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The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by ...
The lowlands south of Puget Sound were home to an extensive region of prairies. [4] These ecosystems have since been greatly reduced in size due to the repurposing of these lands for agriculture, grazing, industry, and urban development.
The term "Puget Sound" is used not just for the body of water but also the Puget Sound region centered on the sound. Major cities on the sound include Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Everett. Puget Sound is also the second-largest estuary in the United States, after Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. [8]
The Pleistocene ice age glaciation of Puget Sound created many of the geographical features of the region, including Puget Sound itself, [1] and the erratics are one of the remnants of that age. [2] According to Nick Zentner of Central Washington University Department of Geological Sciences, "Canadian rocks [are] strewn all over the Puget ...
Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between 350–450 feet (110–140 m) and rarely more than 500 feet (150 m) above sea level.
The Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland [1]) of western Washington contains the bulk of the population and economic assets of the state, and carries seven percent of the international trade of the United States. [2] All this is at risk of earthquakes from three sources: [3]
Washing up on the shoreline of places like Fox Island or growing out of clay flats at Point Defiance, clay babies can take decades or centuries to form, former University of Puget Sound geology ...
With a volume of 3.8 km 3 (0.91 cu mi) and an areal extent of about 550 km 2 (210 sq mi), the Osceola Mudflow buried a large portion of the Puget Sound lowland with hydrothermally altered volcanic material that is estimated to have been traveling at 70 km/h (43 mph) up to 50 km (31 mi) downstream from the source region.