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Geologic Unit: Chatanika

Usage:

Chatanika Ash Bed (AK*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Pleistocene*


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

Type section: exposures in 15-m-high cutbank of Chatanika River, 2 km downstream from Elliott highway bridge, 40 km north of Fairbanks, in NW/4 sec. 15, T. 3 N., R. 1 W., Livengood A-2 quadrangle (scale 1:63,360), AK (Pewe, 1975).


AAPG geologic province:

Alaska East-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 ([ ]).