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From: Christiansen, R. L., 2001, The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-G, 145 p., 3 plates, scale 1:125,000.

  • Geologic Map of the Yellowstone Plateau Area | Plate 1 PDF (5.3 MB) | Encapsulated PostScript (18.5 MB) |
  • Geologic Map of the Island Park Area, Yellowstone Region | Plate 2 PDF (2.7 MB) | Encapsulated PostScript (3.8 MB) |
  • Upper Cenozoic Geologic Map, Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field | Plate 3 PDF (1.7 MB) | Encapsulated PostScript (6.6 MB) |
  • University of Utah Yellowstone Geologic System Database (GeoGIS)

     

    Online Reports

    Ball, J.W., McCleskey, R.B., Nordstrom, D.K., Holloway, J.M., and Verplanck, P.L., 2002, Water-Chemistry Data for Selected Springs, Geysers, and Streams in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1999-2000. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-382. 112 p.

    Ball, J. B., Nordstrom, D. K., McCleskey, R. B., Schoonen, M. A., Xu, Y., 2001, Water-chemistry and on-site sulfur-speciation data for selected springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1996-1998. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-49.

    Christiansen, R. L., 2001, The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-G, 145 p., 3 plates, scale 1:125,000.

    Fournier, R. O., Weltman, U., Counce, D., White, L. D., and Janik, C. J., 2002, Results Of weekly chemical And isotopic monitoring of selected springs In Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park during June-September, 1995: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-344, 50 p.

    Ingebritsen, S.E., Galloway, D.L., Colvard, E.M., Sorey, M.L. and Mariner, R.H., 2001,  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.

    Kharaka Y.K., Thordsen, J. J., and White L.D.,2002,  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.

    Pierce, K.L., Cannon, K.P., Meyer, G.A., Trebesch, M.J., and Watts, R., 2002, Post-glacial inflation-deflation cycles, tilting and faulting in the Yellowstone caldera based on Yellowstone Lake shorelines, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0142.

     

    References

    Books, Professional Papers, and Bulletins

    Bargar, K. E., 1978, Geology and thermal history of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1444, 55 p.

    Christiansen, R. L., 1982, Late Cenozoic volcanism of the Island Park area, eastern Idaho, in Bonnichsen, B., and Breckenridge, R. M., eds., Cenozoic geology of Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 26, p. 345-368.

    Christiansen, R. L., and Blank, H. R., Jr., 1972, Volcanic stratigraphy of the Quaternary rhyolite plateau in Yellowstone National Park: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-B, 18 p.

    Fournier, R. O., Christiansen, R. L., Hutchinson, R. A., and Pierce, K. L., 1994, 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 2099. 46 p.

    Good, J.M., and Pierce, K.L., Interpreting the Landscapes of Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks ? Recent and Ongoing Geology: Grand Teton Natural History Association, 58 p.

    Smith, R. B., and Siegel, L., 2000, Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park: New York, Oxford University Press, p. 242

    Sorey, M. L., ed., 1991, Effects of potential geothermal development in the Corwin Springs Known Geothermal Resources Area, Montana, on the thermal features of Yellowstone National Park: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4052, 207 p.

    White, D.E., Fournier, R.O., Muffler, L.J.P., and Trusdell, A.H., 1975, Physical results of research drilling in thermal areas of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 892, 70 p.

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

     

    Scientific Articles

    Arnet, F., Kahle, H.-G.; Klingelé, E. ; Smith, R. B. ; Meertens, C. M.; Dzurisin, D., 1997, Temporal gravity and height changes of Yellowstone caldera, 1977-1994, Geophysical Research Letters,. v. 24 , n. 22 , p. 2741-2744.

    Baker, M. R., L. W. Braile, and R. B. Smith, 1982, Amplitude normalization of seismograms from multiple seismograph recording systems for the Yellowstone Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Crustal structure of the eastern Snake River Plain, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 84, p. 2597-2610.

    Benz, H. and R. B. Smith, 1984, Simultaneous inversion for lateral velocity variations and hypocenters in the Yellowstone region using earthquake and refraction data,Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 1208-1220.

