Usage:
Seabee Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Coniacian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
["Type section"] (subsurface): depth-interval 545 to 2,040 ft, Umiat Test Well No. 11, 2.5 mi west-northwest of Umiat Mountain, northern AK (Whittington, 1956).
Reference section (= type section of †Shale Wall Member): Shale Wall Bluff on west bank of Nanushuk River, between sec. 2, T. 5 S., R. 5 E. and sec. 35, T. 4 S., R. 5 E., at Camp W-June 25-47, about 35 mi southeast of Umiat, [approx. Lat. 69 deg. 03 min. N., Long. 150 deg. 53 min. W.], Chandler River region, northern AK (Detterman and others, 1963; Mull and others, 2003).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Northern region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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