Siletz River Volcanics

The Siletz River Volcanics, located in the Oregon Coast Range, United States, are a sequence of basaltic pillow lavas that make up part of Siletzia.

[1][2] The basaltic pillow lavas originally came from submarine volcanoes that existed during the Eocene.

Potassium argon dating gives ages of 58.1 ± 1.5 to 50.7 ± 3.1 Ma; Selandian to Ypresian.

[3] The volcanics occur in the following counties of western Oregon: Benton, Coos, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook, Washington and Yamhill.

[2] The sedimentary beds at the Ellendale Basalt and Portland Cement Company Quarries, interbeds in the upper part of the Siletz River volcanics, have provided fossils of the archaeogastropods Pleurotomaria (Entemnotrochus) baldwini, P. (E.) schencki and P. (E.) siletzensis.