence of the pelecypod Monotis cf. M. subcircularis (Csejtey and others, 1992; Bundtzen and others, 1997a). Extensively exposed both north and south of the McKinley strand of the Denali Fault System. Distinguished from other Late Triassic carbonate units, such as the Chitistone and Nizina Limestones, by turbiditic depositional character, lack of evaporite or sabkha facies rocks, inclusion of clastic debris, and intense deformation. Rocks in eastern and southern exposures are metamorphosed to greenschist and amphibolite facies in the MacLaren metamorphic belt of Smith and Turner (1974), and we tentatively include unit sq of the MacLaren terrane of Nokleberg and others (1992a) in this unit. Metamorphosed sedimentary rocks in the Mount Hayes quadrangle of the Aurora Peak terrane of Nokleberg and others (1992a, unit as) are correlated with these rocks and are shown as such here. Associated with this unit are large dikes, sills, and plugs of altered diabase and gabbro