Usage:
Nuwok Member of Sagavanirktok Formation (AK*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene(?)* to Pliocene(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: low bluffs along east side of Carter Creek, Lat. 69 deg. 57 min. N., Long. 144 deg. 39 min. 30 sec. W., about 2.4 km (1.5 mi) south of Camden Bay, northern AK (Detterman and others, 1975).
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.
"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 ([ ]).