Chatanika Ash Bed (AK*)
Tertiary
Pleistocene*
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).
Alaska East-Central region*
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