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Geologic Unit: Bead Lake

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Bead Lake Formation of Newport Group (WA) abandoned. Rocks included in Belt Supergroup, [possibly Prichard Formation]. See Belt.)


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from Bead Lake, [Bead Lake and Skookum Creek 7.5-min quadrangles], Pend Oreille Co., northeastern WA (Schroeder, 1952).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Cascade Range-Okanagan province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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