A reconnaissance geologic map and analytical data for 70 stream-sediment samples and 34 rock samples for the Anchorage A-6 1:63,360 scale quadrangle are presented in this report, together with a statistical treatment of the geochemical data. The bedrock was mapped and samples collected during the summers of 1969, 1970, and 1971 as part of a continuing U.S. Geological Survey project to map basement rocks in the western Chugach Mountains.
Most of the early work on the bedrock geology of the Anchorage A-6 quadrangle was done by Capps (1916 and 1940), who studied the geology of the Turnagain-Knik region, and by Park (1933), who studied the Girdwood gold mining district, most of which is in the Anchorage A-6 quadrangle. Recent studies of bedrock in the quadrangle and nearby areas are described in papers by Clark and Bartsch (1971a, b) and Clark (in press, a, b).
Grateful acknowledgement is given to several persons who made valuable contributions to this report. They include Henry R. Schmoll and Ernest Dobrovolny who mapped the contacts between bedrock and surficial deposits shown in figure 1, David L. Jones who did the paleontological studies, and Susan R. Bartsch and Pamela S. Morse who participated in the geologic mapping and geochemical sampling.
