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Shale, mudstone, and sandstone (Jurassic)

Black to gray shale, mudstone, and sandstone with local lenses of pebble conglomerate. Overlies Josephine ophiolite of Harper (1980) (unit Ju)
StateOregon
NameShale, mudstone, and sandstone (Jurassic)
Geologic ageLate Jurassic
Original map labelJss
CommentsUnit is correlative with and lithologically similar to the Galice Formation.
Primary rock typemudstone
Secondary rock typegraywacke
Other rock typesconglomerate; chert
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone > Graywacke (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone (Bed)Commonly metamorphosed to slate or phyllite
Incidental
Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert (Bed)Present in basal part of unit
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate (Bed)
Map references
Walker, G.W. and MacLeod, N.S., 1991, Geologic map of Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000.
Unit references
Walker, G.W. and MacLeod, N.S., 1991, Geologic map of Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000.
Irwin, W.P., 1994, Geologic map of the Klamath Mountains, California and Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2148, scale 1:500,000.
Harper, G.D., 1983, A depositional contact between the Galice Formation and a Late Jurassic ophiolite in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon: Oregon Geology, v. 45, no. 1, p. 3-9.
Harper, G.D., 1980, Structure and petrology of the Josephine Ophiolite and overlying metasedimentary rocks, northwestern California: Berkeley, Calif., University of California, Ph.D. dissertation, 281 p.
Geographic coverageJosephine

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