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Geologic Unit: Kugruk

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Kugruk Volcanics (AK) is synonym of Imuruk Volcanics. See Imuruk.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary, late
Quaternary
Pleistocene, early


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

Cliffed east wall of canyon of Kugruk River, 3 mi below Imruk Lake, north-central Seward Peninsula, west-central AK (Hopkins, 1963).


AAPG geologic province:

Seward Peninsula 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 ([ ]).