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Bulletin No. 62

Foraminifera, Stratigraphy, and Paleoecology of the Quinault Formation, Point Grenville-Raft River Coastal Area, Washington

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Foreword

Abstract

Introduction

Location and access
Field work and acknowledgments
Purpose, method of study, and scope
Previous work

General geology

Areal extent of the Quinault Formation
Associated rocks
   Older rocks
   Younger beds
Measured sections
   Section north of Point Grenville
   Section south of Taholah
   Cape Elizabeth section
   Duck Creek-Pratt Cliff section
Regional considerations, structural and stratigraphic

Age and correlation

General statement
Local correlations—southwest Washington
   Ocean City area
   Montesano area
Southern California, a west coast standard
Other west coast areas
   Oregon
   Northern California
   San Francisco peninsula
   Santa Maria district

Paleoecology

General statement
Section north of Point Grenville
Section south of Taholah
Cape Elizabeth section
Duck Creek-Pratt Cliff section

Foraminifera

General statement
Systematic discussion

References cited


ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

1. Foraminifera, Quinault Formation, Washington (omitted from the online edition)
2. Foraminifera, Quinault Formation, Washington
3. Foraminifera, Quinault Formation, Washington

FIGURE

1. Index map
2. Section north of Point Grenville
3. Section south of Taholah
4. Cape Elizabeth section
5. Duck Creek-Pratt Cliff section
6. Suggested correlations of the four measured sections of the Quinault Formation
7. Suggested correlation of the stratigraphy of the Quinault Formation and that of the Montesano Formation
8. Miscellaneous collecting localities north of the Raft River

CHECKLIST OF FORAMINIFERA (omittted from the online edition)



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