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Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene
Kinds of fossils: Plant-wood
Quadrangle or area: Beechey Point 1:250,000, Northern Alaska
Shipment No.: A-70-2D
Referred by: Detterman, Robert L.
Report prepared by: Scott, R. A.
Date: 03/19/1970

This report deals with 2 specimens of wood from your field locality 70ADt162, from the Prudhoe Bay State #1 well, 585-600'.


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Brief statement of problem and remarks (from collector):
This wood was brought up with well cuttting from a depth of 585 to 600 feet. It was in unconsolidated sand and gravel of probable Pleistonece age. We want to obtain a Carbon-14 analysis, and want to know what kind of wood.
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70ADt162 , Beechey Point , From the Prudhoe Bay State # 1 well, 585-600'.
Picea sp.
Indet. conifer of the family Pinaceae