Siletz River Volcanics
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Siletz River Volcanics, located in the Oregon Coast Range, United States, are a sequence of basaltic pillow lavas that make up part of Siletzia.[1][2] The basaltic pillow lavas originally came from submarine volcanoes that existed during the Eocene.
Description
The Paleocene to Eocene volcanics consist of volcanism flows and sills of tholeitic to alkalic basalts with associated tuff breccia, siltstone and sandstone. The flows are vesiculated with zeolite filled amygdules.
The volcanics originated as oceanic crust and seamounts. Potassium argon dating gives ages of 58.1 ± 1.5 to 50.7 ± 3.1 Ma; Selandian to Ypresian.[2]
The sequence has been divided into a lower pillowed tholeiitic unit and an upper porphyritic alkali basalt unit.[3]
The volcanics occur in the following counties of western Oregon: Benton, Coos, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook, Washington and Yamhill.[2]
Fossil content
The sedimentary beds at the Ellendale Basalt and Portland Cement Company Quarries, interbeds in the upper part of the Siletz River volcanics, have provided fossils of the archaeogastropods Pleurotomaria (Entemnotrochus) baldwini, P. (E.) schencki and P. (E.) siletzensis.[4]
See also
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- Coldwater Beds of British Columbia
- Golden Valley Formation of North Dakota
- Hanna Formation of Wyoming
- Indian Meadows Formation of Wyoming
- Margaret Formation of Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut
- Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia
- Paskapoo Formation of Alberta
- Wasatch Formation of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah
- Washakie Formation of Colorado and Wyoming
- Willwood Formation of Wyoming
References
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- ↑ Siletz River Volcanics at Fossilworks.org
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Bibliography
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Further reading
- Baldwin, E.M., 1974, Eocene stratigraphy of southwestern Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Bulletin 83, 40 p.
- Duncan, R.A., 1982, A captured island chain in the coast Range of Oregon and Washington: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 87, p. 10, 827–10, 837
- Snavely, P.D., MacLeod, N.S., and Wagner, H.C., 1973, Miocene tholeiitic basalts of coastal Oregon and Washington and their relations to coeval basalts of the Columbia Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 84, p. 387–424
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- Paleogene geology of Oregon
- Volcanism of Oregon
- Paleocene volcanism
- Paleocene Series of North America
- Selandian Stage
- Thanetian Stage
- Bridgerian
- Tiffanian
- Wasatchian
- Eocene volcanism
- Eocene Series of North America
- Ypresian Stage
- Oregon Coast Range
- Yellowstone hotspot
- Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean
- Siltstone formations of the United States
- Sandstone formations of the United States
- Tuff formations of the United States
- Paleontology in Oregon
- Benton County, Oregon
- Coos County, Oregon
- Douglas County, Oregon
- Lane County, Oregon
- Lincoln County, Oregon
- Polk County, Oregon
- Tillamook County, Oregon
- Washington County, Oregon
- Yamhill County, Oregon
- Geologic formations of Oregon