- Usage in publication:
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- Grangeville Member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Basalt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Idaho Mountains province
Summary:
Grangeville Member of Saddle Mountains Basalt of Columbia River Basalt Group. Present only on uplifted Nez Perce platform of the Clearwater embayment in Idaho. Consists of medium- to coarse-grained olivine basalt that erupted from dikes cutting the Nez Perce plateau in Rocky canyon; has reverse magnetic polarity. Overlies the basalt of Weippe in the Pomona Member and underlies Craigmont Member (new), both of Saddle Mountains Basalt. Age is late Miocene.
Type locality: Grangeville, near South Fork of Clearwater River, [Grangeville East 7.5-min quadrangle], Idaho Co., ID.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1565, p. 122); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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