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 |