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).
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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