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Layers of volcanic rock in Eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Basin have created fertile soil for farming ...

Layers of volcanic rock in eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Basin have created ... Ruarri Day-Stirrat, state geologist and executive director of the Oregon Department of Geology ...

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