Usage:
Burroughs Mountain Drift (WA*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Holocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: moraine in center of West Fork Valley, 1 km southwest of Garda Falls and 2.5 km northwest of summit of Burroughs Mountain, Pierce Co., WA (Crandell and Miller, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province*
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 ([ ]).