Unit is named the Alkali Canyon Formation of the Dalles Group. Consists of vitric tuff, silty clay, silt, and basalt gravel alluvial fan and braided stream deposits in the Arlington basin. Conformably and unconformably overlies units of the Columbia River Basalt Group and the Ellensburg Formation; underlies Quaternary loess. Age is late Miocene and early Pliocene(?) based on fossils [vertebrates]. (B1565)
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
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