'Snake River (SR)-type' volcanism at the Yellowstone hotspot track: Distinctive products from unusual, high-temperature silicic super-eruptions

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 293-314

  Branney, M J ^a   Bonnichsen, B ^b   Andrews, G D M ^a,e   Ellis, B ^a   Barry, T L ^c   McCurry, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hot spot; Ignimbrite; Intraplate; Rheomorphic; Snake River; Super eruption; Welded tuff; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

ASH FLOW; HOT SPOT; IGNIMBRITE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; RHYOLITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

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

PECOS; PLINIA;

EID: 38049161787     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-007-0140-7     Document Type: Article

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