Usage:
Satsop Formation (OR,WA*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in Satsop valley, tributary of Chehalis valley [Lat. 46 deg. 58 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 123 deg 28 deg. 48 sec. W., Malone 15-min quadrangle, Grays Harbor Co., WA] (Bretz, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
Columbia basin*
Cascades 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 ([ ]).