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Columbia River Basalt
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SERIES GROUP SUB-GROUP FORMATION MEMBER K-Ar AGE (m.y) MAGNETIC POLARITY
MIocene
UPPER LOWER MONUMENTAL MEMBER 6 N
EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
ICE HARBOR MEMBER 8.5
Basalt of Goose Island N
Basalt of Martindale R
Basalt of Basin City 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 N
Basalt of Tenmile Creek N
Basalt of Lewiston Orchards N
Basalt of Cloverland N
ASOTIN MEMBER 13 N
Basalt of Huntzinger
LOCAL EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
WILBUR CREEK MEMBER
Basalt of Lapwai N
Basalt of Wahluke N
UMATILLA MEMBER
Basalt of Sillusi N
Basalt of Umatilla N
LOCAL EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY
PRIEST RAPIDS MEMBER 14.5 R
Basalt of Lolo R
Basalt of Rosalia
ROZA MEMBER T, R
FRENCHMAN SPRINGS MEMBER 15.3 N
Basalt of Lyons Ferry N
Basalt of Sentinel Gap N
Basalt of Sand Hollow N,E
Basalt of Silver Falls 15.5 E
Basalt of Ginkgo
Basalt of Palouse Falls
ECKLER MOUNTAIN MEMBER
Basalt of Shumaker Creek N
Basalt of Dodge N
Basalt of Robinette Mountain N
N2
GRANDE RONDE R2
PICTURE GORGE BASALT (See Mangan and others, 1986; Reidel, 1983 for individual flows) 15.6-16.5 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=excursionall.