Marine sedimentary rocks (ORTm;0)

Marine sedimentary rocks

Massive, thick-bedded sandstone with minor interbeds of siltstone; local fossiliferous conglomerate lenses. Includes principally the Empire Formation of Baldwin (in Beaulieu and Hughes, 1975), originally considered of Pliocene age, but, on the basis of contained molluscan assemblage, now restricted to a late Miocene age (Addicott, 1983)

State	Oregon
Name	Marine sedimentary rocks
Geologic age	Late Miocene to Early Pliocene
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed) Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate (Bed)
References	Walker, G.W. and MacLeod, N.S., 1991, Geologic map of Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000. Beaulieu, J.D., and Hughes, P.W., 1975, Environmental geology of western Coos and Douglas Counties, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Bulletin 87, 148 p. Addicott, W.O., 1983, Biostratigraphy of the marine Neogene sequence at Cape Blanco, southwestern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 774-G, p. G1-G20. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp774G
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 16259
Counties	Coos

Marine sedimentary rocks

Walker, G.W. and MacLeod, N.S., 1991, Geologic map of Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000.

Beaulieu, J.D., and Hughes, P.W., 1975, Environmental geology of western Coos and Douglas Counties, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Bulletin 87, 148 p.

Addicott, W.O., 1983, Biostratigraphy of the marine Neogene sequence at Cape Blanco, southwestern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 774-G, p. G1-G20.