Chemical discrimination of Columbia River basalt flows
1. Introduction [2] The Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) is a Miocene continental flood basalt province that covers approximately 200,000 km 2 (77,000 square miles) in southeastern Washington, northeastern Oregon, and western Ido [Swanson et al., 1979; Tolan et al., 1989; Hooper, 1997].While of an order of magnitude smaller and younger than other classic continental flood basalt provinces