37 The Track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot: What is the Geology Telling Us About the Processes Below? I

Wednesday, 5 May 2004
8:20 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:20 AM
  YELLOWSTONE PLUMEHEAD MEETS FARALLON SLAB: A PLAUSIBLE MECHANISM DRIVING NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENTAL TECTONICS FOR 80 MY
  Phillip D. Ihinger, Univ of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and James M. Watkins, Univ of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Jesse E. Bernhardt, Univ of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Breck R. Johnson, Univ of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
  72940 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  MANTLE HYDRATION AND SR-ND ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS IN THE YELLOWSTONE REGION
  David C. Adams, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  71908 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OREGON HIGH LAVA PLAINS AND YELLOWSTONE-SNAKE RIVER PLAIN VOLCANIC SYSTEMS
  Brennan T. Jordan, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Anita L. Grunder, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR
  72896 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  EARLY HISTORY OF THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT: THE ASH FALL TUFF RECORD
  Barbara P. Nash, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Michael E. Perkins, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  72728 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  CONSTANT SILICIC ERUPTION AND MIGRATION RATES OF YELLOWSTONE-SNAKE RIVER PLAIN VOLCANISM: EVIDENCE FOR A CLASSICAL HOTSPOT MODEL?
  Mark H. Anders, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY and Sidney Hemming, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
  72331 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT: PLUME OR PLUM
  Robert B. Smith, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  72640 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  GEOLOGIC EVIDENCE FOR A MANTLE PLUME ORIGIN FOR YELLOWSTONE: THE HISTORICAL PATTERN AND SCALE OF VOLCANISM, FAULTING, AND UPLIFT ALONG THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT TRACK
  Kenneth L. Pierce, U.S. Geol Survey, Bozeman, MT and Lisa A. Morgan, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  72193 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  RE-EVALUATING THE "OWYHEE-HUMBOLDT" ERUPTIVE CENTER: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VOLUMINOUS MIDDLE MIOCENE SILICIC VOLCANISM AND THE OWYHEE PLATEAU
  Matthew E. Brueseke, Miami Univ, Oxford, OH and William K. Hart, Miami Univ, Oxford, OH and Kurt A. Shoemaker, Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN
  72282 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:20 AM
  MID-MIOCENE THOLEIITIC BASALT IN THE ANCESTRAL CASCADES ARC: GEOLOGY, VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE LOVEJOY BASALT
  Cathy J. Busby, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA and Noah Garrison, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA and Phillip Gans, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA and David Wagner, California Div of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, CA
  72866 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:40 AM
  A TWO-STAGE SPREADING MODEL FOR THE YELLOWSTONE MANTLE PLUME HEAD
  Victor E. Camp, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA and Martin E. Ross, Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA
  72254 (THEME SESSIONS)