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Selected references on the Yellowstone hydrothermal system

Andrews, J.E., Riding, R. and Fouke, B.W., Depositional facies and aqueous-solid geochemistry of travertine-depositing hot springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.); discussion and reply, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71, 496-497, 2001.

Bargar, K.E. and Beeson, M.H., Hydrothermal alteration in research drill hole Y-2, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 66, 473-490, 1981.

Bargar, K.E. and Beeson, M.H., Hydrothermal alteration in research drill hole Y-3, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1054-C, 1-23, 1985.

Bargar, K.E. and Beeson, M.H., Hydrothermal mineralogy of research drill Hole Y-3, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council, 8, 111-117, 1984.

Bargar, K.E. and Beeson, M.H., Hydrothermal alteration in research drill hole Y-6, upper Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1054-B, 1-24, 1984.

Bargar, K.E. and Beeson, M H., Hydrothermal alteration in Yellowstone geyser basins, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1175, pp.59, 1980.

Bargar, K.E. and Fournier, R.O., Effects of glacial ice on subsurface temperatures of hydrothermal systems in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; fluid-inclusion evidence, Geology, 16, 1077-1080, 1988.

Bargar, K.E., Fournier, R.O., and Theodore, T.G., Particles in fluid inclusions from Yellowstone National Park--bacteria?: Geology, v. 13, p. 483-486, 1985 .

Bargar, K.E. and Muffler, L.J.P., Hydrothermal alteration in research drill hole Y-11 from a vapor-dominated geothermal system at Mud Volcano, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Guidebook - Wyoming Geological Association, 33, 139-152, 1982.

Braunstein, D. and Lowe, D.R., Relationship between spring and geyser activity and the deposition and morphology of high temperature (>73°C) siliceous sinter, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71, 747-763, 2001.

Clark, J.F. and Turekian, K.K., Time scale of hydrothermal water-rock reactions in Yellowstone National Park based on radium isotopes and radon, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 40, 169-180, 1990.

Clifton, C.G., Walters, C.C. and Simoneit, B.R.T., Hydrothermal petroleums from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A., Applied Geochemistry, 5, 169-191, 1990.

Estep, M.L.F., Carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of algae and bacteria from hydrothermal environments, Yellowstone National Park, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 48, 591-599, 1984.

Fenner, C.N., Keith, T.E.C., White, D.E. and Beeson, M.H., Hydrothermal alteration in Carnegie I Drill Hole, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1100, 196 pp., 1978.

Fouke, B.W., Farmer, J.D., Des Marais, D.J., Pratt, L., Sturchio, N.C., Burns, P.C. and Discipulo, M.K., Depositional facies and aqueous-solid geochemistry of travertine-depositing hot springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.), Journal of Sedimentary Research, 70, 565-585, 2000.

Fournier, R.O. Geochemistry and dynamics of the Yellowstone National Park hydrothermal system, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 17, 13-53, 1989.

Fournier, R.O., Christiansen, R.L., Hutchinson, R.A. and Pierce, K.L., A field-trip guide to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; volcanic, hydrothermal, and glacial activity in the region, U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, Report: B 2099, 46 pp., 1994.

Fournier, R.O., and Pitt, A.M., The Yellowstone magmatic-hydrothermal system, U.S.A.: Geothermal Resources Council 1985 International Symposium on Geothermal Energy, 319-327, 1985.

Fournier, R.O., Thompson, J.M., Cunningham, C.G. and Hutchinson, R., Conditions leading to a recent small hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 103, 1114-1120, 1991.

Fournier, R.O., Thompson, J.M. and Hutchinson, R.A., The geochemistry of hot spring waters at Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council, 18, 177-179, 1994.

Fournier, R.O., White, D.E., and Truesdell, A.H., Convective heat flow in Yellowstone National Park, in Proceedings of the 2nd U.N. Symp. on the Development and Use of Geothermal Resources, San Francisco, 731-739, 1976.

Fournier, R.O., Hydrothermal activity in relation to late-Holocene dynamics in the Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, in Flug, M. editor, Proceedings of the Conference on Science in the National Parks 1986, Physical Processes and Water Resources, 3, 92-107, 1988.

Fournier, R.O., Thompson, J.M., and Hutchinson, R.A., The geochemistry of hot spring waters at Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, USA, in Kharaka, Y.K. and Maest, A.S., eds., Proceedings, 7th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Park City, Utah, 1289-1292, 1992.

Fournier, R.O., Kennedy, B.M., Aoki, M., and Thompson, J.M., Correlation of gold in siliceous sinters with 3He/4He in hot spring waters of Yellowstone National Park: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58, 5401-5419, 1994.

