[HOTSPOT] HOTSPOT - The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project - Tracking the Yellowstone Plume Through Space and Time
ICDP-Topics:
Climate & Ecosystems
Year of Application: 2010
Expedition ID: 5036
Current Status: completed
Master Data
Prof. Dr. Donald Bruce Dingwell (First-PI)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Koepke (First-PI)
Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess (First-PI)
Prof. Dr. Francois Holtz (PI)
Prof. Dr. Agnes Kontny (PI)
Dr. Alexander Prokopenko (PI)
Prof. Dr. Harald Behrens (PI)
Dr. Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos (PI)
Prof. Dr. Joerg Erzinger (PI)
Dr. Oliver Namur (PI)
Dr. Renat Almeev (PI)
Jochem Kück (OSG)
Ronald Conze (OSG)
Dr. Ulrich Harms (OSG)
Dr. Sebastian Wiesmaier (Scientific Participant)
Prof. Dr. Christina Maria Pinheiro de Campos (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Daniele Morgavi (Scientific Participant)
Frederik Allstädt (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Sören Wilke (Scientific Participant)
Marius Stranghörner (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Stefan Dultz (Scientific Participant)
Dominik Mock (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Bernard Charlier (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Meng Wang (Scientific Participant)
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Geologisches
Alter: pliocene to pleistocene
Latitude: 42°56'18''N
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Longitude: 115°21'18''W
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Description
Mantle plumes are thought to play a crucial role in the Earth’s thermal and tectonic evolution. They have long been implicated in the rifting and breakup of continents, and plume-derived melts play a significant role in the creation and modification of sub-continental mantle lithosphere. Much of our understanding of mantle plumes comes from plume tracks in oceanic lithosphere, but oceanic lithosphere is recycled back into the mantle by subduction, so if we are to understand plume-related volcanism prior to 200 Ma, we must learn how plume-derived magmas interact with continental lithosphere, and how this interaction effects the chemical and isotopic composition of lavas that erupt on the surface. Hotspot volcanism in oceanic lithosphere has been the subject of intense recent and ongoing studies (HSDP, IODP). These studies will provide base-line information about where mantle plumes originate, how they behave, and the volcanic products of these processes. However, hotspot volcanism within continental lithosphere has not been studied in such detail, and is potentially more complex. Most researchers believe that Yellowstone is the world’s best example of a mantle plume beneath continental crust. The Snake River Plain volcanic province, which represents the track of the Yellowstone plume, consists of basalts that are compositionally similar to ocean island basalts and rhyolites caldera complexes that herald the onset of plume-related volcanism. The Snake River Plain preserves a record of volcanic activity that spans over 12 Ma and is still active today (the last volcanic eruption was circa 2 ka BP). Thus, the Snake River Plain is unique and represents the world-class example of active intra-continental plume volcanism. Further, because it is young and tectonically undisturbed, the complete record of volcanic activity can only be sampled by drilling. This proposal seeks approval to pursue funding for an comprehensive, inter-disciplinary, intermediate-depth drilling scientific program in the Snake River Plain. This project was the subject of a 4-day ICDP-funded workshop in May 2006 that focused on the scientific basis for a formal drilling proposal, site selection and site selection criteria, and the logistics of coordinating this project. We envisage a transect along the axis of the SRP that will target the origin and evolution of plume-related volcanism in both space and time. Our plan is to leverage existing drill core and cuttings minimize costs and maximize scientific return. We propose drilling two new core holes to complete this transect: (1) 2.0-2.5 km hole in the central plain between Twin Falls and the INL site and (2) 1.5-2.0 km hole in the western SRP that penetrates the entire section of Miocene to Pliocene basalt which underlies Pliocene-Pleistocene lake sediments, and recovers rhyolite or basement from underneath. These drill holes will complement geophysical studies of continental dynamics planned by Earthscope, as well as current studies centered on Yellowstone.
