Usage:
No current usage.
(†Ignek Formation (AK) abandoned. Rocks reassigned to Seabee Formation and lower part of Kongakut Formation. See Seabee and Kongakut.)
Geologic age:
Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
South side of Red Hill in Ignek Valley at west end of Sadlerochit Mountains, Canning River region, northeastern AK (Leffingwell, 1919).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Northern region
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