Usage:
Spruce Creek Formation (AK)
Geologic age:
Paleozoic(?) and Cretaceous(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at head of Spruce Creek, headwaters of Kugruk River (in T. 1 N., R. 19 W.) Bendeleben quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, AK (Sainsbury, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska West-Central region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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