Active faults in the Kaikoura region include the Hope,
Kekerengu, and Fidget Faults, and the newly discovered
Jordan Thrust, Fyffe, and Kowhai Faults. Ages of faulted
alluvial terraces along the Hope Fault and the Jor ...
The Upper Devonian Fenstermaker Limestone is a thickening-upward sequence
of interbedded sandy intrapelsparite and subordinate calcareous siltstone and mudstone
which averages 190 ft (58 m) thick in the northern Antelo ...
Elliptical borehole enlargements or "breakouts" caused by systematic spalling of a
borehole wall due to regional maximum horizontal stresses were identified in 18 wells
drilled in the Coast Range and Willamette Valley ...
Castle Rocks is 12 miles east of Mt. Jefferson, in the central
Cascades of Oregon. The area contains volcanic rocks ranging from
mid-Miocene to Holocene in age. These rocks record alternating
periods of tholeiitic and ...