Usage:
Tiger Mountain Formation of Puget Group (WA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: south slope of Tiger Mountain and north slope of Taylor Mountain, in SW/4 sec. 9, sec. 16, S/2 sec. 17, N/2 sec. 20, and N/2 sec. 21, T. 23 N., R. 7 E., King Co., WA (Vine, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).