Table 1. Correction of Pliocene and Pleistocene marine transgressions of western and northern Alaska (after Marincovich and Powell, 1991).
Age (Hopkins 1965, 1967, Carter et al. 1986) Bering Sea (Kaufman et al. 1989, Hopkins, written common., 1990 in Marincovich and Powell 1991) Western and northern Alaska (Brouwers et al. 1984) Skull Cliff (northwest Alaskan coast) (Brigham 1985, these units are all informal) Arctic Coastal Plain (Carter et al. 1986)
<4 ka Krusensternian Flandrian Flandrian
circa. 25 ka Middle Wisconsin
90–105 ka Flaxsman Fm. Simpsonian
120–130 ka Pelukian Pelukian Walakpa beds Pelukian
circa. 500 ka Anvilian Kotzebuan Karmuk beds Wainwrightian
>1.5 Ma, <2.4 Ma Beringian III Fishcreekian Tuapaktushak beds Fishcreekian
>2.4 Ma Beringian II Anvilian Killi Creek beds Bigbendian
<3.5 Ma Beringian I Beringian Nulavik beds Colvillian