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Younger glacial drift

Advance and recessional outwash, stratified drift, and associated deposits. Primarily silt, sand, and gravel with some clay. Includes alluvium locally and scabland deposits of eastern Washington.
StateWashington
NameYounger glacial drift
Geologic agePleistocene
Original map labelQg1o
CommentsPrincipally Wisconsin in age. Includes outburst flood deposits from glacial Lake Missoula in the Channeled Scablands.
Primary rock typeoutwash
Secondary rock typestratified drift
Other rock typesalluvium
Lithologic constituents
Minor
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel (Glacial, esker)
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt (Glacial, outwash)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand (Glacial, outwash)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel (Glacial, outwash)
Incidental
Unconsolidated (Alluvial)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand (Glacial, esker)
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay (Glacial, outwash)
Map references
Huntting, M. T., Bennett, W. A. G., Livingston, V. E. Jr., Moen, W. S., 1961, Geologic Map of Washington: Washington Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:500,000.
Unit references
Huntting, M. T., Bennett, W. A. G., Livingston, V. E. Jr., Moen, W. S., 1961, Geologic Map of Washington: Washington Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:500,000.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1976a, Quaternary Geology of the Pacific Northwest, in Mahaney, W.C., ed., Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America: Stroudsberg, PA, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, p. 441-462.
Schuster, J. E., 1994, Geologic Map of the Walla Walla 1:100,000 quadrangle, Washington: Washingtone State Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open-File Report 94-3, 18 p.
Schuster, J. E., Gulick, C.W., Reidel, S. P., Fecht, K. R., Zurenko, S., 1997, Geologic Map of Washington--Southeast Quadrant: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Geologic Map GM-45, scale 1:250,000.
Bretz, J. H., 1923, The Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau: The Journal of Geology, v. 31, no. 8, p. 617-649.
Stoffel, K. L., Joseph, N. L., Waggoner, S. Z., Gulick, C. W., Korosec, M. A., Bunning, B. B., 1991, Geologic Map of Washington--Northeast Quadrant: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Geologic Map, GM-39, scale 1:250,000.
Jones, M. A., 1999, Geologic Framework for the Puget Sound Aquifer System, Washington and British Columbia: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1424-C, 31 p., 18 pls.
Geographic coverageAdams - Benton - Columbia - Douglas - Franklin - Grant - King - Kitsap - Kittitas - Lewis - Lincoln - Mason - Pierce - Skagit - Snohomish - Spokane - Thurston - Walla Walla - Whatcom - Whitman

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