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ALASKA GEOLOGY 
points of land from another cove, which in this report will 
be referred to as West Cove, it having no local name so 
far as recorded by the charts. 
Stepovak Bay lies north of the group known as the 
Shumagin Islands and southeast of Port Moller, a large 
bay on the north shore of the peninsula, connected with 
Bering Sea. A portage from the head of West Cove can 
be made to the shore of Port Moller, with a length of 
about four miles. 
At the head of Chichagof Cove a gravel beach and 
meadow nearly cut off from the sea a large tidal lagoon, 
beyond which a stretch of meadow extends to the foot of 
the hills, one of which nearly north of the lagoon has 
been named by Dr. Palache Chichagof Peak. It rises to a 
height of some 3000 feet. The hills rise abruptly from the 
meadow. A more detailed description and sketch map 
are supplied by Dr. Palache in his notes on the geology 
and petrography of the locality, elsewhere in this volume. 
The rocks in this vicinity so far as observed belong to 
the Eocene, their age being determined by the fossils 
herein discussed. They comprise breccias, sandstones 
and shales, more or less fossiliferous, though the fossils 
exist chiefly in the form of casts and are often distorted by 
shearing movements of the matrix, due to the volcanic 
disturbances to which the region is known to have been 
subjected. 
The Mesozoic beds which presumably underlie these 
Eocene sediments crop out on the shores of Port Moller 
immediately to the northwest, and there, in 1874, the 
writer collected a number of fossils which were described 
by Dr. C. A. White in 1884. 1 These comprise species 
of Belemnites , Cyfirina and Aucella . 
On the peninsula which separates the head of Port 
Moller from Herendeen Bay immediately to the westward, 
1 Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 4, pp. 10-15. 