Related Publications
Allstädt, Frederik (2022). "Into the icehouse: A palynological perspective on Olio-Pleistocene climate change in the Northern Hemisphere based on archives from Central Asia, North America and southern Europe" Dissertation
Allstädt, F. J., Koutsodendris, A., Appel, E., Rösler, W., Reichgelt, T., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Prokopenko, A. A., Pross, J. (2021). "Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho" Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101 p177-195
Allstädt, F.J., Appel, E., Rösler, W., Prokopenko, A.A., Neumann, U., Wenzel, T., Pross, J. (2020). " Downward remagnetization of a ∼74 m thick zone in lake sediments from palaeo-Lake Idaho (NW United States) – Locating the Gauss/Matuyama geomagnetic boundary within a dual-polarity zone" Geophysical Journal International 222 (2) p754-768
Zhang C., Li X., Almeev R.R., Horn I., Behrens H., Holtz F. (2020). " Ti-in-quartz thermobarometry and TiO2 solubility in rhyolitic melts: New experiments and parametrization" Earth and Planetary Science Letters 538 p116213
Wilke, Sören, Holtz, François, Neave, David A., Almeev, Renat (2017). "The Effect of Anorthite Content and Water on Quartz–Feldspar Cotectic Compositions in the Rhyolitic System and Implications for Geobarometry" Journal of Petrology 58 p789-818
Dultz, Stefan, Behrens, Harald, Helsch, Gundula, Deubener, Joachim (2016). "Electrolyte effects on surface chemistry of basaltic glass in the initial stages of dissolution" Chemical Geology 426 p71-84
De Campos, Cristina P. (2015). "Chaotic Flow Patterns from a Deep Plutonic Environment: a Case Study on Natural Magma Mixing" Pure and Applied Geophysics 172 p1815-1833
Lavallée,Yan, Wadsworth,Fabian B., Vasseur,Jérémie, Russell,James K., Andrews,Graham D. M., Hess,Kai-Uwe, von Aulock,Felix W., Kendrick,Jackie E., Tuffen,Hugh, Biggin,Andrew J., Dingwell,Donald B. (2015). "Eruption and emplacement timescales of ignimbrite super-eruptions from thermo-kinetics of glass shards" Frontiers in Earth Science 3
Wilke, Sören, Klahn, Carolin, Bolte, Torsten, Almeev, Renat, Holtz, François (2015). "Experimental investigation of the effect of Ca, Fe and Ti on cotectic compositions of the rhyolitic system" European Journal of Mineralogy 27 p147-159
Wiesmaier, S., Morgavi, D., Renggli, C. J., Perugini, D., De Campos, C. P., Hess, K. U., Ertel-Ingrisch, W., Lavallée, Y., Dingwell, D. B. (2015). "Magma mixing enhanced by bubble segregation" Solid Earth 6 p1007-1023
Bolte, Torsten, Holtz, Francois, Almeev, Renat, Nash, Barbara (2015). "The Blacktail Creek Tuff: an analytical and experimental study of rhyolites from the Heise volcanic field, Yellowstone hotspot system" Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology p15
Dultz, Stefan, Boy, Jens, Dupont, Christoph, Halisch, Matthias, Behrens, Harald, Welsch, Anna-Maria, Erdmann, Martin, Cramm, Sandra, Helsch, Gundula, Deubener, Joachim (2014). "Alteration of a Submarine Basaltic Glass under Environmental Conditions Conducive for Microorganisms: Growth Patterns of the Microbial Community and Mechanism of Palagonite Formation" Geomicrobiology Journal p813-834
Morgavi, Daniele (2014). "Magma Mixing Interaction Between Rhyolitic and Basaltic Melt" Dissertation p121
Morgavi, Daniele, Perugini, Diego, De Campos, Cristina P., Ertl-Ingrisch, Werner, Lavallée, Yan, Morgan, Lisa, Dingwell, Donald B. (2013). "Interactions between rhyolitic and basaltic melts unraveled by chaotic mixing experiments" Chemical Geology 346 p199-212
Morgavi, Daniele, Perugini, Diego, De Campos, Cristina P., Ertel-Ingrisch, Werner, Dingwell, Donald B. (2013). "Morphochemistry of patterns produced by mixing of rhyolitic and basaltic melts" Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 253 p87-96
Perugini, D., De Campos, C. P., Dingwell, D. B., Dorfman, A. (2013). "Relaxation of concentration variance: A new tool to measure chemical element mobility during mixing of magmas" Chemical Geology 335 p8-23
Morgavi, Daniele, Perugini, Diego, De Campos, Cristina P., Ertel-Ingrisch, Werner, Dingwell, Donald B. (2013). "Time evolution of chemical exchanges during mixing of rhyolitic and basaltic melts" Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 166 p615-638
Almeev, Renat R., Bolte, Torsten, Nash, Barbara P., Holtz, François, Erdmann, Martin, Cathey, Henrietta E. (2012). "High-temperature, low-H2O Silicic Magmas of the Yellowstone Hotspot: an Experimental Study of Rhyolite from the Bruneau–Jarbidge Eruptive Center, Central Snake River Plain, USA" Journal of Petrology p1837-1866
Perugini, D., De Campos, C. P., Ertel-Ingrisch, W., Dingwell, D. B. (2012). "The space and time complexity of chaotic mixing of silicate melts: Implications for igneous petrology" Lithos 155 p326-340
De Campos, Cristina P., Perugini, Diego, Ertel-Ingrisch, Werner, Dingwell, Donald B., Poli, Giampiero (2011). "Enhancement of magma mixing efficiency by chaotic dynamics: an experimental study" Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 161 p863-881
Botcharnikov, R. E., Almeev, R. R., Koepke, J., Holtz, F. (2008). "Phase Relations and Liquid Lines of Descent in Hydrous Ferrobasalt—Implications for the Skaergaard Intrusion and Columbia River Flood Basalts" Journal of Petrology 49 p1687-1727