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1987

Geology -- Oregon -- Tualatin River Valley

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A Seismic Refraction Study Of A Portion Of The Northeastern Margin Of The Tualatin Valley, Oregon, David John Nazy Jan 1987

A Seismic Refraction Study Of A Portion Of The Northeastern Margin Of The Tualatin Valley, Oregon, David John Nazy

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The Tualatin Valley is a well defined elliptical basin centered at Hillsboro, with a major axis trending roughly N65°W. The valley is bordered on the northeast by the Tualatin Mountains (Portland Hills) which are a faulted, northwest-trending asymmetrical anticline. Topographic and geophysical evidence have defined the Portland Hills fault, which occurs along the northeast side of the Tualatin Mountains. The possibility that a fault or fault zone occurs along the southwest side of the Tualatin Mountains was investigated in this study.