Usage:
Woodchopper Volcanics (AK*)
Geologic age:
Devonian, Early*
Devonian, Middle(?)*
Devonian, Late(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops along both banks of Yukon River from mouth of Coal Creek, Woodchopper Creek on downstream extending on south bank just beyond mouth of Thanksgiving Creek, Eagle-Circle district, east-central AK (Mertie, 1930; Churkin and others, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Alaska East-Central region*
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