page_title: Hood Canal
section_title: Geology
hierarchical_section_title: Hood Canal / Geology
caption_attribution_description: Cropped version of the single breaching orca picture from Hood Canal. May 2005.
context_page_description: Hood Canal is a fjord forming the western lobe, and one of the four main basins, of Puget Sound in the US state of Washington. It is one of the minor bodies of water that constitute the Salish Sea. Hood Canal is not a canal in the sense of being a man-made waterway—it is a natural waterway.
context_section_description: Hood Canal and the rest of Puget Sound were created about 13,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, by the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet.
caption: An orca, or killer whale, porpoising in the canal
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