Usage:
Blakeley Formation (WA)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in WA: Orchard Point Conglomerate Member, Restoration Point Member.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene to Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Restoration Point, Kitsap Co., west-central WA, opposite Seattle, at entrance to Bremerton Navy Yard. Highest strata crop out on north shores of Blakeley Harbor (Weaver, 1912; 1916; 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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