[Geysers] FW: new Yellowstone-related papers: Large hydrothermal explosions and JVGR volume on the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot

[Lynn Stephens]

Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:41:22 -0700
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From: lmorgan at usgs.gov
Subject: Fwd: new Yellowstone-related papers: Large hydrothermal explosions and JVGR volume on the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot


Dear Colleagues,
Several new publications on Yellowstone are now available to the public:

I.  Hydrothermal Processes above a Large Magma Chamber:  Large Hydrothermal Systems and Hydrothermal Explosions in Yellowstone National Park, Geological Society of America Special Paper 459, 95 pgs. by Lisa A. Morgan, W.C. Pat Shanks, and Kenneth L. Pierce  This now available on line at the GSA web site http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=9&pID=SPE459 and will be available for purchase at the upcoming American Geophysical Meeting in San Francisco at the GSA exhibit.



II. The Track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on the Origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, a 21-chapter special volume of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 188, issues 1-3, 304 pg. (Morgan, Lisa A., Cathey, Hennrietta E., and Pierce, Kenneth L. (editors), 2009  
 

 

 

New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect

 

 

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 

Volume 188, Issues 1-3,  Pages 1-304 (20 November 2009)

The Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot - What do Neotectonics, Climate Indicators, Volcanism, and Petrogenesis Reveal about Subsurface Processes? 
Edited by Lisa A. Morgan, Henrietta Cathey and Kenneth L. Pierce

1. The Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on the Origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain Volcanic Province 
Pages v-vi 
Lisa A. Morgan, Henrietta E. Cathey, Kenneth L. Pierce

 
  Overview
2. Is the track of the Yellowstone hotspot driven by a deep mantle plume? ­ Review of volcanism, faulting, and uplift in light of new data 
Pages 1-25 
Kenneth L. Pierce, Lisa A. Morgan

3. Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow 
Pages 26-56 
Robert B. Smith, Michael Jordan, Bernhard Steinberger, Christine M. Puskas, Jamie Farrell, Gregory P. Waite, Stephan Husen, Wu-Lung Chang, Richard O'Connell

4. Thermal structure beneath the Snake River Plain: Implications for the Yellowstone hotspot 
Pages 57-67 
William P. Leeman, Derek L. Schutt, Scott S. Hughes

5. The influence of plume head lithosphere interaction on magmatism asssociated with the Yellowstone hotspot track 
Pages 68-85 
V.C. Manea, M. Manea, W.P. Leeman, D.L. Schutt

6. Mass transfer along the Yellowstone hotspot track I: Petrologic constraints on the volume of mantle-derived magma 
Pages 86-98 
Michael McCurry, David W. Rodgers

7. Mass transfer along the Yellowstone hotspot track II: Kinematic constraints on the volume of mantle-derived magma 
Pages 99-107 
David W. Rodgers, Michael McCurry

8. Density and lithospheric strength models of the Yellowstone Snake Riverr Plain volcanic system from gravity and heat flow data 
Pages 108-127 
Katrina R. DeNosaquo, Robert B. Smith, Anthony R. Lowry

  Basalts
9.  Mantle source provinces beneath the Northwestern USA delimited by helium isotopes in young basalts 
Pages 128-140 
D.W. Graham, M.R. Reid, B.T. Jordan, A.L. Grunder, W.P. Leeman, J.E. Lupton

10.  High-K alkali basalts of the Western Snake River Plain (Idaho): Abrupt transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkaline plume-derived basalts 
Pages 141-152 
John W. Shervais, Scott K. Vetter

11.  Mixing primitive and evolved olivine tholeiite magmas in the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho 
Pages 153-161 
Myles L. Miller, Scott S. Hughes

  Rhyolites
12. Boron isotopic variations in NW USA rhyolites: Yellowstone, Snake River Plain, Eastern Oregon 
Pages 162-172 
Ivan P. Savov, William P. Leeman, Cin-Ty A. Lee, Steven B. Shirey

13.  Pyroxene thermometry of rhyolite lavas of the Bruneau Jarbidge eruptive center, Central Snake River Plain 
Pages 173-185 
Henrietta E. Cathey, Barbara P. Nash

14. Thermochemical evolution of young rhyolites at Yellowstone: Evidence for a cooling but periodically replenished postcaldera magma reservoir 
Pages 186-196 
Jorge A. Vazquez, Stephanie F. Kyriazis, Mary R. Reid, Robin C. Sehler, Frank C. Ramos

15. Intermediate composition magma production in an intracontinental setting: Unusual andesites and dacites of the mid-Miocene Santa Rosa Calico volccanic field, Northern Nevada 
Pages 197-213 
Matthew E. Brueseke, William K. Hart

 Hydrothermal alteration and epithermal mineralization

 16.  Early Yellowstone hotspot magmatism and gold metallogeny 
Pages 214-224 
Willis Hames, Derick Unger, James Saunders, George Kamenov

 17. A preliminary study of older hot spring alteration in Sevenmile Hole, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming 
Pages 225-236 
Peter B. Larson, Allison Phillips, David John, Michael Cosca, Chad Pritchard, Allen Andersen, Jennifer Manion

Sediment and structural Indicators
18. The Pliocene Lost River found to west: Detrital zircon evidence of drainage disruption along a subsiding hotspot track 
Pages 237-249 
Mary K.V. Hodges, Paul Karl Link, C. Mark Fanning

19. Stratigraphic record of the Yellowstone hotspot track, Neogene Sixmile Creek Formation grabens, southwest Montana 
Pages 250-259 
James W. Sears, Marc S. Hendrix, Robert C. Thomas, William J. Fritz

Geophysical data and Recent ongoing activity
20.  Earthquake swarm and b -value characterization of the Yellowstone volcano-tectonic system 
Pages 260-276 
Jamie Farrell, Stephan Husen, Robert B. Smith

21. Seismicity and earthquake hazard analysis of the Teton Yellowstone region,, Wyoming 
Pages 277-296 
Bonnie J. Pickering White, Robert B. Smith, Stephan Husen, Jamie M. Farrell, Ivan Wong

 
thanks!

Lisa Morgan, lmorgan at usgs.gov
 

 

22. 

Recent magmatotectonic activity in the Eastern Snake River Plain Islannd Park region revealed by SAR interferometry 
Pages 297-304 
M.H. Aly, D.W. Rodgers, G.D. Thackray, S.S. Hughes

3. one paper in the volume is by Pierce, Kenneth L. and Morgan, Lisa A., 2009, Is the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot Driven by a Deep Mantle Plume? –Review of Volcanism, Faulting, and Uplift in Light of New Data in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 188, issue 1, p. 3-? pg.  

Lisa Morgan,
Research Geologist
 
U.S. Geological Survey
973 Federal Center
P.O. Box 25046
Denver, CO 80225-0046
 
lmorgan at usgs.gov
303-236-1861 office
303-236-3200 fax
303-938-8520 home
720-530-4080 cell
Lisa Morgan,
Research Geologist
 
U.S. Geological Survey
973 Federal Center
P.O. Box 25046
Denver, CO 80225-0046
 
lmorgan at usgs.gov
303-236-1861 office
303-236-3200 fax
303-938-8520 home
720-530-4080 cell

 		 	   		  
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