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Columbia River Basalt
87
SERIES
GROUP
SUB-
GROUP
FORMATION
MEMBER
K-Ar AGE
(m.y.)
MAGNETIC
POLARITY
MIocene
UPPER
MIDDLE
BASALT
RIVER
YAKIMA
SADDLE
MOUNTAINS
BASALT
LOWER MONUMENTAL MEMBER
6
N
EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
ICE HARBOR MEMBER
Basalt of Goose Island
Basalt of Martindale
Basalt of Basin City
8.5
N
R
N
EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
BUFORD MEMBER
R
ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN MEMBER
10.5
R, T
EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
POMONA MEMBER
12
R
EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
ESQUATZEL MEMBER
N
EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
WEISSENFELS RIDGE MEMBER
Basalt of Slippery Creek
Basalt of Tennile Creek
Basalt of Lewiston Orchards
Basalt of Cloverland
N
N
N
ASOTIN MEMBER
13
N
Basalt of Huntzinger
LOCAL EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
WILBUH CREEK MEMBER
Basalt of Lapwal
Basalt of Wahluke
N
N
UMATILLA MEMBER
Basalt of Sillusl
Basalt of Umatilla
N
N
LOCAL EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
PRIEST RAPIDS MEMBER
14.5
R
Basalt of Lolo
Roza MEMBER
T, R
FRENCHMAN SPRINGS MEMBER
Basalt of Lyons Ferry
Basalt of Sentinel Gap
Basalt of Sand Hollow
Basalt of Silver Falls
Basalt of Ginkgo
Basalt of Palouse Falls
15.3
15.5
N
N
N
N, E
E
ECKLER MOUNTAIN MEMBER
Basalt of Shumaker Creek
Basalt of Dodge
Basalt of Robinette Mountain
N
N
N
GRANDE
RONDE
PICTURE
GORGE
BASALT
(See Mangan and others, 1986;
Reidel, 1983 for individual flows)
15.6-16.5
N2
R2
N1
BASALT
R1
IMNAHA
BASALT
(See Hooper and others, 1984)
16.5-17.0
R1
T
N0
R0
Figure 2. Stratigraphy of the Columbia River Basalt Group. Modified from Swanson and others (1979)
by Reidel and Fecht (1987). Natural remanent magnetization indicated by: N=normal, R=reversed,
T=transitional, and E=excursional.
cf. Reidel, S.P. and Fecht, K.R. 1986. The Huntzinger
Flow: evidence of surface mixing of the Columbia
River Basalt and its petrogenetic implications.
Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 98: 664-677.