Geochemical correlation of three large-volume ignimbrites from the Yellowstone hotspot track, Idaho, USA

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 261-277

  Ellis, Ben S ^a,d   Branney, M J ^a   Barry, T L ^a   Barfod, D ^b   Bindeman, I ^c   Wolff, J A ^d   Bonnichsen, B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Ignimbrite; Rhyolite; Snake River Plain; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CORRELATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOT SPOT; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; IGNIMBRITE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RHYOLITE; VOLCANISM;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855514195     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0510-z     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Anders M, Saltzman J, Hemming SJ (2009) Neogene tephra correlations in eastern Idaho and Wyoming: implications for Yellowstone hotspot-related volcanism and tectonic activity. Geol Soc Am Bull 121: 837-856. doi: 10. 1130/B26300. 1.
2. Andrews GDM, Branney MJ (2011) Emplacement and rheomorphic deformation of a large, lava-like rhyolitic ignimbrite: Grey's Landing, southern Idaho. Geol Soc Am Bull 123: 725-743. doi: 10. 1130/B30167. 1.
3. Andrews GDM, Branney MJ, Bonnichsen B, McCurry M (2008) Rhyolitic ignimbrites in the Rogerson Graben, southern Snake River Plain volcanic province: volcanic stratigraphy, eruption history and basin evolution. Bull Volcanol 70: 269-291. doi: 10. 1007/s00445-007-0139-0.
4. Bachmann O, Bergantz G (2008) The magma reservoirs that feed supereruptions. Elements 4: 17-21.
5. Bachmann O, Dungan M, Lipman P (2002) The Fish Canyon magma body, San Juan Volcanic Field, Colorado: rejuvenation and eruption of an upper-crustal batholith. J Petrol 43: 1469-1503.
6. Bailey RA (1976) Volcanism, structure, and geochronology of Long Valley caldera, Mono County, California. J Geophys Res 81: 725-744.
7. Baines PG, Sparks RSJ (2005) Dynamics of giant volcanic ash clouds from supervolcanic eruptions. Geophys Res Lett 32: L24808. doi: 10. 1029/2005GL024597.
8. 18O magmas in the late Miocene Heise Volcanic Field, Idaho: implications for the fate of Yellowstone hotspot calderas. Geology 35: 1019-1022. doi: 10. 1130/G24141A. 1.
9. Bonnichsen B (1982) The Bruneau-Jarbidge eruptive center, South-western Idaho. In: Bonnichsen B, Breckenridge RM (eds) Cenozoic geology of Idaho. Idaho Bur Min Geol Bull 26: 237-254.
10. Bonnichsen B, Citron GP (1982) The Cougar Point Tuff, southwestern Idaho. In: Bonnichsen B, Breckenridge RM (eds) Cenozoic geology of Idaho. Idaho Bur Mines Geol Bull 26: 255-281.
11. Bonnichsen B, Godchaux MM (2002) Late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene geology of southwestern Idaho with emphasis on basalts in the Bruneau-Jarbidge, Twin Falls, and western Snake River Plain regions. In: Bonnichsen B, White CM, McCurry M (eds) Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province. Idaho Geol Surv Bull 30: 233-312.
12. Bonnichsen B, Leeman WP, Honjo N, McIntosh WC, Godchaux MM (2008) Miocene silicic volcanism in southwestern Idaho: geochronology, geochemistry, and evolution of the central Snake River Plain. Bull Volcanol 70: 315-342. doi: 10. 1007/s00445-007-0141-6.
13. 18O rhyolites of the central Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA. Geology 33: 821-824. doi: 10. 1130/G21723. 1.
14. Branney MJ, Kokelaar BP (1992) A reappraisal of ignimbrite emplacement: progressive aggradation and changes from particulate to non-particulate flow during emplacement of high-grade ignimbrite. Bull Volcanol 54: 504-520.
15. Branney MJ, Bonnichsen B, Andrews GDM, Ellis B, Barry TL, McCurry M (2008) 'Snake River (SR) -type' volcanism at the Yellowstone hotspot track: distinctive products from unusual, high-temperature silicic super-eruptions. Bull Volcanol 70: 293-314. doi: 10. 1007/s00445-007-0140-7.
