Usage:
No current usage.
(†Ward Gap Basalt Member of Saddle Mountains Basalt of Columbia River Basalt Group (WA) replaced with Elephant Mountain Member. See Elephant Mountain.)
[Columbia River Basalt Group adopted by the ID, OR, and WA Geol. Surveys, and the USGS (rules suspended).]
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date.
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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