Jason McClaughry, RG
Eastern Oregon Regional Geologist
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries,
Baker City Field Office
1995 3rd Street, Suite 130
Baker City, OR 97814
Phone: (541) 523-3133

jmcclaughry@dogami.state.or.us


Projects

Current projects:

2011-2012 - Geologic mapping in the Hood River Valley: Dee, Parkdale, Ketchum Reservoir, Hood River, and White Salmon 7.5' quadrangles in preparation.
USGS STATEMAP Funded project

Recently completed projects:

2010-2011 - Geologic mapping in the Bear Creek Valley, Ashland and Medford
USGS STATEMAP Funded project

2007-2010 – Geologic mapping in the southern Willamette Valley Eugene to Albany USGS
STATEMAP Funded project

2005-2007 – Geologic mapping in the Lower Crooked Basin near Prineville
USGS STATEMAP Funded project

2004-2005 – Stream sediment and soil sampling: USGS National Geochemical Survey


Background Information

2011-present, Eastern Oregon Regional Geologist, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
2004-2011, Geologist, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
2000-2003, M.Sc., Department of Geology, Washington State University, Pullman
1996-2000, B.Sc., Department of Geology, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma

Certificates

• Registered Geologist, #G2087

Honors

• Norman R. Anderson Award, University of Puget Sound Outstanding Geology Major, 2000

Professional Societies:

• Geological Society of America
• Society for Sedimentary Geology
• Sigma Xi

Research Interests

• volcanic stratigraphy, processes, and geochemistry
• GIS as a tool to analyze and interpret spatial and temporal geologic relations
• timing and development of volcanic provinces in the Pacific Northwest
• sediment gravity flow initiation, transport, deposition, and deposit characterization
  
  

Publications

Articles

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2011 in review, Stratigraphy and volcanic evolution of the middle Miocene La Grande – Owyhee eruptive axis in eastern Oregon, in Reidel, S.P., Camp, V. Martin, B.E., Ross, M.E., Wells, R.E., and Wolff, J.A., eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper.

McClaughry, J.D., Ferns, M.L., Streck, M.J., Patridge, K.A., and Gordon, C.L., 2009, Paleogene calderas of central and eastern Oregon: Eruptive sources of widespread tuffs in the John Day and Clarno Formations, in O’Connor, J.E., Dorsey, R.J., and Madin, I.P., eds., Volcanoes to Vineyards: Geologic Field Trips through the Dynamic Landscape of the Pacific Northwest: Geological Society of America Field Guide 15, p. 407–434, doi: 10.1130/2009.fl d015(20).

McClaughry, J.D., Gordon, C.L., and Ferns, M.L., 2009, Field trip guide to the middle Eocene Wildcat Mountain caldera, Ochoco National Forest, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Geology v. 69, no. 1, p. 5-24.

McClaughry, J.D., Ferns, M.L., Gordon, C.L., and Patridge, K.A., 2009, Field trip guide to the Oligocene Crooked River caldera: Central Oregon’s supervolcano, Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson Counties, Oregon: Oregon Geology v. 69, no. 1, p. 25-44.

McClaughry, J.D., Ferns, M.L., and Gordon, C.L., 2009, Field trip guide to the Neogene stratigraphy of the Lower Crooked Basin and the ancestral Crooked River, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Geology v. 69, no. 1, p. 45-60.

McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2006, Field trip guide to the geology of the Lower Crooked River Basin, Redmond and Prineville Areas, Oregon: Oregon Geology v. 67, no. 1, p. 15-23.

McClaughry, J.D., and Gaylord, D.R., 2005, Middle Eocene sedimentary and volcanic infilling of an evolving supradetachment basin:  White Lake Basin, southern British  Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 42, p. 49–66.

Geologic Maps

McClaughry, J.D., Ferns, M.L., Gordon, C.L., and Patridge, K.A., in preparation, Digital Geologic Map of the north half of the Lower Crooked Basin, Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, and Wheeler Counties, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open-File Report O-XX-XX, XXX p., scale 1:63,360.

