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  • Usage in publication:
    • Baada Point Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Siltstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Olympic Mountains province
Publication:

Snavely, P.D., Jr., Niem, A.R., MacLeod, N.S., Pearl, J.E., and Rau, W.W., 1980, Makah Formation; a deep-marginal-basin sequence of late Eocene and Oligocene age in the northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington, IN Shorter contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1162-B, 28 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp1162B]


Summary:

Named Baada Point Member, lowest member of Makah Formation, from exposures at Baada Point. Consists of light olive-gray, weathering yellow-brown, thick-bedded, amalgamated turbidite, ridge-forming sandstone with siltstone interbeds and calcareous concretions. Is 120 m thick at type. Gradationally overlies and underlies unnamed strata in lower part of Makah Formation. Age is late Eocene.
Type section: wave-cut platform and headland at Baada Point, SE/4 NW/4 sec. 12, T. 33 N., R. 15 W., Strait of Juan de Fuca, Clallam Co., WA. Named from Baada Point.

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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