Field Notebook: 2000
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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.