- Usage in publication:
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- Astoria sandstones
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Oregon-Washington Coast Ranges province
Summary:
Pg. 223-227. Astoria sandstones. Series of sandstones on both sides of river above Astoria, though beds developed on north or right bank. The sandstone are granular, brittle, or friable, sometimes very compact and hard, usually brownish. Included in Astoria group. Dana regards the sandstones more recent than the shales, and this is strengthened by fact that fissures in the shales are filled with sand resembling that of which the sandstones are composed. Present in northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Age is Miocene. [See also under †Astoria group.]
Named from Astoria, Clatsop Co., northwestern OR.
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