    Braile, L. W., R. B. Smith, J. Ansorge, M. R. Baker, M. A. Sparlin, C. Prodehl, M. M. Schilly, J. H. Healy, S. Mueller, and K. H. Olsen, 1982, The Yellowstone Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Crustal structure of the eastern Snake River Plain, Journal of Geophysical Research v. 84, p. 2597-2610.

    Carle, S. F., J. M. Glen, V. E. Langenheim, R. B. Smith and H. W. Oliver, 1991, Isostatic gravity map and principal facts for 694 gravity stations in Yellowstone National Park and vicinity, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, 1 Over-sized sheet, scale 1:125,000 map, and 1 5 1/4 inch diskette, U. S. Geol. Survey, Open-file Report 90- 649A and B.

    Christiansen, R. L., 1984, "Yellowstone magmatic evolution: Its bearing on understanding large-volume explosive volcanism." Explosive Volcanism, Its Inception, Evolution and Hazards, Washington, D.C., National Academy of Sciences, p. 84-95.

    Christiansen, R. L., and Embree, G. F., 1987, Island Park, Idaho; Transition from rhyolites of the Yellowstone Plateau to basalts of the Snake River Plain: Boulder, Colo., Geological Society of America, Centennial Guidebook Series, Rocky Mountain Section, p. 103-108.

    Christiansen, R.L., and Hutchinson, R.A., 1987, Rhyolite-basalt volcanism of the Yellowstone Plateau and hydrothermal activity of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide, v. 2, p. 165-172.

    Clawson, S. R., R. B. Smith, and H. M. Benz, 1989, P-wave attenuation of the Yellowstone caldera from three-dimensional inversion of spectral decay using explosion source seismic data, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 7205-7222.

    Dzurisin, D., Wicks, C.J., Jr., and Thatcher, W., 1999, Renewed uplift at the Yellowstone caldera measured by leveling surveys and satellite radar interferometry: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 61, p. 349-355.

    Dzurisin, D., Yamashita, K. M., and Kleinman, J. W., 1994, Mechanisms of crustal uplift and subsidence at the Yellowstone caldera, Wyoming: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 56, p. 261-270.

    Eaton, G. P., Christiansen, R. L., Iyer, H. M., Pitt, A. M., Blank, H. R., Jr., Zietz, I., Mabey, D. R., and Gettings, M. E., 1975, Magma beneath Yellowstone National Park: Science, v. 188, p. 787-796.

    Finn, C.A. and Morgan, L.A., 2002, High-resolution aeromagnetic survey of volcanic terrain, Yellowstone National Park, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 115, p. 207-231.

    Fournier, R. O., 1969, Old Faithful: A physical model: Science, v. 163, p. 304-305.

    Fournier, R. O., D. D. Blackwell, R. L. Christiansen, G. P. Eaton, F. E. Goff, J. F. Hermance, R. Hermann, J. H. Reynolds, R.B. Smith, J. D. Varley, and H. A. Wollenburg, 1987, The objectives for deep scientific drilling in Yellowstone National Park, A report by the Yellowstone National Park Task Group to the Continental Scientific Drilling Committee, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 69 pp.

    Hardman, W. and R. B. Smith, 1991, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1990 through December 31, 1990, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1989, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 38p.

    Hildreth, W., Christiansen, R. L., and O'Neil, J. R., 1984, Catastrophic isotopic modification of rhyolitic magma at times of caldera subsidence, Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 8339-8369.

    Hildreth, W., Halliday, A. N., and Christiansen, R. L., 1991, Isotopic and chemical evidence concerningthe genesis and contamination of basaltic and rhyolitic magma beneath the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field,  Journal of Petrology, v. 32, p. 63-138.

