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Geologic Unit: Bellingham

Usage:

Bellingham Drift (WA*)


Geologic age:

Pleistocene*


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

Named for occurrence in vicinity of Bellingham and Bellingham Bay, Puget Lowland, northwestern WA (Easterbrook, 1963).
Type locality: in sec. 34, T. 39 N., R. 4 E., 8 mi northeast of Bellingham, Whatcom Co., northwestern WA (Easterbrook, 1967).


AAPG geologic province:

Bellingham basin*


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 ([ ]).