Usage:
No current usage.
(†Ninuluk Formation of Nanushuk Group (AK*) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to lower (marine) Nanushuk Formation. See Nanushuk.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: right bank of Colville River at Ninuluk Bluffs, 20 mi downstream from junction of Killik and Colville Rivers, Lat. 69 deg. 08 min. N., Long. 153 deg. 18 min. W., 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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