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Geologic Unit: Camille

Usage:

Camille Basalt (AK*)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene(?)*
Wisconsin, late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Imuruk Lake area, Seward Peninsula, AK. Crops out discontinuously from Camille Cone, 24 mi west of junction of Goose Creek and Noxapaga River. Named from Camille Cone (Hopkins, 1963).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska West-Central region*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).