Usage:
Weissenfels Ridge Member of Saddle Mountains Basalt of Columbia River Basalt Group (ID*,WA*)
Weissenfels Ridge Member of Saddle Mountains Basalt of /Yakima basalt subgroup [informal] of Columbia River Basalt Group (ID*,WA*)
[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:
Type locality: roadcuts along Weissenfels Ridge, in NW/4 sec. 24 (projected) and NE/4 sec. 23 (projected), T. 9 N., R. 46 E., Captain John Rapids quadrangle, Asotin Co., southeastern WA (Swanson and others, 1979).
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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