The Oregon coast is made of a mixture of volcanic and sedimentary rocks. This beach at Oceanside in Tillamook County is composed of basalt and siltstone cobbles weathered from the adjacent headlands or carried down from the interior of the Coast Ranges by streams. The sea stacks offshore are remnants of a former elevated beach terrace now being eroded away. Photograph by Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives.
The Tillamook map area crosses a broad, northeast-plunging structural arch in Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary strata that form the northern Oregon Coast Range. The core of the uplift consists of Eocene basalt and interbedded marine strata that were previously correlated with the Siletz River Volcanics of the central Oregon Coast Range. In this study, the Eocene volcanics have been divided into five units, and a distinction is made between the lower Eocene Siletz River Volcanics and the overlying Tillamook Volcanics of late middle Eocene age. Marine mudstone and sandstone are interbedded with all of the volcanic units and comprise most of the late Eocene to Miocene stratigraphic section that forms the flanks of the Coast Range uplift. Continental shelf and slope sequences predominate in the basins flanking the Coast Range uplift.
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