Largely consists of granite and lesser granodiorite distributed around the Gulf of Alaska, from the Lime Hills quadrangle in the west to as far as the Ketchikan quadrangle in southeast Alaska. Rocks tend to be light-gray, medium- to coarse-grained, leucocratic biotite granite and granodiorite. Larger stocks commonly grade from marginal zones containing more biotite (and locally hornblende) to more leucocratic zones inward; large parts of some intrusions are porphyritic and contain orthoclase phenocrysts in a medium-grained groundmass (Tysdal and Case, 1979; Nelson and others, 1999). Common textures are allotriomorphic granular and hypidiomorphic granular. In southeast Alaska, consists of biotite ± hornblende ± pyroxene granite, alkali granite, quartz monzonite, and subordinate syenite, granodiorite, and diorite (Berg and others, 1988; S.M. Karl, unpub. data). Radiometric ages range from about 37 to 23 Ma