Usage:
Slide Member of Chuckanut Formation (WA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): (1) logging road S-1000 on Slide Mountain, in sec. 4 and 9, T. 39 N., R. 6 E.; (2) logging road 400 on the southeast side of Canyon Creek, north of the North Fork of Nooksack River, in W/2 sec. 36, T. 40 N., R. 6 E.; and (3) logging road SP-410 on the northeast side of Canyon Creek, in SE/4 sec. 25, T. 40 N., R. 6 E., Whatcom Co., WA (Johnson, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Puget Sound province
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