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 calc-alkaline volcanism.
The oldest rocks in the area range from basaltic andesite lava
flows to...
Detailed mapping and geochemical analysis of Oligocene to early
Pliocene volcanic rocks in the Little Walker volcanic center, Mono
County, California have revealed a complex eruptive history. After
eruption of widespread rhyolitic ash flows of the Valley Springs
Formation in the Oligocene, Miocene to early Pliocene volcanism of
the western...
The Clarno Formation is a series of volcanic, volcaniclastic, and related intrusive rocks located in central Oregon. It is the westernmost extent of a broader Eocene magmatic belt that covers much the western United States. The magmatic belt stretches eastward from Oregon to western South Dakota, and from the Canadian...
Steens Mountain is a major horst block near the northern terminus of the Basin and Range geomorphic province of southeastern Oregon. A section of Miocene volcanic rocks totaling 5000 feet in thickness are exposed in a fault escarpment on the eastern side of Steens Nountain. These include: the Pike Creek...
The northwest one-quarter of the Prineville Quadrangle is
underlain by Tertiary and Quaternary volcanic and volcaniclastic
rocks of the Columbia River Basalt Group, and the Clarno, John Day,
Rattlesnake and Deschutes Formations.
The Clarno Formation is dominated by pyroxene-bearing
andesites, but also contains olivine-bearing basalts, oxyhornblende-bearing
dacite and rhyodacite flows...