Structural Geology of the Northeast Quarter of the Dutchman Butte Quadrangle, Southwest Oregon

Author

Rauno K. Perttu, Portland State University

Sponsor

Portland State University. Department of Earth Sciences

First Advisor

Gilbert Thomas Benson

Date of Publication

4-13-1976

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Geology

Department

Earth Science

Language

English

Subjects

Geology -- Oregon -- Douglas County

DOI

10.15760/etd.2439

Physical Description

1 online resource. Digitized photocopy of typescript, illustration, maps in pocket.

Abstract

The northeast quarter of the Dutchman Butte quadrangle straddles the boundary of the Mesozoic Klamath Mountains province and the Tertiary Coast Range province. The boundary in this area is controlled by a major easttrending fault zone, herein named the Canyonville fault zone. Jurassic Rogue, Dothan, and Otter Point Formations have been offset right-laterally at least 40 kilometers. In latest Jurassic and early Cretaceous time, the fault zone formed the shoreline along which sediments of the Myrtle Group were deposited.

Movement on the Canyonville fault zone becale down-to-the-north in Eocene time forming the southern margin of the Eocene Coast Range basin. Rocks of the lower to middle Eocene Roseburg and Lookingglass Formations thin and pinch-out, and become shallow marine to nonmarine in character southward across the fault zone. Fault movement decreased in Lookingglass time, and essentially ceased by Tyee (middle Eocene) time.

Eocene structures in the thesis area formed contemporaneously with sedimentation; individual structures controlled and were controlled by the stratigraphy of the Eocene units.

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Comments

Maps as additional files.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15830

Recommended Citation

Perttu, Rauno K., "Structural Geology of the Northeast Quarter of the Dutchman Butte Quadrangle, Southwest Oregon" (1976). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2442.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2439