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Geologic Unit: Ogilvie
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Ogilvie Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Yukon-Porcupine province
Publication:

Clough, J.G., 1980, Fossil algae in Lower Devonian limestones, east-central Alaska; Short notes on Alaska geology, 1979-80: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report, no. 63, p. 19-21.


Summary:

Pg. 19, 20 (fig. 1). Ogilvie Formation. Discussion of fossils found in the Ogilvie in the Charley River quadrangle, east-central Alaska and Yukon Territory, Canada. Full description of this unit is probably in R.B. Blodgett's 1978 MS thesis (Biostratigraphy of the Ogilvie Formation and limestone and shale member of the McCann Hill Chert (Devonian), east-central Alaska and adjacent Yukon Territory). Age is Early Devonian.

Source: GNC index card files (USGS-Menlo).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Ogilvie Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Yukon-Porcupine province
Publication:

Clough, J.G., and Blodgett, R.B., 1987, Lower Devonian carbonate facies and platform margin development, east-central Alaska and Yukon Territory, IN Tailleur, I.L., and Weimer, Paul, eds., Alaskan North Slope geology; Volume 1: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, North Slope Seminar II, AAPG/SEPM/SEG Pacific Section annual meeting, Anchorage, AK, May 22-24, 1985, book 50, p. 349-354., Prepared by SEPM Pacific Section and Alaska Geol. Soc


Summary:

Pg. 349, 350, 352, 353 (fig. 3). Ogilvie Formation. Geographically extended (fig. 1) from Canada to east-central Alaska. First defined for exposures in Mount Burgess area, Yukon Territory, and District of Mackenzie by Norris (1967). Early Devonian age documented by Perry and others (1974). Authors describe 7 carbonate facies based on 10 measured sections (fig. 1 shows outcrop locations). Overlies Road River Formation (Ordovician-Devonian); disconformably overlies Jones Ridge Limestone (Ordovician). Correlates with McCann Hill Chert (Devonian). Age is Early and Middle Devonian (Pragian to Emsian, and Givetian).

Source: GNC index card files (USGS-Menlo).


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