Usage:
Spiral Butte Andesite (WA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Pliocene
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date. Crops out on both sides of White Pass Highway from summit to 3 mi east of Spiral Butte and on west and northwest of Tumac Plateau, Yakima Co., WA (Ellingson, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Cascades province
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