Usage:
Depoe Bay Basalt (OR*,WA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrop belt from 1.5 km north to 2.5 km south of bridge over entrance to inner harbor of Depoe bay, and from eastern shoreline of outer bay to the inner bay, in sec. 5, 8, and 17, T. 9 S., R. 11 W., Cape Foulweather 15-min quadrangle, Lincoln Co., 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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