Usage:
No current usage.
(†Niakogon Tongue of †Chandler Formation of Nanushuk Group (AK*) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to upper (nonmarine) Nanushuk Formation. See Nanushuk.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: northeast bank of Killik River, 10 mi upstream from its confluence with Colville River, Lat. 68 deg. 58 min. N., Long. 153 deg. 33 min. W., northern AK. Named from Niakogon Buttes, between Chandler and Anaktuvuk Rivers, Northern Foothills, northern AK (Detterman, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska Northern region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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