    Hill, D. P., P. A. Reasenberg, A. Michael, W. J. Arabasz, G. Beroza, D. Brumbaugh, J. N. Brune, R. Castro, S. Davis, D. dePolo, W. L. Ellsworth, J. Gomberg, S. Harmsen, L. House, S. Jackson, M. Johnston, L. Jones, R. Keller, S. Malone, L. Munguia, S Nava, J Pechmann, A. Sanford, R. Simpson, R. B. Smith, M. Stark, M. Stickney, A. Vidal, S., S. Walter, V. Wong, and J. Zollweg, 1993, Seismicity remotely triggered by the M 7.3 Landers, California, earthquake, 1993, Science, v. 260, p. 1617-1623.

    Humphreys, G., D. Schutz, K. Dueker and R. B. Smith, 2000, Plume or no plume at Yellowstone, GSA Today, vol. 10, no. 12, p.1-7.

    Husen, S., R.B. Smith, and G.P. Waite, 2004, Evidence for gas and magmatic sources beneath the Yellowstone volcanic field from seismic tomographic imaging, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 131 (3-4), p. 397-410.

    Husen, S., R. Taylor, R.B. Smith, and H. Healser, 2004, Changes in geyser behavior and remotely triggered seismicity in Yellowstone National Park produced by the 2002 M7.9 Denali fault earthquake, Geology, v. 32, no. 6, 537-540; doi: 10.1130/G20381.1.

    Johnson, S.Y., Stephenson, W.J., Morgan, L.A., Shanks, W.C. III, and Pierce, K.L., 2003, Hydrothermal and tectonic activity in northern Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming:  Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.115, no. 8, p. 954-971.

    Kieffer, S. W., 1984, Seismicity at Old Faithful geyser: An isolated source of geothermal noise and possible analogue of volcanic seismicity: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 22, p. 59-95.

    Lageson, D. R., D. C., Adams, L. Morgan, K. L. Pierce, and R. B. Smith, 1999, Neogene-Quaternary tectonics and volcanism of the southern Jackson Hole, Wyoming and southeastern Idaho, in Hughes, S. S. and Thackrey, G. D., eds., Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 115-130.

    Lehman, J. A., R. B. Smith, M. M. Schilly, and L. W. Braile, 1982, Crustal structure of the Yellowstone caldera from delay-time analyses and correlation with gravity data, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 84, p. 2713-2730.

    Lowry, A. R. and R. B. Smith, 1995, Strength and rheology of western U. S. Cordillera, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, p. 17,947-17,964.

    Lowry, A. R., N. M. Ribe, and R. B. Smith, 2000, Dynamic elevation of the Cordillera, western United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, p. 23,371-23,390.

    Meertens, C. M. and R. B. Smith, 1991, Crustal deformation of the Yellowstone caldera from first GPS measurements: 1987-1989, Geophysical  Research Letters, v. 18, p. 1763- 1766.

    Miller, D. S. and R. B. Smith, 1999, P and S velocity structure of the Yellowstone volcanic field from local earthquake and controlled source tomography,Journal of Geophysical Research,  v. 104, p. 15,105-15,121.

    Morgan, P., D. D. Blackwell, R. E. Spafford, and R. B. Smith, 1977, Heat flow measurements in Yellowstone Lake and the thermal structure of the Yellowstone Caldera, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 82, p. 379-3732.

    Morgan, P., D. D. Blackwell, R. Spafford, and R. B. Smith, 1975, Evidence from heat flow measurements for laterally extensive geothermal fluid systems in the Yellowstone Caldera, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Proceedings Second United Nations Symposium on Geothermal Energy, 2, p. 1155-1160.

    Morgan, L.A., Shanks, W.C. III, Lovalvo, David, A., Johnson, S.Y., Stephenson, W.J., Pierce, K.L., Harlan, S.S., Finn, C.A., Lee, G., Webring, M., Schulze, B., Dühn, J., Sweeney, R., and Balistrieri, L., 2002, Exploration and Discovery in Yellowstone Lake: Results from High-Resolution Sonar Imaging, Seismic Reflection Profiling, and Submersible Studies in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 122, p. 221-242.

