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GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RITZ QUADRANGLE, BOUNDARY COUNTY, IDAHO Made Alluvial and Colluvium and Deposits Lacustrine Deposits Mass Wasting Deposits Glacial and Related Deposits Disclaimer: This Digital Web Map is an informal report and may be m revised and formally published at a later time. Its content and format Qal Qaf Qlm Qc Qglc Holocene may not conform to agency standards. Quaternary Roy M. Breckenridge, Russell F. Burmester, and Reed S. Lewis Qgl Qgo Qgt Qgk Qgls Pleistocene 2010 Intrusive Rocks

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Kgc 75 Qgk INTRODUCTION Kgc Granodiorite of Copeland (Cretaceous)—Porphyritic, medium- to coarse- Qgt grained hornblende-biotite and biotite granodiorite that underlies eastern Qlm half of quadrangle. Microcline phenocrysts are as long as 4 cm. Plagioclase

Quaternary deposits on the Ritz 1:24,000-scale quadrangle were mapped has strong oscillatory zonation and average composition of an28. Quartz Qlm in 1997-8 and 2009 by R.M. Breckenridge. Bedrock was mapped in 2009 typically in aggregates 4-8 mm across. Myrmekitic intergrowth of quartz by R.F. Burmester and R.S. Lewis to augment mapping by R.F. Burmester and feldspar common. Color index 13-17; biotite is more than twice as Qlm (1982, 1985-86) and F.K. Miller (1994). Plutonic rock descriptions are abundant as hornblende in most of pluton; hornblende sparse or lacking at modified from Miller and Burmester (2004). Cretaceous granodiorite northern edge of map. Accessories include abundant epidote and sphene Qgl 60 probably underlies most of the Quaternary deposits in the quadrangle. and subordinate zircon, apatite, opaque minerals, and allanite. Hornblende Qgt Kgc Qlm Biotite grade Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Prichard Forma- and biotite give potassium-argon ages of 95 Ma and 90 Ma respectively Kgc m tion, Belt-Purcell Supergroup, and more resistant mafic sills within the (Miller and Engels, 1975), recalculated using current IUGS constants Prichard crop out in the southeastern corner of the map. (Steiger and Jaeger, 1977). These are considered cooling ages, not emplace- 70 ment ages. Qal The Ritz quadrangle is located in the Purcell Trench, a major structural and Qlm physiographic feature that trends north-south more than 80 miles within the Ymi Mafic sills (Mesoproterozoic)—Coarse gabbro, fine diabase, and granophyric Qal Qlm Idaho Panhandle and northward into Canada (Fig. 1). This part of the trench quartz diorite. All are probably Moyie sills of tholeiitic composition intrud- Qal 55 Qglc Kgc 85 75 ing Prichard Formation. Composed of hornblende, biotite, plagioclase, Qaf is drained by the Kootenai River, which flows west from Montana to Kgc quartz, and opaque minerals (Bishop, 1973, 1976). Discontinuously and Qlm Bonners Ferry and then northward into British Columbia. During Pleisto- Qgl cene glaciations a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet repeatedly advanced incompletely exposed in map area, but elsewhere thicker sills are texturally 45 southward along the Purcell Trench from Canada. Tributary valley glaciers and compositionally zoned; fine-grained diabasic borders, irregularly Qlm Qgk Qlm from the Selkirk Range to the west and Cabinet Range to the east contrib- grading into coarse gabbro and quartz dioritic granophyre, which is uted to the ice stream. The ice dammed the Kootenai River, formed Glacial concentrated in upper parts. Elsewhere, contacts are normally sharp, Kgc Lake Kootenai, and diverted the outlet southward down the trench into the although some sills low in the Prichard disrupt sedimentary rocks in a Pend Oreille and Spokane River drainages. Thick sections of glacial till, manner consistent with intrusion into non-lithified sediment that probably Qlm outwash, and lacustrine deposits filled the depression of the Purcell Trench. contained interstitial water (Cressman, 1989). Zircons from sill east of Qal After retreat of the continental ice, the northward drainage of the Kootenai Bonners Ferry (Crossport-C sill of Bishop, 1973) gave a discordant Kgc River was restored. The presence of Glacier Peak tephra (11,200 B.P.) gives uranium-lead age of 1,433 Ma (Zartman and others, 1982), which may be low because of lead loss (Anderson and Davis, 1995). More likely the age m Qlm a minimum date for retreat of the ice lobe from the trench (Richmond, 1986). Alpine valley glaciers persisted until nearly 10,000 years ago in the of synsedimentary sills is 1468 Ma as determined for sills at the same Qal Qglc higher cirques of the Selkirk and Cabinet Ranges. Holocene alluvium, stratigraphic level to the north (Anderson and Davis, 1995) and to the colluvium, and lacustrine sediments are mostly the product of reworked southeast (Sears and others, 1998). Qlm 80 glacial deposits.

