Usage:
Canning Formation (AK*)
Subunits:
Mikkelsen Tongue (AK*).
Geologic age:
Cretaceous (Albian to Campanian) and early Tertiary (Paleocene to Oligocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 5,830 to 11,980 ft, Mobil Oil Company West Staines State No. 2 well, in sec. 25, T. 9 N., R. 22 E., [Flaxman Island quadrangle, northern AK]. Named from Canning River, which flows along much of western boundary of ANWR coastal plain, northern AK (Molenaar and others, 1987).
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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