'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 …

Ignimbrites of the eastern Snake River Plain: Evidence for major caldera‐forming eruptions

LA Morgan, DJ Doherty… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
The eastern Snake River Plain is a predominantly rhyolitic province, analogous to the
present‐day Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field but older and further evolved. The …

Timing and development of the Heise volcanic field, Snake River Plain, Idaho, western USA

LA Morgan, WC McIntosh - Geological Society of …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Snake River Plain (SRP) developed over the last 16 Ma as a bimodal volcanic
province in response to the southwest movement of the North American plate over a fixed …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fallout tuffs of Trapper Creek, Idaho—A record of Miocene explosive volcanism in the Snake River Plain volcanic province

ME Perkins, WP Nash, FH Brown… - Geological Society of …, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A 900-m-thick section of tuffaceous sedimentary rock, vitric fallout tuff, and ash-flow tuff is
well exposed along Trapper Creek in south-central Idaho. This section provides nearly …

Miocene silicic volcanism in southwestern Idaho: geochronology, geochemistry, and evolution of the central Snake River Plain

B Bonnichsen, WP Leeman, N Honjo… - Bulletin of …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract New 40 Ar-39 Ar geochronology, bulk rock geochemical data, and physical
characteristics for representative stratigraphic sections of rhyolite ignimbrites and lavas from …

Rhyolitic ignimbrites in the Rogerson Graben, southern Snake River Plain volcanic province: volcanic stratigraphy, eruption history and basin evolution

GDM Andrews, MJ Branney, B Bonnichsen… - Bulletin of …, 2008 - Springer
The 80 km long NNE-trending Rogerson Graben on the southern margin of the central
Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA, hosts a rhyolitic pyroclastic succession, 200 m thick, that …

Explosive silicic volcanism of the Yellowstone hotspot: The ash fall tuff record

ME Perkins, BP Nash - Geological Society of America …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Unaltered silicic ash fall tuffs are abundant in Neogene sedimentary basins of the western
US and constitute an important record of explosive silicic volcanism in this region. In …