Pg. 1469 (table 1), 1475, pl. 3. Deming sand. Consists of stratified sand, clay, and gravel lying between Kulshan glaciomarine drift (new) below and Bellingham glaciomarine drift (new) above. At type locality sediments are mostly brown medium- to coarse-grained sand with some interbeds of gray blocky clay 1 to 2 feet thick. At Bellingham Bay, deposits consist of cross-bedded sand with interbedded plastic blue clay and sandy gravel. Some beds contain armored mud balls and shell fragments suggesting beach environment. Peat and wood near base at type locality indicate it is at least in part nonmarine. Occurs at elevation between 40 and 60 feet. Age is late Pleistocene based on stratigraphic relations and radiocarbon ages.
Type locality: along Nooksack River 1.25 mi southeast of Cedarville [Whatcom Co., northwestern WA]. Deming is in Whatcom Co.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 203; Bellingham entry p. 57; Kulshan entry p. 406); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).

Named by Easterbrook (1963) for exposures along Nooksack River, sec.34 T39N R4E, 1.25 mi southeast of Cedarville, [western Whatcom Co, WA]. Deposited as stream sediments when sea level stood 40 to 70 ft above present level. Thickness is about 30 ft. Wood in basal peat at type locality dated at 11,600 yr B.P. Is part of Everson Interstade of Fraser Glaciation. Is Pleistocene age. [about 2.5 mi west of Deming; approx. Lat. 48 deg. 49 min. 50 sec. N., Long. 122 deg. 16 min. 25 sec. W., Whatcom Co., northwestern WA]

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