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Geology

2013

Boise State University

Blue Mountains Province

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Age, Provenance, And Structure Of The Weatherby Formation, Eastern Izee Sub-Basin, Blue Mountains Province, Oregon And Idaho, Bryant Douglas Ware May 2013

Age, Provenance, And Structure Of The Weatherby Formation, Eastern Izee Sub-Basin, Blue Mountains Province, Oregon And Idaho, Bryant Douglas Ware

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The terranes of the Blue Mountains province of eastern Oregon and west-central Idaho provide an important link between the geology of the North American Cordillera exposed in Canada and Alaska in the north and Nevada and California in the south. The Izee basin is a volcanic-rich sedimentary sequence onlapping the volcanic arc and accretionary mélange terranes of the Blue Mountains, and comprises the marine flysch Weatherby Formation at its eastern extent. This study sought to establish the stratigraphic and structural relationships between the Weatherby Formation and the proximal Baker and Olds Ferry terranes. Small-scale mapping, structural measurements, and geochronological data …