Geologic Unit: White Hills

Usage:

White Hills Member of Sagavanirktok Formation (AK*)

Geologic age:

early Tertiary (late Paleocene? to early Eocene)*

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

Type section (lower part): exposures in stream cut in northwestern White Hills, in E/2 sec. 5, T. 2 N., R. 10 E. [Sagavanirktok C-5 quadrangle, scale 1:63,360], northern AK (Mull and others, 2003).
Reference section [composite]: (1) lower part, on southeast side of the White Hills in a meander of the Toolik River, in NW/4 sec. 28 and NE/4 sec. 29, T. 2 N., R. 12 E. [along bdry. btw. Sagavanirktok C-4 and B-4 quadrangles, scale 1:63,360], northern AK; (2) upper part, a short distance south of Franklin Bluffs, in W/2 sec. 27, T. 5 N., R. 14 E. [along southern bdry. Sagavanirktok D-3 quadrangle, scale 1:63,360], northern AK (Mull and others, 2003).
Named from White Hills, a prominent rolling upland area on Arctic Coastal Plain, 12–35 mi west of the Sagavanirktok River and 45 mi southwest of Prudhoe Bay, northern Alaska (Mull and others, 2003).

AAPG geologic province:

Alaska Northern region*