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Columbia River flood basalts

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"The basalt cliffs forming the walls of the canyon are part of the Grande Ronde sequence, which erupted from great fissures near the Washington-Idaho border over a period of about a million years. This was during the Miocene, mainly about 16 million years ago." (see reference)

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Columbia River Basalt Group

The Columbia River Basalt Group is the youngest, smallest and one of the best-preserved continental flood basalt province on Earth, covering over 210,000 km (81,000 sq mi) mainly eastern Oregon and Washington, western Idaho, and part of northern Nevada.[1] The basalt group includes the Steen and Picture Gorge basalt formations.

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