Petrologic constraints on the development of a large-volume, high temperature, silicic magma system: The Twin Falls eruptive centre, central Snake River Plain

BS Ellis, T Barry, MJ Branney, JA Wolff, I Bindeman… - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
Explosive volcanism associated with the Yellowstone hotspot spanning~ 11.3 to 9Ma,
thought to have erupted from the Twin Falls eruptive centre, is recorded in the Cassia …

Rhyolitic volcanism of the central Snake River Plain: a review

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 …

'Snake River (SR)-type'volcanism at the Yellowstone hotspot track: distinctive products from unusual, high-temperature silicic super-eruptions

MJ Branney, B Bonnichsen, GDM Andrews, B Ellis… - Bulletin of …, 2008 - Springer
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 …

Complex storage of rhyolite in the central Snake River Plain

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 …

Diverse mid-Miocene silicic volcanism associated with the Yellowstone–Newberry thermal anomaly

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 …

Initial impingement of the Yellowstone plume located by widespread silicic volcanism contemporaneous with Columbia River flood basalts

MA Coble, GA Mahood - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Geology of the High Rock caldera complex, northwest Nevada, and implications for intense rhyolitic volcanism associated with flood basalt magmatism and the …

MA Coble, GA Mahood - Geosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Eruptive history of the rhyolitic Kane Springs Wash volcanic center, Nevada

SW Novak - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Rise and fall of a basalt-trachyte-rhyolite magma system at the Kane Springs Wash Caldera, Nevada

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 …

Large, persistent rhyolitic magma reservoirs above Columbia River Basalt storage sites: The Dinner Creek Tuff eruptive center, eastern Oregon

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 …