Frenchman Hills

The Frenchman Hills are hills in Grant County, Washington, United States of America. The high point is 1,640 feet (500 m).[1] They are an anticlinal fold in the northeastern part of the larger Yakima Fold Belt.[2]

Frenchman Gap

Frenchman Gap (47.0°N 120.0°W / 47.0; -120.0 (Frenchman Gap)) near Vantage, Washington is a water gap where the Columbia River carved a path through the Frenchman Hills.[3]

References
  1. "Frenchman Hills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Lidke, D.J., compiler (2003), "Fault number 561c, Frenchman Hills structures, Folds and other faults of the Frenchman Hills uplift", Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey website, United States Geological Survey, retrieved 2014-08-20
  3. Stelling, Pete; Tucker, David S. (2007), Floods, Faults, and Fire: Geological Field Trips in Washington State and Southwest British Columbia, Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-8137-0009-0
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