Plunge Creek

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Plunge Creek is a stream in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. It is a tributary of Upikchak Creek. [1]

Plunge Creek was so named from a nearby "plunging anticline". [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plunge Creek
  2. Geological Survey (U.S.) (1960). Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 54.

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