16. Brueseke ME, Hart WK (2008) Geology and petrology of the mid-Miocene Santa Rosa-Calico volcanic field, northern Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 113, 44p.
17. Camp VE (1995) Mid-Miocene propagation of the Yellowstone mantle plume head beneath the Columbia River basalt source region. Geology 23: 435-438.
18. Camp VE, Hanan BB (2008) A plume-triggered delamination origin for the Columbia River basalt group. Geosph 4: 480-495.
19. Camp VE, Ross ME (2004) Mantle dynamics and genesis of mafic magmatism in the intermontane Pacific Northwest. J Geophys Res 109: B08204. doi: 10. 1029/2003JB002838.
20. Cathey HE, Nash BP (2004) The Cougar Point Tuff: implications for thermochemical zonation and longevity of high-temperature, large-volume silicic magmas of the Miocene Yellowstone hotspot. J Petrol 45: 27-58. doi: 10. 1093/petrology/egg081.
21. Christiansen RL (2001) The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. US Geol Sur Prof Paper 729-G: 145.
22. Christiansen RL, Foulger GR, Evans JR (2002) Upper mantle origin of the Yellowstone hotspot. Geol Soc Am Bull 114: 1245-1256.
23. Coble MA, Mahood GA (2008) New geologic evidence for additional 16. 5-15. 5 Ma silicic calderas in northwest Nevada related to initial impingement of the Yellowstone hot spot. IOP Conf Series: Earth and Env Sci 3: 012002.
24. de Silva SL, Gosnold WD (2007) Episodic construction of batholiths: insights from the spatiotemporal development of an ignimbrite flare-up. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 167: 320-335.
25. Ellis BS (2009) Rhyolitic explosive eruptions of the central Snake River Plain, Idaho: investigations of the lower Cassia Mountains succession and surrounding areas. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leicester, 169 p.
26. Ellis B, Branney MJ (2010) Silicic phreatomagmatism in the Snake River Plain: the Deadeye Member. Bull Volcanol 72: 1241-1257. doi: 10. 1007/s00445-010-0400-9.
27. Ellis BS, Barry TL, Branney MJ, Wolff JA, Bindeman I, Wilson R, Bonnichsen B (2010) Petrologic constraints on the development of a large-volume, high temperature, silicic magma system: the Twin Falls eruptive centre, central Snake River Plain. Lithos 120: 475-489. doi: 10. 1016/j. lithos. 2010. 09. 008.
28. Elston WE, Seager WR, Clemons RE (1975) Emory cauldron, Black Range, New Mexico, source of the Kneeling Nun Tuff. Field Conf Guide NM Geol Soc 26: 283-292.
29. Evans JG (1992) Geologic map of the Dooley Mountain Quadrangle, Baker County, Oregon. US Geol Survey Geology Quad GQ-1694, scale 1: 24000.
30. 3 of magma. Geology 30: 347-350.
31. Godchaux MM, Bonnichsen B (2002) Syneruptive magma-water and posteruptive lava-water interactions in the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, during the past 12 million years. In: Bonnichsen B, White CM, McCurry M (eds) Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province. Idaho Geol Surv Bull 30: 387-434.
32. Henry CD, Price JG, Rubin JN, Parker DF, Wolff JA, Self S, Franklin R, Barker DS (1988) Widespread, lava-like silicic volcanic rocks of Trans-Pecos Texas. Geology 16: 509-512.
33. Henry CD, Castor SB, McIntosh WC, Heizler MT, Cuney M, Chemillac R (2006) Timing of oldest Steens basalt magmatism from precise dating of silicic volcanic rocks, McDermitt caldera and northwest Nevada Volcanic Field. Eos Transactions AGU 87 (52).
34. Hildreth W, Wilson CJN (2007) Compositional zoning of the Bishop Tuff. J Petrol 48: 951-999. doi: 10. 1093/petrology/egm007.
35. Honjo N, Bonnichsen B, Leeman WP, Stormer JC (1992) Mineralogy and geothermometry of high-temperature rhyolites from the central and western Snake River Plain. Bull Volcanol 54: 220-237.
