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Geologic Unit: Fox

Usage:

Fox Gravel (AK*)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene, early*
or
Pleistocene, middle*


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

Exposures in mining cut near town of Fox, in Goldstream Valley, in SE/4 sec. 31, T. 2 N., R. 1 E., Fairbanks D-2 quadrangle, 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 ([ ]).