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  • Usage in publication:
    • Slide Creek member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Basalt
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Blue Mountains province
    • Columbia basin
Publication:

Thayer, T.P., 1957, Some relations of later Tertiary volcanology and structures in eastern Oregon, IN Vulcanologia del Cenozoico; Section 1: International Geological Congress, 20th, Report, Mexico City, 1956, no. 1, p. 231-245.


Summary:

Unit is named for flows in the lower part of Strawberry volcanics (new). Name derived from the valley of Slide Creek 3 mi east of Strawberry Mountain, Grant Co., OR. Described as Columbia River type flow and believed to be [lithologic] equivalent of Columbia River basalt at Picture Gorge. Age is middle Miocene.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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