36. Hooper PR, Camp VE, Reidel SP, Ross ME (2007) The origin of the Columbia River Flood Basalt province: plume versus non-plume models. In: Foulger G, Jurdy D (eds) Plates, plumes and planetary processes. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 430: 635-668.
37. Jellinek AM, De Paolo DJ (2003) A model for the origin of large silicic magma chambers: precursors of caldera-forming eruptions. Bull Volcanol 65: 363-381.
38. Jones GS, Gregory JM, Stott PA, Tett SFB, Thorpe RB (2005) An AOGCM simulation of the climate response to a volcanic super-eruption. Clim Dyn 25: 725-738.
39. Jordan BT, Grunder AL, Duncan RA, Deino AL (2004) Geochronology of age-progressive volcanism of the Oregon High Plains: implications for the plume interpretation of Yellowstone. J Geophys Res 109: B10202-B10221.
40. Kuiper KF, Deino A, Hilgen FJ, Krijgsman W, Renne PR, Wijbrans JR (2008) Synchronizing rock clocks of Earth history. Science 320: 500-504. doi: 10. 1126/science. 1154339.
41. Lanphere MA, Champion DE, Christiansen RL, Izett GA, Obradovich JD (2002) Revised ages for tuffs of the Yellowstone plateau volcanic field: assignment of the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff to a new geomagnetic polarity event. Geol Soc Am Bull 114: 559-568. doi: 10. 1130/0016-7606(2002)114& 0559: RAFTOT> 2. 0. CO; 2.
42. Leeman WP, Annen C, Dufek J (2008) Snake River Plain-Yellowstone silicic volcanism: implications for magma genesis and magma fluxes. Geol Soc Lond Spec Publ 304: 235-259. doi: 10. 1144/SP304. 12.
43. Leeman WP, Schutt DL, Hughes SS (2009) Thermal structure beneath the Snake River Plain: implications for the Yellowstone hotspot. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 188: 57-67. doi: 10. 1016/j. jvolgeores. 2009. 01. 034.
44. Lindsay JM, de Silva S, Trumbull R, Emmermann R, Wemmer K (2001) La Pacana caldera, N. Chile: a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy and volcanology of one of the world's largest resurgent calderas. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 106: 145-173. doi: 10. 1093/petrology/42. 3. 459.
45. Lipman PW (1984) The roots of ash-flow calderas in North America: windows into the tops of granitic batholiths. J Geophys Res 89: 8801-8841.
46. Lipman PW (1997) Subsidence of ash-flow calderas: relation to caldera size and magma-chamber geometry. Bull Volcanol 59: 198-218.
47. Ludwig KR (2003) Isoplot 3. 00. Berkeley Geochronology Center, Spec Pub 4, 70 p.
48. Manea VC, Manea M, Leeman WP, Schutt DL (2009) The influence of plume head-lithosphere interaction on magmatism associated with the Yellowstone hotspot track. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 188: 68-85. doi: 10. 1016/j. jvolgeores. 2008. 12. 012.
49. 39Ar geochronology. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 10(2). doi: 10. 1029/2009GC002643.
50. Mason BG, Pyle DM, Oppenheimer C (2004) The size and frequency of the largest explosive eruptions on Earth. Bull Volcanol 66: 735-768. doi: 10. 1007/s00445-004-0355-9.
51. Maughan LL, Christiansen EH, Best MG, Gromm CS, Deino AL, Tingey DG (2002) The Oligocene Lund Tuff, Great Basin, USA: a very large volume monotonous intermediate. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 113: 129-157. doi: 10. 1016/S0377-0273(01)00256-6.
52. Morgan LA, McIntosh WC (2005) Timing and development of the Heise volcanic field, Snake River Plain, Idaho, western USA. Geol Soc Am Bull 117: 288-306. doi: 10. 1130/B25519. 1.
53. Nash BP, Perkins ME, Christensen JN, Lee DC, Halliday AN (2006) The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time: Nd and Hf isotopes in silicic magmas. Earth Plan Sci Lett 247: 143-156. doi: 10. 1016/j. epsl. 2006. 04. 030.
