Usage:
No current usage.
(†Grandstand Formation of Nanushuk Group (AK*) abandoned. Rocks reassigned to middle transitional marine and nonmarine part of Nanushuk Formation. See Nanushuk.)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Left bank of Anaktuvuk River where river breaches Grandstand anticline, Lat. 68 deg. 56 min. N., Long. 151 deg. 10 min. W., northern AK (Detterman, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Northern region*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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