Usage:
Beacon Till (WA)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in brick pit on west side of Beacon Hill just south of Spokane Street in Seattle, northwestern WA (Mackin and others, 1950).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province
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