Qglc Qlm BELT-PURCELL SUPERGROUP Qgl Ymi DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS Kgc Ypab Prichard Formation, members a and b (Mesoproterozoic)—Rusty weathering, dark gray siltite and argillite couplets, siltite, and rare lighter quartzite. 75 Qgt Kgc Exposed in a small area near the southeast corner of the map where siltite Intrusive rocks are classified according to IUGS nomenclature using 75 (dm thick) and argillite (mm thick) couples alternate with mm thick siltite normalized values of modal quartz (Q), alkali feldspar (A) and plagioclase and argillite couplets. Paucity of quartzite, common association with mafic Kgc (P) on a ternary diagram (Streckeisen, 1976). Mineral modifiers are listed in Qlm sills and regional mapping by Cominco (Michael Zientek, written commu- order of increasing abundance for igneous rocks. Grain size classification Ymi nication, 2003) supports assignment to the lower Prichard. See Lewis and of unconsolidated and consolidated sediment is based on the Wentworth others (2006) for description of individual units in the Trout Peak quad- scale (Lane, 1947). Bedding thicknesses and lamination type are after Qal rangle to the southeast. Qgo McKee and Weir (1963), and Winston (1986). Thicknesses and distances Qgl are given in abbreviation of metric units (e.g., dm=decimeter). Unit Ypm Prichard Formation, massive unit (Mesoproterozoic)—Structureless, poorly m thickness and elevation are listed in both meters and feet. Multiple litholo- sorted quartzite and siltite to quartz-rich fine-grained biotite granodiorite. 40 Kgc Qglc Qgt gies within a rock unit description are listed in order of decreasing abun- Commonly has granofels texture with fine biotite and muscovite common. dance. Soil descriptions for Quaternary units are after Chugg and Fosberg Here apparently floored by a mafic sill with differentiated top, but also Kco? Qgl (1980) and Weisel (2005). possibly capped by another, and probably is laterally discontinuous. East of 70 Templeman Creek contains 5 percent clasts of laminated siltite and agillite Qgk Kgc a few cm thick, 3-10 cm long commonly with lighter colored rims. Qgl Ypab A Qgl MAN-MADE DEPOSITS m 70 m Made land (historical)—Highway fills, railroad rights of way, and levees of the SYMBOLS Qal Qglc Kootenai River alluvial flood plain. Ymi Contact: dashed where approximately located.

Qal ALLUVIAL AND LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS Fault: dashed where approximately located; dotted where concealed. Qglc Kgc Qal Alluvium (Holocene)—Alluvial deposits of the Kootenai River and tributary Moraine crest or kame ridge. Qgt streams. Mostly finer grained in the Kootenai River alluvial plain and Qlm coarser grained in tributary drainages. Moderately sorted to well sorted silt, Area of subglacial tunnel erosion and scattered kame deposits. Kgbf sand, and local pebble and cobble gravels. Mostly reworked glacial depos- Qgl 65 its in the river valley and post glacial colluvium in the surrounding moun- Kettle. Qgl tains. Schnoorson-Ritz-Farnhampton soils association; typical soils are very deep silty clay loams, silt loams, and mucky silt loams in basins and swales Terrace escarpment . and on low terraces, flood plains, and natural levees. Thickness is several Qgo Kgbf 80 to more than 10 m (6 to >30 feet). 60 Strike and dip of jointing. 60 Ymi Qaf Kgc 65 Alluvial fan deposits (Holocene)—Mixed pebble to cobble gravel deposited as 20 Strike and dip of bedding. Qgls fans at the mouths of local drainages. Mostly subangular to angular clasts 85 Ypm A’ derived locally from colluvium and glacial deposits on steep slopes. Estimated strike and dip of bedding. Qglc Qgk Qgt Qgt 24 85 Qlm Lacustrine and mud deposits (Holocene)—Organic muck, mud, and peat bogs Strike and dip of foliation. in poorly drained paleoglacial outwash channels and kettle depressions. Strike of vertical foliation. Ypab Interbedded with thin layers of fine sand, silt, and clay. Soils of the Pywell Kgc 80 Ypab series. Thickness from 1 m to 5 m (3-16 feet). Estimated strike and dip of foliation. 