Friedman, I., Effect of potential geothermal development on the thermal features of Yellowstone National Park; Part 1, Perspective 3; Possible effect of nearby geothermal development on Yellowstone National Park, GSA Today, 4, 297-299, 1994.

Friedman, I., Effects of potential geothermal development on the thermal features of Yellowstone National Park; Part 2, Perspective 5, Rebuttal to Sorey et al., GSA Today, 5, 21, 1995.

Friedman, I. and Norton, D.R., Data used for calculating chloride flux out of Yellowstone National Park for the water years 1983-1999, Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 00-0194, 48 pp., 2000.

Friedman, I. Norton, D.R. and Hutchinson, R.A., Monitoring of thermal activity in southwestern Yellowstone National Park and vicinity, 1980-1993, U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, Report: B 2067, 19 pp., 1993.

Friedman, I. and Norton, D.R., Anomalous chloride flux discharges from Yellowstone National Park, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 42, 225-234, 1990.

Friedman, I., Norton, D.R. and Hutchinson, R.A., Monitoring of thermal activity in Southwest Yellowstone National Park, Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 88-0532, 23 pp., 1988.

Friedman, I. and Norton, D.R., Ground temperatures in and near Yellowstone National Park, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1203, 1981.

Gunter, B.D., Aqueous phase-gaseous phase material balance studies of argon and nitrogen in hydrothermal features at Yellowstone National Park, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 37, 495-511, 1973.

Gunter, B.D. and Musgrave, B.C., Gas chromatographic measurements of hydrothermal emanations at Yellowstone National Park, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 30, 1175-1189, 1966.

Hearn, E.H., Kennedy, B.M. and Truesdell, A.H., Coupled variations in helium isotopes and fluid chemistry; Shoshone Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 3103-3113, 1990.

Honda, S. and Muffler, L.J.P., Hydrothermal alteration in core from research drill hole Y-1, upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 55, 1714-1737, 1970.

Hutchinson, R.A., Hydrothermal changes in the upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, after the1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake, Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 85-0290-A, 612-624, 1985.

Ingebritsen, S.E., Galloway, D.L., Colvard, E.M., Sorey, M.L. and Mariner, R.H., Time-variation of hydrothermal discharge at selected sites in the western United States: implications for monitoring, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 111, 1-23, 2001.

Keith, T.E.C. and Muffler, L.J.P., Minerals produced during cooling and hydrothermal alteration of ash flow tuff from Yellowstone drill hole Y-5, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 3, 373-402, 1978.

Keith, T.E.C., Thompson, J.M. and Mays, R.E., Selective concentration of cesium in analcime during hydrothermal alteration, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 47, 795-804, 1983.

Keith, T.E.C., White, D.E. and Beeson, M.H., Hydrothermal alteration and self-sealing in Y-7 and Y-8 drill holes in northern part of upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1054-A, 26 pp., 1978.

Kennedy, B.M., Reynolds, J.H., Smith, S.P. and Truesdell, A.H., Helium isotopes; Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Journal of Geophysical Research, 92, 12,477-12,489, 1987.

Kharaka, Y.K, Sorey, M.L., and Thordsen, J.J., Large-scale hydrothermal fluid discharges in the Norris-Mammoth corridor, Yellowstone National Park, USA, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 69-70, 201-205, 2000.

Kharaka Y.K., Thordsen, J. J., and White L.D., Isotope and chemical compositions of meteoric and thermal waters and snow from the greater Yellowstone National Park Region, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-194, 75p.

Lewis, A.J., Palmer, M.R. and Kemp, A.J., Variations of the rare earth element abundances in hydrothermal waters from the Yellowstone hydrothermal system, Wyoming, USA, Mineralogical Magazine, 58A, 525-526, 1994.

Lewis, A.J., Palmer, M.R., Sturchio, N.C. and Kemp, A.J., The rare earth element geochemistry of acid-sulphate and acid-sulphate-chloride geothermal systems from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 695-706, 1997.

Marler, G.D., Effects of the Hebgen Lake earthquake of August 17, 1959, on the hot springs of the Firehole Geyser basins, Yellowstone National Park, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 0435, 185-197, 1964.

Mazor, E., and Fournier, R.O., More on noble gases in Yellowstone National Park hot waters: Geochimica. et Cosmochimica. Acta, 37, 515-525, 1973.

Mazor, E. and Thompson, J.M., Evolution of geothermal fluids deduced from chemistry plots; Yellowstone National Park (U.S.A.), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 12, 351-360, 1982.

Morey, G.W., Fournier, R.O., Hemley, J.J., and Rowe, J.J., Field measurements of silica in waters from hot springs and geysers in Yellowstone National Park, in Short Papers in the Geologic and Hydrologic Sciences: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 424-C, 355-356, 1962.

