Usage:
No current usage.
(†Killik Tongue of †Chandler Formation of Nanushuk Group (AK*) abandoned. Rocks reassigned to upper (nonmarine) Nanushuk Formation. See Nanushuk.)
Geologic age:
Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
East bank of Killik River, between Lat. 68 deg. 52 min. and 68 deg. 55 min. N., Long. 153 deg. 26 min. W., Northern Foothills, northern AK (Detterman, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Northern 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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