[Geysers] history of Yellowstone hot spot

[Wayne Simister]

Many thanks, Lisa, for the references you gave for the Yellowstone Hot Spot!

Question 1:  Are any on the Web with open access?  You mentioned some 
PDF files.  I am fascinated by the findings lying beneath Yellowstone Lake.

Question 2:  Robert Smith gave a lecture on the Yellowstone Plume this 
last summer at the Salt Lake City Public Library.  He showed a recent  
computer graphic of the plume underlying Yellowstone (made from seismic 
studies).  I was awe struck by the plumes size!  He rotated it to give 
the audience a perspective of what it looked like --- very irregular and 
extending VERY deep, like an elongated potato, down into the earth.  I 
would also LOVE to get my hands on this visual!  Is there anything on 
the Web, that you know about, showing this visual?

I do remember that if you picture a baseball and place a postage stamp 
on it, the baseball would roughly represent the size of the plume ... 
the postage stamp would represent the present boundaries of Yellowstone.

Wayne Simister
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Lisa Morgan wrote:
> Several research papers have been written on the track of the 
> Yellowstone hot spots by Ken Pierce and myself.   These include:
>
> Pierce, Kenneth L., and Morgan, Lisa A._,_ 1992, The track of the 
> Yellowstone hot spot: Volcanism, faulting, and uplift, in Link, P.K., 
> Kuntz, M.A., and Platt, L.B., eds., Regional geology of eastern Idaho 
> and western Wyoming, Geological Society of America Memoir 179, p. 1-53.
>
> Pierce, Kenneth L., Morgan, Lisa A., and Saltus, R.W., 2004, 
> Yellowstone plume head: Postulated relations to the Vancouver slab, 
> continental boundaries, and climate, /in/ Bonnichsen, B., White, C.M., 
> and McCurry, Michael, eds., Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the 
> Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin 
> 30, p. 5-33.
>
>
> Other papers of interest related to Yellowstone, the hot spot, and 
> hydrothermal activity in Yellowstone that Ken, myself, and colleagues 
> at the USGS have written are:
>
> Morgan, L.A., and McIntosh, W.C., 2005, 40Ar/39Ar Ages of Silicic 
> Volcanic Rocks in the Heise Volcanic Field, Eastern Snake River Plain, 
> Idaho: Timing of Volcanism and Tectonism, Geological Society of 
> America Bulletin, v. 117, no. 3/4, p. 288-306.
>
> Lowenstern, Jacob B., Christiansen, Robert L., Smith, Robert B., 
> Morgan, Lisa A., and Heasler, Henry, 2005, Steam Explosions, 
> Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions­What's in Yellowstone's Future?, 
> U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005-3024, 2005, 6 p.
>
> Morgan, Lisa A. and Shanks, W.C. Pat III, 2005, Influences of 
> rhyolitic lava flows on hydrothermal processes in Yellowstone Lake and 
> on the Yellowstone Plateau, /in/ William P. Inskeep and Timothy R. 
> McDermott (eds.), Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone 
> National Park, p. 31-52.
>
> Shanks, W.C. Pat, Morgan, Lisa A., Balistrieri, Laurie A., and Alt, 
> Jeffrey C., 2005, Hydrothermal vents, siliceous hydrothermal deposits, 
> and hydrothermally altered sediments in Yellowstone Lake, /in/ William 
> P. Inskeep and Timothy R. McDermott (eds.), Geothermal Biology and 
> Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park, p. 53-72.
>
> Finn, C.A. and Morgan, Lisa A., 2002, High-resolution aeromagnetic 
> survey of volcanic terrain, Yellowstone National Park: Journal of 
> Volcanology and Geothermal Research 115, p. 207-231.
>
> Morgan, Lisa A., Shanks, W.C. III, Lovalvo, David, A., Johnson, S.Y., 
> Stephenson, W.J., Pierce, K.L., Harlan, S.S., Finn, C.A., Lee, G., 
> Webring, M., Schulze, B., Dühn, J., Sweeney, R., and Balistrieri, L., 
> 2003, Exploration and Discovery in Yellowstone Lake: Results from 
> High-Resolution Sonar Imaging, Seismic Reflection Profiling, and 
> Submersible Studies in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 
> v. 122, p. 221-242.
>
>  
>  Other papers soon to be published are:
>
> Pierce, K.L. Despain, D., Morgan, Lisa A., and Good, J., 2005, Effects 
> of Hotspot-related Volcanism, Faulting, and Uplift on the Greater 
> Yellowstone Ecosystem and Human Geography, /in/ _Morgan, L.A._ (ed.), 
> Integrated Geoscience Studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area: 
> Volcanic, Tectonic, and Hydrothermal Processes in the Yellowstone 
> Geoecosystem, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1717.
>
> Morgan, Lisa A., Shanks, W.C. Lovalvo, D., Lee, G., Pierce, K.L., 
> Webring, M. Stephenson, W.J., Johnson, S.Y., Finn, C.A., Harlan, 2005, 
> The Floor of Yellowstone Lake is Anything but Quiet:  New Discoveries 
> from High-Resolution Sonar Imaging, Seismic Reflection Profiling, and 
> Submersible Studies, /in/ Morgan, Lisa A., (ed.), Integrated 
> Geoscience Studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area: Volcanic, 
> Tectonic, and Hydrothermal Processes in the Yellowstone Geoecosystem, 
> U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1717.
>
> Shanks, W. C. III, Alt, J., and Morgan, Lisa A., 2005, Geochemistry of 
> sublacustrine hydrothermal deposits in Yellowstone Lake: hydrothermal 
> reactions, stable isotope systematics, sinter deposition, and spire 
> growth, /in/ Morgan, Lisa A. (ed.), Integrated Geoscience Studies in 
> the Greater Yellowstone Area: Volcanic, Tectonic, and Hydrothermal 
> Processes in the Yellowstone Geoecosystem, U.S. Geological Survey 
> Professional Paper 1717.
>
> Saunders, A.D., Jones, S.M., Morgan, Lisa A., Pierce, K.L., Widdowson, 
> M., and Xu, Y., 2006, Regional uplift associated with continental 
> large igneous provinces: The roles of mantle plumes and the 
> lithosphere, /in /Chemical Geology
> Morgan, Lisa A., Shanks, W.C. Pat, and Pierce, Kenneth L., in press, 
> Bathymetry, Geology, and Selected Perspective Views of the Floor of 
> Yellowstone Lake, in U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations 
> Map Series (tba), 2 plates.
>
> A couple other research papers related to large hydrothermal 
> explosions and features in Yellowstone are currently in review.
>
> Reprints and pdf's are available upon request to me at lmorgan at usgs.gov
>
> Lisa Morgan
>
>
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