Usage:
basalt of Sentinel Gap (informal) in Frenchman Springs Member of Wanapum Basalt of Columbia River Basalt Group (OR*,WA*)
basalt of Sentinel Gap (informal) in Frenchman Springs Member of Wanapum Basalt of /Yakima basalt subgroup [informal] of Columbia River Basalt Group (OR*,WA*)
Also called flows of Sentinel Gap (informal).
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [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 (middle Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Sentinel Gap, [along Columbia River] between Priest Rapids and Vantage, [in secs. 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16, T. 15 N., R. 23 E., Beverly 7.5-min quadrangle, Kittitas Co., Saddle Mountains], central southern WA (Mackin, 1961).
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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