Usage:
Cape Foulweather Basalt (OR*,WA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (middle Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures along a 7 km long strip from Otter Crest on Cape Foulweather north to Government Point, Cape Foulweather 15-min quadrangle, Lincoln Co., northwestern OR (Snavely and others, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Oregon-Washington Coast Ranges province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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