Usage:
Buford Member of Saddle Mountains Basalt of Columbia River Basalt Group (OR*,WA*)
Buford Member of Saddle Mountains Basalt of /Yakima basalt subgroup [informal] of Columbia River Basalt Group (OR*,WA*)
[Yakima basalt subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized. "Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Columbia River Basalt Group adopted by the ID, OR, and WA Geol. Surveys, and the USGS (rules suspended).]
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: about 7.5 km northeast of Flora, OR, in small quarry on east side of Highway 3 at 4,020 ft (1,225 m) elevation, in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 2, T. 5 N., R. 44 E., Flora quadrangle, Wallowa Co., extreme northeast OR (Swanson and others, 1979, citing Walker, 1973).
Reference locality: above a white tuff in roadcut along Highway 129, 8 km northeast of Anatone, WA, in SE/4 NW/4 sec. 5, T. 8 N., R. 46 E., Weissenfels Ridge quadrangle, southeast WA (Swanson and others, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Eastern Columbia basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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