54. Oakley WL, Link PK (2006) Geologic map of the Davis Mountain Quadrangle, Gooding and Camas Counties, Idaho. Idaho Geol Surv Technical Report T-06-6.
55. Perkins ME, Nash BP (2002) Explosive silicic volcanism of the Yellowstone hotspot: the ash fall tuff record. Geol Soc Am Bull 114: 367-381.
56. Perkins ME, Nash WP, Brown FH, Fleck RJ (1995) Fallout tuffs of Trapper Creek Idaho-a record of Miocene explosive volcanism in the Snake River Plain volcanic province. Geol Soc Am Bull 107: 1484-1506.
57. Perkins ME, Williams SK, Brown FH, Nash WP, McIntosh W (1998) Sequence, age, and source of silicic fallout tuffs in middle to late Miocene basins of the northern Basin and Range Province. Geol Soc Am Bull 110: 344-360. doi: 10. 1130/00167606(2002)114& 0367: ESVOTY> 2. 0. CO; 2.
58. Pierce KL, Morgan LA (1992) The track of the Yellowstone hotspot: volcanism, faulting and uplift. In: Link PK, Kuntz MA, Platt LB (eds) Regional geology of Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming. Geol Soc Am Mem 179: 1-53.
59. Rampino MR (2002) Supereruptions as a threat to civilizations on Earth-like planets. Icarus 156: 562-569.
60. Rampino MR, Self S (1992) Volcanic winter and accelerated glaciation following the Toba super-eruption. Nature 359: 50-52.
61. Rose WI, Chesner CA (1987) Dispersal of ash in the great Toba eruption, 75 ka. Geology 15: 913-917.
62. Rose WI, Riley CM, Darteville S (2003) Sizes and shapes of 10 Ma distal fall pyroclasts in the Ogallala Group, Nebraska. J Geol 111: 115-124.
63. Rytuba JJ, McKee EH (1984) Peralkaline ash flow tuffs and calderas of the McDermitt volcanic field, southeast Oregon and north central Nevada. J Geophys Res 89(B10): 8616-8628.
64. Self S (2010) A new look at the deposits and eruption sequence of the Otowi Member, Bandelier Tuff Formation, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Geol Soc Am 42(5): 5, Abstracts with Programs.
65. Shervais JW, Hanan BB (2008) Lithospheric topography, tilted plumes, and the track of the Snake River-Yellowstone hot spot. Tectonics 27: TC5004.
66. Shervais JW, Vetter SK, Hanan BB (2006) Layered mafic sill complex beneath the eastern Snake River Plain: evidence from cyclical geochemical variations in basalt. Geology 34: 365-368. doi: 10. 1130/G22226. 1.
67. Soler MM, Caffe PJ, Coira BL, Onoe AT, Kay SM (2007) Geology of the Vilama caldera: a new interpretation of a large-scale explosive event in the Central Andean plateau during the Upper Miocene. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 164: 27-53. doi: 10. 1016/j. jvolgeores. 2007. 04. 002.
68. Sparks RSJ, Francis PW, Hamer RD, Pankhurst RJ, O'Callaghan LO, Thorpe RS, Page R (1985) Ignimbrites of the Cerro Galan caldera, NW Argentina. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 24: 205-248.
69. Williams PL, Mytton JW, Covington HR (1990) Geologic map of the Stricker 1 quadrangle, Cassia, Twin Falls, and Jerome Counties, Idaho. US Geol Surv Misc Inv Series Map I-2078 scale 1: 48, 000.
70. Wilson CJN (2001) The 26. 5 ka Oruanui eruption, New Zealand: an introduction and overview. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 112: 133-174.
71. Wohletz KH (1999) MAGMA: calculates IUGS volcanic rock classification, densities, and viscosities. Los Alamos National Laboratory computer code LA-CC 99-28, Los Alamos.
72. Wolff JA, Ramos FC, Hart GL, Patterson JD, Brandon AD (2008) Columbia River flood basalts from a centralized crustal magmatic system. Nat Geosci 1: 177-180. doi: 10. 1038/ngeo124.