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    Basalt is a city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States. The population was 394 at the 2010 census. The first settlement at Basalt was made in 1885....
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    Oregon and Washington, western Idaho, and part of northern Nevada. The basalt group includes the Steens and Picture Gorge basalt formations. During the middle...
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  • Hepburn, Australia Basalt River, Queensland, Australia Basalt, Colorado, a city in the US Basalt, Idaho, a city in the US Basalt, Nevada, a populated...
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    Columbia Plateau (category Landforms of Idaho)
    across parts of the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. It is a wide flood basalt plateau between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains,...
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    (lake) sediments; the sediments are underlain by rhyolite and basalt, and overlain by basalt. The western plain began to form around 11–12 Ma (million years...
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  • The Imnaha Basalt is a geologic formation in Idaho. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Earth sciences portal Paleontology portal...
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    volcanic rocks exists in many places on Earth. Perhaps the most famous basalt lava flow in the world is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, in which...
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    Basalt is a home rule municipality located in Eagle and Pitkin counties, Colorado, United States. The town population was 3,984 at the 2020 United States...
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  • Committee. Petrology and Chemistry of the Rock Creek Flow, Columbia River Basalt, Idaho "Dedication to Peter R. Hooper (1931–2012)". Geological Society of America...
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    site of Idaho Falls became a permanent settlement when freighter Matt Taylor built a timber-frame toll bridge across a narrow black basaltic gorge of...
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    southeastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, and southern Idaho, flood basalt flows of extremely fluid basaltic lava spread in all directions from long fissures...
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    Yellowstone hotspot (category Volcanism of Idaho)
    Range, Nevada; 15.5 to 16.5 Ma; Tuffs: Idaho Canyon, Ashdown, Summit Lake, and Soldier Meadow. Columbia River Basalt Province: Yellowstone hotspot sets off...
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    000 years ago by lava flows in southeast Idaho. In the Columbia Basin about 10.5 Ma, the Elephant Mountain basalt eruption forced the Salmon-Clearwater River...
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  • unincorporated community near Idaho Falls in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States. It is part of the Idaho Falls, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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    basins. It is named for the Columbia Plateau, a flood basalt plateau formed by the Columbia River Basalt Group during the late Miocene and early Pliocene....
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    Moscow (/ˈmɒskoʊ/ MOSS-koh) is a city and the county seat of Latah County, Idaho. Located in the North Central region of the state along the border with...
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    Columnar jointing (category Columnar basalts)
    Devils Postpile in California and the Columbia River flood basalts in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Other famous places include the Giant's Causeway in Northern...
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    Grace is a city in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 920 at the 2020 census. The area of Grace was once inhabited by the Shoshone...
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    national monument and national preserve in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho. It is along US 20 (concurrent with US 93 and US 26), between the small...
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    Idaho is a state located in the Western United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Idaho is the 13th least populous state with 1,839,106...
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    Jerome is a city in and county seat of Jerome County, Idaho, United States. The population was 10,890 at the 2010 census, up from 7,780 in 2000. The city...
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    The Chilcotin Group, also called the Chilcotin Plateau Basalts, is a large area of basaltic lava that forms a volcanic plateau running parallel with the...
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    Western United States, located along the border of eastern Oregon, western Idaho, and a small section of eastern Washington. It is part of the Hells Canyon...
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    Bingham County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,992. The county seat and largest city is Blackfoot...
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    second-largest county in Idaho by area. Nearly all of the county is high intermountain desert, with plentiful sagebrush and basalt canyons. The Owyhee Mountains...
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  • Basalt. The Squaw Creek Zeolite Occurrence, also known as the Riggins Paulingite Locality (though the exact phrasing can vary), is in central Idaho....
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  • Columbia River Basalt Group in the United States, which are coeval and lie across parts of the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho to the south.[3]...
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    coulees and cataracts eroded into Palouse loess and the typically flat-lying basalt flows that remain after cataclysmic floods within the southeastern part...
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    States. It drains a rugged portion of the Sawtooth Range in southwestern Idaho northeast of Boise, as well as part of the western Snake River Plain. The...
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    igneous provinces: the Paraná and Etendeka traps and the Columbia River Basalt Group. The latter is the most recent large igneous province, and also one...
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