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Age And Isotopic Investigations Of The Olds Ferry Terrane And Its Relations To Other Terranes Of The Blue Mountains Province, Eastern Oregon And West-Central Idaho, Kyle P. Tumpane

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The Olds Ferry terrane of the Blue Mountains province is one of the numerous accreted terranes that comprise the western North American Cordillera. The Blue Mountains province is located in central and eastern Oregon, western Idaho, and extreme southeastern Washington, and is a crucial link in reconstructions of the North American Cordillera due to its position in an area with few visible terranes between the more extensively exposed terranes to the south in California and Nevada and to the north in Canada and Alaska.

New field evidence and U-Pb zircon geochronology for volcanics within the sedimentary onlap assemblages overlying the …