Neogene tephra correlations in eastern Idaho and Wyoming: Implications for Yellowstone hotspot-related volcanism and tectonic activity

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 837-856

  Anders, Mark H ^a   Saltzman, Janet ^b   Hemming, Sidney R ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Science Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASH-FLOW TUFFS; COLUMBIA RIVER; CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION; ERUPTION RATES; ERUPTIVE EVENTS; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FLOOD BASALT; HOLOCENES; HOT SPOT; ISOTOPIC DATING; JACKSON; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORTH AMERICAN; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; PALEOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; RAPID MOVEMENTS; RHYOLITIC ERUPTIONS; SINGLE PULSE; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TEPHRA DEPOSITS; TEPHRA LAYERS; VOLCANIC TRACK; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BASALT; GRANITE; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ASH FLOW; EMPLACEMENT; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; HOT SPOT; NEOGENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; RHYOLITE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE RIVER;

EID: 69949158913     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26300.1     Document Type: Article

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