Muffler, L.J.P., White, D.E. and Truesdell, A.H., Hydrothermal explosion craters in Yellowstone National Park, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 82, 723-740, 1971.

Muffler, L.J.P., White, D.E., Truesdell, A.H., Fournier, R.O., Violent late Pleistocene hydrothermal explosions in Yellowstone National Park, Special Paper - Geological Society of America, pp.158, 1968.

Norton, D.R. and Friedman, I., Chloride flux and surface water discharge out of Yellowstone National Park, 1982-1989, U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, Report: B 1959, 42 pp., 1991.

Norton, D.R., Friedman, I., Mohrman, J. and Hutchinson, R.A., Monitoring of thermal activity in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park and vicinity; Part 1, February 1985 - June 1988, U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 89-0211, 35 pp., 1989.

Norton, D.R. and Friedman, I., Chloride flux out of Yellowstone National Park, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 26, 231-250, 1985.

Palmer, M.R., Sturchio, N.C., The boron isotope systematics of the Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming) hydrothermal system; a reconnaissance, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 2811-2815, 1990.

Pitt, A.M. and Hutchinson, R.A., Hydrothermal changes related to earthquake activity at Mud Volcano, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Journal of Geophysical Research, 87, 2762-2766, 1982.

Remsen, C.C., Klump, J.V., Kaster, J.L., Paddock, R., Anderson, P. and Maki, J.S., Hydrothermal springs and gas fumaroles in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, National Geographic Research, 6, 509-515, 1990.

Rowe, J.J., Fournier, R.O., and Morey, G.W., Chemical analysis of thermal waters in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1960-1965: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1303, 31 p., 1973.

Stauffer, R.E. and Thompson, J.M., Phosphorus in hydrothermal waters of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 6, 755-763, 1978.

Sturchio, N.C., Keith, T.E.C. and Muehlenbachs, K., Erratum; Oxygen and carbon isotope ratios of hydrothermal minerals from Yellowstone, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 49, 392, 1992.

Sturchio, N.C., Keith, T.E.C. and Muehlenbachs, K., Oxygen and carbon isotope ratios of hydrothermal minerals from Yellowstone drill cores, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 40, 23-37, 1990.

Sturchio, N.C., Bohlke, J.K., Binz, C.M., Radium-thorium disequilibrium and zeolite-water ion exchange in a Yellowstone hydrothermal environment, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53, 1025-1034, 1989.

Sturchio, N.C., Keith, T.E.C. and Muehlenbachs, K., The dynamics of silica deposition in fractures; oxygen isotope ratios in hydrothermal silica from Yellowstone drill core Y-13, Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council, 12, 305-312, 1988.

Sturchio, N.C., Muehlenbachs, K. and Seitz, M.G., Element redistribution during hydrothermal alteration of rhyolite in an active geothermalsystem; Yellowstone drill cores Y-7 and Y-8, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 50, 1619-1631, 1986.

Sturchio, N.C. and Seitz, M.G., Behavior of nuclear waste elements during hydrothermal alteration of glassy rhyolite in an active geothermal system; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings, 44, 557-564, 1985.

Thompson, J.M. and DeMonge, J.M., Chemical analyses of hot springs, pools, and geysers from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and vicinity, 1980-1993, Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 96-0068, 66 pp., 1996.

Truesdell, A.H., and Fournier, R.O., Conditions in the deeper parts of the hot spring systems of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-428, 29 p., 1976.

White, D.E., Fournier, R.O., Muffler, L.J.P., and Truesdell, A.H., Physical results of research drilling in thermal areas of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 892, 77 p., 1975.

White, D.E., Hutchinson, R.A. and Keith, T.E.C., The geology and remarkable thermal activity of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Report: P 1456, 84 pp., 1988.

Wold, R.J. Mayhew, M. and Smith, R.B., Bathymetric and geophysical evidence for a hydrothermal explosion crater in Mary Bay, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, Journal of Geophysical Research, 82, 3733-3738, 1977.

Xu, Y, Schoonen, M.A.A. Nordstrom, D.K. Cunningham, K.M. and Ball, J.W., Sulfur geochemistry of hydrothermal waters in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA; II, Formation and decomposition of thiosulfate and polythionate in Cinder Pool, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 97, 407-423, 2000.

Xu, Y., Schoonen, M.A.A., Nordstrom, D.K., Cunningham, K.M. and Ball, J.W., Sulfur geochemistry of hydrothermal waters in Yellowstone National Park; I, The origin of thiosulfate in hot spring waters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 3729-3743, 1998.