Interior western United States (GSA Field Guide 6) by Joel L. Pederson, Carol Merritt Dehler

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1986, The Jesse Ewing Canyon Formation, an interpreted alluvial fan deposit in the basal Uinta Mountain Group (Middle Proterozoic), Utah: The Mountain Geologist, v. 23, no. 3, p. 77–89. , Geologic guidebook of the Uinta Mountains—Utah’s maverick range: Intermountain Association of Geologists and Utah Geological Society 16th Annual Field Conference, p. 143–152. , 1982, Tectonic evolution of lower Proterozoic rocks, Uinta Mountains, Utah and Colorado: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p.

7C). 5 m deep centered above the waterescape structures, which appear to represent areas where the surface lava collapsed into the conduit during water escape. W. Shervais et al. Figure 7. 1B. (A) Panorama of outcrop showing water-escape conduits, rotated columnar jointing, and rubbly fill. (B) Close-up of water escape conduit showing trellis structure and spiny rubble with popcorn texture. (C) Popcorn texture basalt in water conduit. (D) Large (1–2 m) scale steam cavities at base of flow, just above section of megapillows.

Org. W. Shervais et al. 28 high along the length of the plain. In contrast, basaltic volcanism in the western Snake River Plain formed in two episodes: the first (ca. 7–9 Ma) immediately following the eruption of rhyolites lavas now exposed along the margins of the plain, and the second forming in the Pleistocene (≤2 Ma), long after active volcanism ceased in the adjacent eastern Snake River Plain. Pleistocene basalts of the western Snake River Plain are intercalated with, or overlie, lacustrine sediments of Pliocene-Pleistocene Lake Idaho, which filled the western Snake River Plain graben after the end of the first episode of basaltic volcanism.

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