Usage:
Northcraft Formation of Puget Group (WA*)
Northcraft Formation (WA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed along road that parallels Salmon Creek, in sec. 2 and NW/4 sec. 1, T. 15 N., R. 1 W., Thurston Co., southwestern WA (Snavely and others, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Oregon-Washington Coast Ranges province*
Puget Sound province*
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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 ([ ]).