Usage:
Sagavanirktok Formation (AK*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in AK*: Franklin Bluffs Member, Nuwok Member, Sagwon Member, White Hills Member.
In Prudhoe Bay area, AK (subsurface): Staines Tongue.
Geologic age:
Tertiary (Paleocene to Pliocene?)*; locally Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Franklin Bluffs, along lower part of Sagavanirktok River, northern AK (Gryc and others, 1951).
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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