The northwest-trending Neogene Tualatin basin in northwestern Oregon is a pull-apart
basin with approximately 750 m of post-middle Miocene structural relief. Gently
tilted uplands capped by Columbia River Basalt Group surround the synclinal basin on all
sides. Integrated gravity, aeromagnetic, and seismic reflection data indicated that the
basin is underlain...
In the area surrounding Clarno, Oregon, pre-Cretaceous metamorphics, Cretaceous marine sediments, and a varied assemblage of Tertiary volcanic rocks are known. The oldest exposures are of an homogeneously fine-grained, mildly metamorphosed, limy shale to which the term "Muddy Ranch phyllite" is applied. Non-metamorphosed, Cretaceous marine shales and graywackes, approximately 1500...
The thesis area is located in north-central Oregon approximately 20 km west of the town of Mitchell. The rocks exposed in the area belong to the Clarno Formation. This study supports the informal reclassification of the Clarno to Group status, composed of an Upper and Lower Clarno Formation. An angular...
The northwestern corner of the Basin and Range Province (NWBR) lies in southeast Oregon where extensive Late Miocene, mafic to bimodal basalt-rhyolite volcanism and extensional faults dominate a stark and arid landscape. Near Lake Abert, the Late Miocene volcanic section abuts Early Miocene, dominantly intermediate composition volcanoes at the Coleman...
Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the southern Tyee basin, Oregon Coast Range, reveals
that the lower to middle Eocene forearc and subduction zone strata comprise four depositional
sequences. Sequence I (lower Umpqua Group) represents a partially subducted accretionary
wedge. Sequence II (upper Umpqua Group) is a deltaic sequence that filled irregular...
New data are presented that provide evidence for the onset of extensional deformation in the Northwestern Basin and Range within 1 million years after the eruption of the Steens Basalt at 16.5 Ma. New geologic mapping (1:24,000), stratigraphic sections, and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the Crane Basin rocks provide a control...