Usage:
Padden Member of Chuckanut Formation (WA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle to Eocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): along Bellingham Bay, on the south and north limbs of the Chuckanut syncline, in sec. 25 and W/2 sec. 13, T. 37 N., R. 2 E., Whatcom Co., WA. Named from Lake Padden (Johnson, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province
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