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Geologic Unit: Nulato

Usage:

Nulato Formation (AK*)


Geologic age:

late Early to early Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not synopsized to date. Typically exposed in northwest bank of Yukon River for 2 to 10 mi above Nulato, lower Yukon and Nulato Bay districts, west-central AK (Martin, 1926).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).