    Morgan, Lisa A., Shanks, Pat, Lovalvo, Dave, Pierce, Kenneth, Lee, Gregory, Webring, Michael, Stephenson, William, Johnson, Samuel, Finn, Carol, Schulze, and Harlan, Stephem, 2003, The Floor of Yellowstone Lake is Anything but Quiet! New Discoveries in Lake Mapping, Yellowstone Science, v. 11, no. 2, p.14-30.

    Morgan, L.A., Shanks III, W.C., Johnson, K.M., Lovalvo, D., Johnson, S.Y., Stephenson, W., Harlan, S.S., Pierce, K.L., White, E.A., Waples, J., Klump, J.V., 2000, New Discoveries from the Floor of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone Science, v. 8, p 20-21.

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

    Nava, S. J., and R. B. Smith, 1996, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1992, to December 31, 1994, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1992-1994, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 62p.

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

    Otis, R. M., R. B. Smith, and R. J. Wold, 1977, Geophysical surveys of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 82, p. 3705-3718.

    Pelton, J. R. and R. B. Smith, 1979, Recent crustal uplift in Yellowstone National Park, Science, 206, p. 1179-1182.

    Pelton, J. R. and R. B. Smith, 1982, Contemporary vertical surface displacements in Yellowstone National Park, Journal of Geophysical Research v. 87, p. 2745-2761.

    Peyton, S. L. and R. B. Smith, 1990, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1989 through December 31, 1989, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1989, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 33p.

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

    Pierce, K.L., and Morgan, L. A., 1992, The track of the Yellowstone hot spot: Volcanism, faulting, and uplift, in Link, P.K., Kuntz, M.A., and Platt, L.B., eds., Regional geology of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming,  Geological Society of America Bulletin,  p. 1-53.

    Pierce, K.L., Morgan, L.A., and Saltus, R.W., 2000, Yellowstone plume head: Postulated relations to the Vancouver slab, continental boundaries, and climate, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-498, 39 pgs.

    Pitt, A. M., Weaver, C. S., and Spence, W., 1979, The Yellowstone Park earthquake of June 30, 1975: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 69, p. 187-205.

    Rojstaczer, S., Galloway, D. L., Ingebritsen, S. E., Rubin, D. M., 2003, Variability in geyser eruptive timing and its causes: Yellowstone National Park, Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 30, NO. 18, 1953, doi:10.1029/2003GL017853. (Geyser-frequency data from Upper Geyser Basin in PDF format or in Microsoft Excel format for supporting data)

    Schilly, M. M., R. B. Smith, J. Ansorge, J. H. Lehman, and L. W. Braile, 1982, The Yellowstone-eastern Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Upper-crustal structure, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 84, p. 2692-2704.

    Smith, R. B., 1977, Preface to the Yellowstone Symposium, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 82, p. 3663.

    Smith, R. B., 1978, Seismicity, crustal structure, and intraplate tectonics of the Western Cordillera, in Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera, editors, R. B. Smith and G. P. Eaton, Memoir 152, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., p. 111-144.

    Smith, R. B., 1982, Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park, Special preprint for Enrico Fermi International School of Physics Students, Varenna, Italy, 35 p.

    Smith, R. B., 1982, Introduction to Special Symposium Volume, Yellowstone- Snake River Plain, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 84, p. 2581.

    Smith, R. B., 1990, Report On: Processing and analysis for the Yellowstone seismograph network, Report to U. S. Geol. Survey Review of Regional Networks, Washington, D. C., August, 19p.

    Smith, R. B. 2000, Windows Into Yellowstone: An interview with geologist and geophysicist Robert. B. Smith, Yellowstone Science, v. 8, no. 4, p. 1-13

    Smith, R. B. and W. J. Arabasz, 1991, Seismicity of the Intermountain Seismic Belt, in Neotectonics of North America, D. B. Slemmons, E. R. Engdahl, M. L. Zoback and D. D. Blackwell (editors), Geol. Soc. Am., SMV V-1, Decade Map Volume 1, p. 185- 228.

    Smith, R. B. and L. W. Braile, 1982, Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park, Thirty- Third Annual Field Conference - 1982 Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, p. 233-250.

