Usage:
Kaltag Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures on northwest bank of Yukon River between Kaltag and Williams Mine, lower Yukon and Norton Bay districts, west-central AK. Named from Kaltag (Martin, 1926; Patton, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska West-Central region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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