The late Cenozoic evolution of the Columbia River system in the Columbia River flood basalt province
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Published:August 01, 2013
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Stephen P. Reidel, Terry L. Tolan, 2013. "The late Cenozoic evolution of the Columbia River system in the Columbia River flood basalt province", The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province, Stephen P. Reidel, Victor E. Camp, Martin E. Ross, John A. Wolff, Barton S. Martin, Terry L. Tolan, Ray E. Wells
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The Columbia River system is one of the great river systems of North America, draining much of the Pacific Northwest, as well as parts of the western United States and British Columbia. The river system has had a long and complex history, slowly evolving over the past 17 m.y. The Columbia River and its tributaries have been shaped by flood basalt volcanism, Cascade volcanism, regional tectonism, and finally outburst floods from Glacial Lake Missoula. The most complex part of river development has been in the northern part, the Columbia Basin, where the Columbia River and its tributaries were controlled by...
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The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province

GeoRef
- anticlines
- basalts
- Cenozoic
- Columbia River Basalt Group
- Columbia River basin
- drainage patterns
- flood basalts
- floods
- folds
- Grande Ronde Basalt
- Idaho
- igneous rocks
- Lake Missoula
- Miocene
- Neogene
- Oregon
- paleochannels
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- Ringold Formation
- Saddle Mountains Basalt
- sedimentary rocks
- subsidence
- synclines
- Tertiary
- tributaries
- United States
- upper Cenozoic
- volcanic rocks
- volcanism
- Wanapum Basalt
- Washington