Thermal structure beneath the Snake River Plain: Implications for the Yellowstone hotspot

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 188, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 57-67

  Leeman, William P ^a   Schutt, Derek L ^b   Hughes, Scott S ^c  

^a National Science Foundation   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hotspot; mantle temperature; Snake River Plain; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; ICELANDS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MAGMA GENERATION; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; MELT PRODUCTION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER PLATE; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; RIVERS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; P-T CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPWELLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; ICELAND; IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING CRATON;

EID: 71749083022     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.01.034     Document Type: Article

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