<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [Geysers] history of Yellowstone hot spot</title></head><body> <div>I believe the first paper was by Bob Smith at Univ Utah:</div> <div><br></div> <div>Smith, R.B., Shuey, R.T., Freidline, R.O., Otis, R.M., and Alley, L.B., 1974, Yellowstone Hot Spot: New Magnetic and Seismic Evidence: Geology, v. 2, n. 9, p. 451-455.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>At 9:49 PM -0700 10/15/06, Meg Justus wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Does anyone have a good source on the history of the Yellowstone Hot Spot?  Actually, not of the hot spot itself, but of how it got figured out?  Especially when it became an accepted piece of knowledge?  And when it was disseminated and how widely?</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I've checked what I've got, but I can't find anything on the subject.</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Thanks!</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Meg Justus</blockquote> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Randall Marrett<br> Associate Professor<br> <br> Department of Geological Sciences<br> Jackson School of Geosciences<br> University of Texas at Austin<br> 1 University Station C1100<br> Austin, Texas  78712-0254<br> <br> phone:   (512) 471-2113<br> fax:      (512) 471-9425<br> e-mail:  marrett@mail.utexas.edu<br> <br> web:      http://www.geo.utexas.edu/faculty/marrett/</div> </body> </html>