Usage:
Deer Point Formation (WA)
Geologic age:
Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type area]: exposures on Orcas Island and Lopez Island, southeast San Juan Islands, San Juan Co., northwestern WA (McKee, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province
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