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    • ….Hot Spot Bibliography

    From Our Neighbors At GOSA

    Personal Communication:

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    Pierce, Kenneth L., and Morgan, Lisa 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 Memoir 179, p. 1-53.

    Pierce, Kenneth L., Morgan, Lisa A., and Saltus, R.W., 2004, Yellowstone plume head: Postulated relations to the Vancouver slab, continental boundaries, and climate, in Bonnichsen, B., White, C.M., and McCurry, Michael, eds., Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin 30, p. 5-33.

    Other papers of interest related to Yellowstone, the hot spot, and hydrothermal activity in Yellowston:

    Morgan, L.A., and McIntosh, W.C., 2005, 40Ar/39Ar Ages of Silicic Volcanic Rocks in the Heise Volcanic Field, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Timing of Volcanism and Tectonism, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, no. 3/4, p. 288-306.

    Lowenstern, Jacob B., Christiansen, Robert L., Smith, Robert B., Morgan, Lisa A., and Heasler, Henry, 2005, Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions­What’s in Yellowstone’s Future?, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005-3024, 2005, 6 p.

    Morgan, Lisa A. and Shanks, W.C. Pat III, 2005, Influences of rhyolitic lava flows on hydrothermal processes in Yellowstone Lake and on the Yellowstone Plateau, in William P. Inskeep and Timothy R. McDermott (eds.), Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park, p. 31-52.

    Shanks, W.C. Pat, Morgan, Lisa A., Balistrieri, Laurie A., and Alt, Jeffrey C., 2005, Hydrothermal vents, siliceous hydrothermal deposits, and hydrothermally altered sediments in Yellowstone Lake, in William P. Inskeep and Timothy R. McDermott (eds.), Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park, p. 53-72.

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

    Morgan, Lisa 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., 2003, 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.

    Other papers soon to be published are:

    Pierce, K.L. Despain, D., Morgan, Lisa A., and Good, J., 2005, Effects of Hotspot-related Volcanism, Faulting, and Uplift on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Human Geography, in Morgan, L.A. (ed.), Integrated Geoscience Studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area: Volcanic, Tectonic, and Hydrothermal Processes in the Yellowstone Geoecosystem, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1717.

    Morgan, Lisa A., Shanks, W.C. Lovalvo, D., Lee, G., Pierce, K.L., Webring, M. Stephenson, W.J., Johnson, S.Y., Finn, C.A., Harlan, 2005, The Floor of Yellowstone Lake is Anything but Quiet: New Discoveries from High-Resolution Sonar Imaging, Seismic Reflection Profiling, and Submersible Studies, in Morgan, Lisa A., (ed.), Integrated Geoscience Studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area: Volcanic, Tectonic, and Hydrothermal Processes in the Yellowstone Geoecosystem, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1717.

    Shanks, W. C. III, Alt, J., and Morgan, Lisa A., 2005, Geochemistry of sublacustrine hydrothermal deposits in Yellowstone Lake: hydrothermal reactions, stable isotope systematics, sinter deposition, and spire growth, in Morgan, Lisa A. (ed.), Integrated Geoscience Studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area: Volcanic, Tectonic, and Hydrothermal Processes in the Yellowstone Geoecosystem, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1717.

    Saunders, A.D., Jones, S.M., Morgan, Lisa A., Pierce, K.L., Widdowson, M., and Xu, Y., 2006, Regional uplift associated with continental large igneous provinces: The roles of mantle plumes and the lithosphere, in Chemical Geology

    Morgan, Lisa A., Shanks, W.C. Pat, and Pierce, Kenneth L., in press, Bathymetry, Geology, and Selected Perspective Views of the Floor of Yellowstone Lake, in U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map Series (tba), 2 plates.