Wiley, T.J., McClaughry, J.D., and Madin, I.P., 2011, Geologic database and generalized geologic map of Bear Creek Valley, Jackson County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open-File Report O-11-11, 75 p., scale 1:63,360.

McClaughry, J.D., Wiley, T.J., Ferns, M.L., and Madin, I.P., 2010, Digital Geologic Map of the Southern Willamette Valley, Benton, Lane, Linn, Marion, and Polk Counties, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open-File Report O-10-03, 121 p., scale 1:63,360.

McClaughry, J.D., 2009, Preliminary geologic map of the Sweet Home 7.5’ quadrangle, Linn County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open File report OFR O-09-11, scale 1:24, 000

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2009, Preliminary geologic map of the Brownsville 7.5’ quadrangle, Linn County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open File report OFR O-09-04, scale 1:24, 000

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2009, Preliminary geologic map of the Waterloo 7.5’ quadrangle, Linn County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open File report OFR O-09-10, scale 1:24, 000

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2008, Preliminary geologic map of the Lebanon and One Horse Slough 7.5’ quadrangles, Linn County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open File report OFR O-08-11, scale 1:24,000.

McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2007, Preliminary geologic map of the Eagle Rock 7.5’ quadrangle, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open File report OFR O-07-10, scale 1:24, 000.

McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2007, Preliminary geologic map of the Stearns Butte 7.5’ quadrangle, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open File report OFR O-07-12, scale 1:24,000./p>

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2007, Preliminary geologic map of the Hensley Butte and Salt Butte 7.5’ quadrangles, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open File report OFR O-07-11, scale 1:24,000.

McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2006, Preliminary geologic map of the Prineville 7.5’ quadrangle, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open File report OFR O-06-22, scale 1:24,000.

McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2006, Preliminary geologic map of the Ochoco Reservoir 7.5’ quadrangle, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open File report OFR O-06-23, scale 1:24,000.

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2006, Preliminary geologic map of the Huston Lake 7.5’ quadrangle, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open File report OFR O-06-21, scale 1:24,000.

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2006, Preliminary geologic map of the Powell Buttes 7.5’ quadrangle, Crook County, Oregon: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open File report OFR O-06-24, scale 1:24,000.

Meeting Abstracts

Cahoon, E., Gaylord, D.R., Felt, K.J., Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2011, Volcanism and sedimentation in Paleogene-Neogene deposits in the Greenhorn 7.5’ quadrangle, OR: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. XX, no. X.

Felt, K.J., Gaylord, D.R., McClaughry, J.D., and Cahoon, E., 2011, Trends in gravel clast lithology as a correlation tool for Eocene to Oligocene volcanogenic sedimentary and volcanic strata in NE Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. XX, no. X.

Patridge, K.A., Wolff, J.A., and McClaughry, J.D., 2010, Petrology and Tectonic Setting of A-type John Day Rhyolites, Central Oregon: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting Abstract V11B-2267.

Lambert, D.P., Gaylord, D.R., Spall, B.N., Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2010, Cenozoic evolution of the Whitney Basin, NE Oregon, inferred from metamorphic Baker Terrane- and Clarno and John Day Formation-derived gravel deposits: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Paper 174-5.

Spall, B.N., Gaylord, D.R., Lambert, D.P., McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2010, Oligocene-Miocene sedimentation and volcano-tectonic evolution of the Whitney Basin, NE Oregon,  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Paper 174-5.

Streck, M.J., Ferns, M.L., Ricker, C., and McClaughry, J.D., 2009, Forty Million Years of Rhyolite Volcanism in Eastern Oregon: Implications for Rhyolite Petrogenesis Beyond Oregon: Geological Society of America Penrose Conference, Low δ18O rhyolites and crustal melting: Growth and redistribution of the continental crust, Twin Falls, Idaho.

McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2009, Eocene and Oligocene rhyolite calderas in the John Day and Clarno Formations of central and eastern Oregon, USA: A northward extension of the “ignimbrite flare up” in the Great Basin?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Patridge, K.A., Wolff, J.A., and McClaughry, J.D., 2009, Zircon saturation in Fe-rich A-type Rhyolites of the John Day Formation: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., Roddey, J.D., and Schueller, D.A., 2009, From the Outcrop to the Capitol Windows, Using New Geologic Discoveries as Outreach Tools: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Niewendorp, C.A., Ferns, M.L., McClaughry, J.D., Brooks, D.E., and Mabey, M.A., 2009, Naturally Occurring Hazardous Materials in Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Ferns, M.L., and McClaughry, J.D., 2009, An Overview of Paleogene silicic volcanism in Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Spall, B.N., Gaylord, D.R., Lambert, D.P., McClaughry, J.D., and Ferns, M.L., 2009, Eocene to Oligocene volcanogenic sedimentary and volcanic rocks exposed in the Whitney 7.5’ Quadrangle, Oregon: implications for volcano-tectonic evolution: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Lambert, D.P., Gaylord, D.R., McClaughry, J.D., Spall, B.N., and Ferns, M.L., 2009, Sedimentology of Quaternary gravel deposits, Whitney 7.5’ Quadrangle, NE Oregon: implications for exhumation of Tertiary Clarno and John Day volcanic and pre-Tertiary Blue Mountains Terrane rocks: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 41, no. 7.

Patridge, K.A., Wolff, J.A., and McClaughry, J.D., 2008, Petrogenesis of age-equivalent ash-flows near Prineville, Oregon, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, abstract, #T23B-2031.

McClaughry, J. D., and Ferns, M.L., 2007, The Crooked River Caldera: Identification of an early Oligocene eruptive center in the John Day Formation of central Oregon:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 4, p. 10.

McClaughry, J. D., and Ferns, M.L., 2007, Neogene Basalt Flow Stratigraphy near Prineville, Oregon: Interaction with the Ancestral Crooked River: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 4, p. 72.

McClaughry, J.D., and Gaylord, D.R., 2002, Middle Eocene sedimentary and volcanic infilling of an evolving supradetachment basin:  White Lake Basin, southern British Columbia:  AAPG Abstracts with Programs, v. 12, p. A115, SEPM Student Award Session.

McClaughry, J.D., and Gaylord, D.R., 2001, Middle Eocene sedimentation and volcanism in the extensional White Lake Basin, British Columbia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, 6.

McClaughry, J.D., and Brunstad, K.A., 2000, Reinterpretation of the Ohanapecosh Formation at Burnt Mountain, S. Washington Cascades. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, 32, 6.

Theses

McClaughry, J.D., 2003, Middle Eocene sedimentary and volcanic infilling of an evolving supradetachment basin: White Lake Basin, southern British Columbia [MS thesis]: Pullman, Washington State University, 143 p.

McClaughry, J.D., 2000, Reinterpretation of the Ohanapecosh Formation at Burnt Mountain, S. Washington Cascades [BS thesis]: Tacoma, University of Puget Sound, 93 p.

Student Mentoring Projects

2011 – EDMAP, Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant Funded projects

• Cahoon, E., Volcanism and sedimentation in Paleogene-Neogene deposits in the Greenhorn 7.5' quadrangle, OR [MS candidate].
• Felt, K.J., Trends in gravel clast lithology as a correlation tool for Eocene to Oligocene volcanogenic sedimentary and volcanic strata in NE Oregon [MS candidate].

2008-present

• Lambert, D.P., in preparation, Cenozoic evolution of the Whitney Basin, NE Oregon, inferred from metamorphic Baker Terrane- and Clarno and John Day Formation-derived gravel deposits [MS candidate]. Pullman, Washington State University.
• Spall, B.N., in preparation, Oligocene-Miocene sedimentation and volcano-tectonic evolution of the Whitney Basin, NE Oregon [MS candidate]. Pullman, Washington State University.

2007-2010

• Patridge, K.A., 2010, Geochemistry and petrogenesis of John Day ash flows near Prineville Oregon [MS thesis]. Pullman, Washington State University, 149 p.

2007-2010 EDMAP Funded project

• Dooley, M.M., 2010, Geologic mapping and petrochemical stratigraphy of the southern Warner Valley, southern Oregon, USA [MS thesis]. San Diego, San Diego State University, 110 p.

Web Links

• National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
• Statemap information sheet for Oregon