BS Ellis, JA Wolff, S Boroughs, DF Mark… - Bulletin of …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The central Snake River Plain (CSRP) of southern Idaho and northern Nevada, USA, forms part of the Columbia River–Yellowstone large igneous province. Volcanic rocks …
A new category of large-scale volcanism, here termed Snake River (SR)-type volcanism, is defined with reference to a distinctive volcanic facies association displayed by Miocene …
BS Ellis, JA Wolff - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2012 - Elsevier
Analysis of hundreds of co-existing individual clinopyroxene crystals and crystal aggregates from rhyolitic ignimbrites of the central Snake River Plain has revealed that magma storage …
ME Brueseke, WK Hart, MT Heizler - Bulletin of Volcanology, 2008 - Springer
Abstract The Santa Rosa–Calico volcanic field (SC) of northern Nevada is a complex, multi- vent mid-Miocene eruptive complex that formed in response to regional lithospheric …
During the main phase of Steens and Columbia River (United States) flood basalt eruptions between 16.7 and 15.0 Ma,∼ 3900 km3 of silicic magma erupted from centers dispersed …
We present the geologic history of the High Rock caldera complex (HRCC; Nevada, USA), a major mid-Miocene silicic center associated with flood basalt volcanism. Based on 70 …
The 19× 13 km Kane Springs Wash caldera formed 14 Ma ago following eruption of the three youngest members of the Kane Wash Tuff. Two older cooling units of the Kane Wash …
SW Novak, GA Mahood - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1986 - Springer
Magmas erupted at the Kane Springs Wash volcanic center record the buildup and decay of a silicic magma chamber within the upper crust between 14.1 and 13.2 Ma ago. Intrusion of …
MJ Streck, ML Ferns, W McIntosh - Geosphere, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Our understanding of the Yellowstone hotspot and its connection to flood basalts of the Columbia River Basalt province (western and northwestern USA) has grown tremendously …