Mineral resources of the Home Creek wilderness study area, Harney County, Oregon

Book · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:7003976

Vander Meulen, D B; Griscom, A; King, H D; Vercoutere, T L; Moyle, P R

This book discusses the Home Creek Wilderness Study Area, on the western slope of Steens Mountain in the northern Basin and Range physiographic province of southeastern Oregon. The area is underlain by Miocene Steens Basalt. Isolated outcrops of the Devine Canyon ash-flow tuff unconformably overlie the Steens Basalt. Pleistocene shoreline deposits and Holocene dunes are exposed in the western part of the study area, moderate potential for sand and gravel resources in lake shoreline deposits, and low potential for geothermal energy throughout the study area.

• OSTI ID: 7003976
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BASALT
CENOZOIC ERA
ELEMENTS
EXPLORATION
FEDERAL REGION X
GEOLOGIC AGES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
METALS
MINERAL RESOURCES
MIOCENE EPOCH
NORTH AMERICA
OREGON
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH
QUATERNARY PERIOD
RESOURCE POTENTIAL
RESOURCES
ROCKS
SILVER
TERTIARY PERIOD
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
TUFF
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