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Geologic Units: Detroit
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Detroit till
    • Detroit glacial stage
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Till
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Western Columbia basin
Publication:

Thayer, T.P., 1939, Geology of the Salem Hills and the North Santiam River basin, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Bulletin, no. 15, 40 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:31,680)


Summary:

Pg. 20, 23-24. Detroit glacial stage defined as time during which Detroit till was deposited. All exposures of till are small. Age is Pleistocene.
Till crops out in North Santiam River just above bridge and on Quartzville Trail, in a roadcut 0.5 mi southwest of Berry, where highway crosses Breitenbush River southwest of Detroit, Marion Co., northwestern OR.

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