The Steens Basalt: Earliest lavas of the Columbia River Basalt Group

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 497, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-116

  Camp, Victor E ^a   Ross, Martin E ^b   Duncan, Robert A ^c   Jarboe, Nicholas A ^d   Coe, Robert S ^d   Hanan, Barry B ^a   Johnson, Jenda A ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; FLOODS; GEOMAGNETISM; RIVERS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; EFFUSION RATES; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TRANSITION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; MID-CRETACEOUS; PETROGENETIC RELATIONSHIP; SELECTIVE CRUSTAL CONTAMINATIONS;

BASALT;

DIKE; FLOOD BASALT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LAVA; LAVA FLOW; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; THOLEIITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

OREGON; STEENS MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887215563     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2013.2497(04)     Document Type: Article

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