Lower Colville River, Locality 86/51
Northern Alaska Map | Leaf Fossils |
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Kogosukruk Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation. A yellow sandstone exposed near the river level, planar laminated, flaggy and ripple marked near the top, containing conifer shoots (Parataxodium), a fragment of an angiosperm leaf, wood fragments, sometimes current aligned. This may be a waterlain tuff, the laminations being very continuous and the individual grains are not distinct. At the base of the sandstone is an ironstone concretionary layer with wood and a freshwater bivalve.
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Interactive map of the lower reaches of the Colville River showing plant fossil localities sampled by Smiley (1969) and by Parrish and Spicer in 1986. | ||
Part of the exposure of the Prince Creek Formation (formerly the Kogosukruk Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation) on the western side of the Colville River between Uluksrak Bluff and Ocean Point. |