20 Qgls 55 Ymi REFERENCES Kgbf Qal 80 COLLUVIAL AND MASS WASTING DEPOSITS Qc Colluvial deposits (Holocene)—Silt, sand, and gravel colluvium. Forms debris fans and colluvial aprons along steeper escarpments and gullies of terraces Anderson, H.E., and D.W. Davis, 1995, U-Pb geochronology of the Moyie sills, Qgl 80 Ymi Qglc and benches. Includes small unmappable mass movements. This unit southeastern British Columbia: implications for the Mesoproterozoic Qglc Qlm Qlm mostly in escarpments of Qglc where mappable. Varied thickness up to history of the Purcell (Belt) basin: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 32, several meters (15 feet). p. 1180-1193. Bishop, D.T., 1973, Petrology and geochemistry of the Purcell Sills, Bound- Kgbf Kgc 65 Ymi Qglc Glaciolacustrine deposits (Pleistocene to Holocene)—Mixed deposits of silt, Qgl 85 ary County Idaho, and adjacent areas, in Belt Symposium v. 1: Depart- sand, and gravel colluvium, slope wash, and small landslides. Steep slopes ment of Geology, University of Idaho and Idaho Bureau of Mines and Qgls Qglc Ypab of reworked and locally transported Qgl. Soils are silt loams of the Geology, p. 204-205. Wishbone-Crash association. Thickness up to 10 m (30 feet). Bishop, D.T., 1976, The petrology and geochemistry of the Purcell Sills, Boundary County Idaho and adjacent areas: University of Idaho Ph.D. Qgt Ymi thesis, 147 p. GLACIAL AND FLOOD-RELATED DEPOSITS Breckenridge, R.M., R.F. Burmester, M.D. McFaddan, and R.S. Lewis, 2009, Geologic map of the Bonners Ferry quadrangle, Boundary County, Idaho: Qgt Qgl Glaciolacustrine deposits (Pleistocene to Holocene)—Massive to well bedded Qgl Qgls Idaho Geological Survey Digital Web Map 108, scale 1:24,000. and finely laminated clay, silt, and sand deposited in Glacial Lake Kootenai Chugg, J.C., and M.A. Fosberg, 1980, Soil Survey of Boundary County Idaho: Qglc at the northward retreating ice margin in the Purcell Trench. Exhibit well Qglc United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service and m developed rhythmites and beds of sand and silt and scattered dropstones. United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs in coop- Qgls Ymi Contorted bedding and loading structures are common. This unit forms eration with University of Idaho College of Agriculture Idaho Agricultural Qaf Ymi several prominent terrace levels from an elevation about 2200’ to 2300’ Qal Ypab Experiment Station, 75 p. 50 including North Bench and Deer Park and also discontinuous terraces in Ymi Cressman, E.R., 1989, Reconnaissance stratigraphy of the Prichard Formation tributary valleys. Mostly well sorted and finely laminated. Overlain by Qlm (Middle Proterozoic) and the early development of the Belt basin, glaciofluvial outwash deposits on terraces and in tributary valleys. Soils are Washington, Idaho, and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional silt loam and silty sandy loams of the Wishbone-Crash association. Exposed 60 Paper 1490, 80 p. Ymi thickness as much as 100 m (300 feet). Qal Lane, E.W., 1947, Report of the subcommittee on sediment terminology: Trans- Qgl Ypab Qgk Qgls actions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 28, no. 6, p. 936-938. Qglc Glaciolacustrine and ice stagnation deposits (Pleistocene)—Fine silt and sand with interbedded bar and channel sand and gravel deposits. Thin laminae Lewis, R.S., R.M. Breckenridge, M.D. McFaddan, and R.F. Burmester, 2006, to thickly bedded sands with some cross bedding. Rolling topography; Geologic map of the Trout Peak quadrangle, Bonner County, Idaho: Idaho Geologic Survey Digital Web Map 58, Scale: 1:24,000. Qglc Qlm some dunes and kettles are the dominant surface features and record a 15 recessional ice margin. Soils are very deep fine sandy loams and loamy McKee, E.D., and G.W. Weir, 1963, Terminology for stratification and cross- Qgls m Ymi sands of the Selle-Elmira association. Thickness several to tens of meters (6 stratification in sedimentary rocks: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Ymi v. 64, p. 381-390. Ymi to 60 feet). Qglc Miller, F.K., and R.F. Burmester, 2004, Geologic map of the Bonners Ferry 30’ Qgo Outwash deposits, undivided (Pleistocene)—Silty and sandy gravels. Moder- x 60’ quadrangle, Idaho and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Miscella- ately sorted and rounded pebbles and cobbles. The presence of Glacier neous Field Studies Map MF-2426, scale 1:100,000. Qgls Ymi Peak Tephra (11,200 B.P.) gives a minimum date for retreat of the ice lobe Miller, F.K., and J.C. Engels, 1975, Distribution and trends of discordant ages of from the trench (Richmond, 1986). Soils are sandy loams and loamy sands the plutonic rocks of northeastern Washington and northern Idaho: Qlm of the Selle-Elmira Association. Thickness as much as 20 m (60 feet). Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 86, p. 517-528. Ymi Richmond, G.M., 1986, Tentative correlation of deposits of the Cordilleran Qgt Till deposits (Pleistocene)—Dense silt pebble and cobble till with local ice-sheet in the northern Rocky Mountains, in V. Sibrava, D.Q. Bowen, and boulders deposited by the Purcell Trench lobe of the Cordilleran Ice sheet. G.M. Richmond, eds., Quaternary Glaciations in the northern hemisphere: Ymi Poorly stratified compact basal till includes ground moraine and some Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 5, p. 129-144. interbedded proglacial deposits. Deposit includes kame terraces and some Sears, J.W., K.R. Chamberlain, and S.N. Buckley, 1998, Structural and U-Pb outwash along the south margin. Soils include silt loams and gravelly silt geochronological evidence for 1.47 Ga rifting in the Belt basin, western loams of the Pend Oreille-rock outcrop and the Stien-Pend Oreille associa- Montana: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 35, p. 467-475. Qlm Qc Qgt tions. Thickness varies; may exceed 50 m (100’s of feet) in subsurface. Steiger, R.H., and E. Jaeger, 1977, Subcommission on geochronology–Convention Qgk Kame deposits (Pleistocene)—Poorly stratified and compact silty to sandy on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 36, no. 3, p. 359-362. Qglc Qglc boulder lodgement till; locally includes ground moraine and some interbedded proglacial and ice contact and outwash deposits. Includes Streckeisen, A.L., 1976, To each plutonic rock its proper name: Earth-Science Qgo multiple kame terraces along the east side of the Purcell Trench. This unit Reviews, v. 12, p. 1-33. Qgk Weisel, C.J., 2005, Soil Survey of Boundary County Idaho: United States Qgl probably underlies Qgl and records the latest retreat of the Purcell Trench ice lobe. Soils include silt loams and gravelly silt loams of the Stien-Pend Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Soil Conservation Service in Qgl Ymi Qc Oreille association. Thickness varies; may exceed 50 m (160 feet). cooperation with and United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, University of Idaho College of Agriculture; and Idaho m Qglc Soil Conservation Commission, Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Part Qal Qgl INTRUSIVE ROCKS I, 144 p., Part II, 452 p. Qglc Winston, Don, 1986, Sedimentology of the Ravalli Group, middle Belt carbon- Qgl Kgbf ate, and Missoula Group, Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana, Qglc Qgl Qc Granodiorite of Bonners Ferry (Cretaceous)—Coarse-grained biotite grano- Qgt diorite and monzogranite. Equigranular, with quartz and feldspar grains Idaho and Washington, in S.M. Roberts, ed., Belt Supergroup: A Guide to Qgl typically 5-10 mm; biotite smaller, generally in ragged books. Color index Proterozoic Rocks of Western Montana and Adjacent Areas: Montana about 5. Locally iron-stained and altered. Sparse, but wide-spread Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 94, p. 85-124. Base digitally scanned from 24,0000-scale USGS film Field work conducted 2009. exposures suggest pluton underlies southwest part of quadrangle. Larger Zartman, R.E., Z.E. Peterman, J.D. Obradovich, M.D. Gallego, and D.T. separates, 1996. This geologic map was funded in part by the U.S. masses are exposed to the south near Bonners Ferry (Breckenridge and Bishop, 1982, Age of the Crossport C sill near Eastport, Idaho, in R.R. Reid, HALL

MN COPELAND EASTPORT Geological Survey National Cooperative Geologic Shaded elevation from 10 m DEM. SCALE 1:24,000 MOUNTAIN others, 2009); those in the Ritz quadrangle are thought to be part of the and others, eds., Society of Economic Geologists, Coeur d'Alene Field Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial 1 0.5 0 1 Mapping Program, USGS Award No. G09AC00163. same mass, but could be a separate pluton. Conference: Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 24, p. 61-69. photographs taken 1963. Planimetry derived from imagery GN MILE Digital cartography by Collette Gatenbein and 0o 31 18.5o FEET taken 1992. Public Land Survey System and survey control RITZ Jane S. Freed at the Idaho Geological Survey’s MEADOW current as of 1996. 1000 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 FARNHAMPEAK CREEK Digital Mapping Lab. Projection and 10,000-foot grid ticks: Idaho coordinate KILOMETER Map version 10-7-2010. system, west zone (Transverse Mercator). 1927 North 1 0.5 0 1 UTM Grid and PDF (Acrobat Reader) map may be viewed online at American Datum. IDAHO MOYIE 1996 Magnetic North Contour interval 20 feet MORAVIA BONNERSFERRY SPRINGS www.idahogeology.org. 49°45' 1000-meter Universal Transverse Mercator grid ticks, zone 11. Declination at Center of Map Supplementary contour interval 10 feet

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