    Smith, R. B. and L. W. Braile, 1984, Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park; in Studies In Geophysics; Explosive Volcanism: Inception, Evolution, and Hazards, National Academy Press, p. 96-111.

    Smith, R. B. and L. W. Braile, 1993, Topographic signature, space-time evolution, and physical properties of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain volcanic system: the Yellowstone hotspot, in A. W. Snoke, J. Steidtmann, and S. M. Roberts, editors, "Geology of Wyoming", Geological Survey of Wyoming Memoir No. 5, p. 694-754.

    Smith, R. B., and Braile, L.W., 1994, The Yellowstone Hotspot: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 61, p. 121-88.

    Smith, R. B., and Christiansen, R. L., 1980, Yellowstone Park as a window on the Earth's interior: Scientific American. v. 242, p. 104-17.

    Smith, R. B. and A. Lindh, 1978, A compilation of fault plane solutions of the Western United States, (in) Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera, editors, R. B. Smith and G. P. Eaton, Memoir 152, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., p. 107-110.

    Smith, R. B. and M. Sbar, 1974, Contemporary tectonics and seismicity of the Western United States with emphasis on the Intermountain Seismic Belt, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 85, p. 1205-1218.

    Smith, R. B., R. T. Shuey, R. Freidline, R. Otis, and L. Alley, 1974, Yellowstone Hot Spot: New magnetic and seismic evidence: Geology, 2, 451-455. Smith, R. B., G. P. Eaton, and D. R. Mabey, 1976, Regional geophysics and tectonics of the Intermountain West, Penrose Conference Report, Geology, p. 437-438.

    Smith, R. B., R. T. Shuey, J. R. Pelton, and J. P. Bailey, 1977, Yellowstone Hot Spot, crustal properties from new earthquake and magnetic data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 82, p. 3665-3676.

    Smith, R. B., L. W. Braile, M. M. Schilly, J. Ansorge, C. Prodehl, M. Baker, J. H. Healey, S. Mueller, and R. Greensfelder, 1982, The Yellowstone- eastern Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Crustal structure of Yellowstone, Journal of Geophysical Research, 84, p. 2583-2596.

    Smith, R. B., R. E. Reilinger, C. M. Meertens, J. R. Hollis, S. R. Holdahl, D. Dzurisin, W. K. Gross, and E. E. Klingele, 1989, What's moving at Yellowstone! The 1987 Crustal deformation survey from GPS, leveling, precision gravity and trilateration, Eos, American Geophysical Union, v.. 70, p. 113-125.

    Trimble, A. B. and R. B. Smith, 1975, Seismicity and contemporary tectonics of the Hebgen Lake-Yellowstone Park region,  Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 80, 5, p. 733-741.

    Vasco, D. W., R. Smith and C. Taylor, 1990, Inversion of Yellowstone vertical displacements and gravity changes, 1923 to 1975-1977 to 1986, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, p. 19839-19856.

    Waite, G. R. and R. B. Smith, 2002, Seismic evidence for fluid migration accompanying subsidence of the Yellowstone Caldera, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, n/. B9, 2177, 10.1029/2001JB000586.

    Waite, G.P. and R. B. Smith, 2004, Seismotectonics and stress field of the Yellowstone volcanic plateau from earthquake first-motions and other indicators, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109, B02301, doi:10.1029/2003JB002675.

    Wicks, C., Thatcher, W. and Dzurisin, D, 1998, Migration of fluids beneath Yellowstone Caldera inferred from satellite radar interferometry, Science, v. 282, pp. 458-462.

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

     

    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.

    Christiansen, R.L., and Hutchinson, R.A., 1987, Rhyolite-basalt volcanism of the Yellowstone Plateau and hydrothermal activity of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide, v. 2, p. 165-172.

    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., Hydrothermal processes related to movement of fluid from plastic into brittle rock in the magmatic-epithermal environment: Economic Geolology, v. 94, p. 1193-1212, 1999.

    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.

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