Miocene to Holocene landscape evolution of the western Snake River Plain region, Idaho: Using the SHRIMP detrital zircon provenance record to track eastward migration of the Yellowstone hotspot

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1027-1050

  Beranek, Luke P ^a,b   Link, Paul Karl ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^c  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Idaho; Neogene; Nevada; SHRIMP detrital zircon; Snake River Plain; Yellowstone hotspot

Indexed keywords

SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE (SHRIMP); SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT;

CATCHMENTS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WAKES; ZIRCON;

RIVERS;

HOLOCENE; HOT SPOT; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; SHRIMP DATING; ZIRCON;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748990319     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25896.1     Document Type: Article

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