Slana Spur and Station Creek Formations and Tetelna Volcanics

Unit symbol: PIPt
Age range lower Permian to Middle Pennsylvanian (323.2 to 272.3 Ma)
Lithology: Sedimentary
Group name: Skolai and Mankomen Groups, undivided
Lower volcanic section chiefly submarine andesite and basalt flows, locally pillowed and brecciated; upper volcaniclastic section generally grades upward from coarse volcanic breccia to abundant volcanic graywacke and finally to volcanic lutite. No fossils are known in the type area. Age assignment is constrained by overlying Hasen Creek Formation (unit Peh) and stratigraphic and lithologic correlation with the Slana Spur Formation (Nokleberg and others, 1992a). As here mapped, includes units Pzt and IPt (Tetelna Volcanics) of Nokleberg and others (1992a). Unit Pzt of Nokleberg and others (1992a) consists of andesitic flows, mud and debris avalanches, and aquagene tuff interbedded with fine- to coarse-grained volcaniclastic rocks; this unit has yielded fragments of late Paleozoic bryozoans. The Tetelna Volcanics is similar, and consists chiefly of dark-green, dark-gray-green, and purplish-gray-green volcanic flows, locally graded mud and debris avalanches, and lapilli-pumice tuff interbedded with fine- to coarse-grained volcaniclastic rocks. In the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Permian conodonts were collected from unit Pzv (Csejtey and others, 1978). Metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies. As here mapped, unit also includes greenstone of the Skolai Group in the Valdez quadrangle (Winkler and others, 1981) and early Permian(?) and Pennsylvanian andesitic volcanic rocks in the Healy quadrangle (Csejtey and others, 1992). Locally, may also include rocks that could be assigned to the Nikolai Greenstone (Trn) following more detailed mapping (J.M. Schmidt, written commun., 2007)

Source map information

Source map Nokleberg, W.J., Aleinikoff, J.N., Lange, I.M., Silva, S.R., Miyaoka, R.T., Schwab, C.E., and Zehner, R.E., with contribution for selected areas from Bond, G.C., Richter, D.H., Smith, T.E., and Stout, J.H., 1992, Preliminary geologic map of the Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 92-594, scale 1:250,000 [Received as CAD coverage produced in 1996].
Symbol PIPsl
Unit name Slana Spur Formation -- Volcaniclastic rocks member
Description Dark-gray, dark-green, and maroon volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. Chiefly volcanic flows interbedded with lapilli tuff, volcanic breccia, graywacke, argillite, and limestone to marble. Local massive to bedded conglomerate, graywacke, and siltstone. Metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies.
Lithology Metamorphic

Correlated geologic units

Label Pzv
Description Slana Spur Formation, volcaniclastic rocks, Early Permian-Middle Penn. [equivalent to part of Station Creek Fm.]
Geologic age Pennsylvanian to Cisuralian
Geologic setting Extrusive
Lithology Form Importance
Mafic-volcanic < Volcanic < Igneous Volcaniclastic Indeterminate, major
Mafic-volcanic < Volcanic < Igneous Flow Indeterminate, major
Greenstone < Metaigneous < Metamorphic Indeterminate, major
Phyllite < Metaclastic < Metasedimentary < Metamorphic Zeolitic (prehnite-pumpellyite) Indeterminate, major
Conglomerate < Clastic < Sedimentary Bed Indeterminate, major
Marble < Metacarbonate < Metasedimentary < Metamorphic Zeolitic (prehnite-pumpellyite) Minor
Mudstone < Clastic < Sedimentary Bed Minor