Usage:
Fairbanks Loess (AK*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene*
Holocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures on east side of "Ester Island" mining cut, in SW/4 sec. 8, T. 1 S., R. 2 W., Fairbanks D-3 quadrangle, AK (Pewe, 1975a).
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 ([ ]).