Journal Articles on the Track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot

cover of jvgr volume with volcano on it.

The Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research recently (20 November 2009) published a special volume on the track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot. The journal was co-edited by USGS scientist Lisa Morgan and includes papers by YVO Coordinating Scientist Bob Smith and other colleagues. Below is the reference for the special volume followed by a list of the articles.

Morgan, Lisa A., Cathey, Hennrietta E., and Pierce, Kenneth L. (editors), 2009, The Track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on the Origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, 21-chapter special volume of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 188, issues 1-3, 304 pg.


Papers in the JVGR Special Volume on The Track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot

  1. The Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on the Origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain Volcanic Province by Lisa A. Morgan, Henrietta E. Cathey, Kenneth L. Pierce.

    2. Overview

  2. Is the track of the Yellowstone hotspot driven by a deep mantle plume? - Review of volcanism, faulting, and uplift in light of new data by Kenneth L. Pierce, Lisa A. Morgan.
  3. Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow by Robert B. Smith, Michael Jordan, Bernhard Steinberger, Christine M. Puskas, Jamie Farrell, Gregory P. Waite, Stephan Husen, Wu-Lung Chang, Richard O'Connell.
  4. Thermal structure beneath the Snake River Plain: Implications for the Yellowstone hotspot by William P. Leeman, Derek L. Schutt, Scott S. Hughes.
  5. The influence of plume head-lithosphere interaction on magmatism associated with the Yellowstone hotspot track by V.C. Manea, M. Manea, W.P. Leeman, D.L. Schutt.
  6. Mass transfer along the Yellowstone hotspot track I: Petrologic constraints on the volume of mantle-derived magma by Michael McCurry, David W. Rodgers.
  7. Mass transfer along the Yellowstone hotspot track II: Kinematic constraints on the volume of mantle-derived magma by David W. Rodgers, Michael McCurry.
  8. Density and lithospheric strength models of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain volcanic system from gravity and heat flow data by Katrina R. DeNosaquo, Robert B. Smith, Anthony R. Lowry.
  9. Mantle source provinces beneath the Northwestern USA delimited by helium isotopes in young basalts by D.W. Graham, M.R. Reid, B.T. Jordan, A.L. Grunder, W.P. Leeman, J.E. Lupton.

    10. Basalts

  10. High-K alkali basalts of the Western Snake River Plain (Idaho): Abrupt transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkaline plume-derived basalts by John W. Shervais, Scott K. Vetter.
  11. Mixing primitive and evolved olivine tholeiite magmas in the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho by Myles L. Miller, Scott S. Hughes.

    12. Rhyolites

  12. Boron isotopic variations in NW USA rhyolites: Yellowstone, Snake River Plain, Eastern Oregon by Ivan P. Savov, William P. Leeman, Cin-Ty A. Lee, Steven B. Shirey.
  13. Pyroxene thermometry of rhyolite lavas of the Bruneau-Jarbidge eruptive center, Central Snake River Plain by Henrietta E. Cathey, Barbara P. Nash.
  14. Thermochemical evolution of young rhyolites at Yellowstone: Evidence for a cooling but periodically replenished postcaldera magma reservoir by Jorge A. Vazquez, Stephanie F. Kyriazis, Mary R. Reid, Robin C. Sehler, Frank C. Ramos.
  15. Intermediate composition magma production in an intracontinental setting: Unusual andesites and dacites of the mid-Miocene Santa Rosa-Calico volcanic field, Northern Nevada by Matthew E. Brueseke, William K. Hart.

    16. Hydrothermal alteration and epithermal mineralization

  16. Early Yellowstone hotspot magmatism and gold metallogeny by Willis Hames, Derick Unger, James Saunders, George Kamenov.
  17. A preliminary study of older hot spring alteration in Sevenmile Hole, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming by Peter B. Larson, Allison Phillips, David John, Michael Cosca, Chad Pritchard, Allen Andersen, Jennifer Manion.

    18. Sediment and structural Indicators

  18. The Pliocene Lost River found to west: Detrital zircon evidence of drainage disruption along a subsiding hotspot track by Mary K.V. Hodges, Paul Karl Link, C. Mark Fanning.
  19. Stratigraphic record of the Yellowstone hotspot track, Neogene Sixmile Creek Formation grabens, southwest Montana by James W. Sears, Marc S. Hendrix, Robert C. Thomas, William J. Fritz.

    20. Geophysical data and Recent ongoing activity

  20. Earthquake swarm and b-value characterization of the Yellowstone volcano-tectonic system by Jamie Farrell, Stephan Husen, Robert B. Smith.
  21. Seismicity and earthquake hazard analysis of the Teton-Yellowstone region, Wyoming by Bonnie J. Pickering White, Robert B. Smith, Stephan Husen, Jamie M. Farrell, Ivan Wong.
  22. Recent magmatotectonic activity in the Eastern Snake River Plain-Island Park region revealed by SAR interferometry by M.H. Aly, D.W. Rodgers, G.D. Thackray, S.S. Hughes.