Chapters

1. Introduction

• Geologic Setting and Previous Work

2. Basalt Flow Stratigraphy

• Grande Ronde Flows
• Post-Grande Ronde Flows
• Feeder Dikes

3. Structure

• Faults Coincident with the Olympic-Wallowa Lineament
• The Hite Fault System
• Blue Mountains Uplift
• Graben Related Faults
• Shallowly Dipping Faults
• Wanapum Basalt Feeder Dikes
• Interaction Between the Major Fault Systems
• Discussion

4. Conclusions

References

Appendices

A. Descriptions of the five principal stratigraphic sections

B. Chemical analyses by XRF of basalt flows and dikes

C. Slickenside and fault plane data

D. Procedure for field use of the portable fluxgate magnetometer

E. Road log for Tiger Creek Road with fault outcrop descriptions

F. Fault outcrop descriptions for Maps 3 and 4

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Figure 5

Regional stratigraphic nomenclature of the Columbia River Basalt Group from Tolan and others (1989) as modified by Hooper and others (in press). N = normal magnetic polarity; R = reversed magnetic polarity; T = transitional magnetic polarity; E = excursional magnetic polarity.