Sponsor
Science Foundation grant EAR-1220676 to M.J. Streck; and the Geological Society of America and internal Portland State University graduate student research grants to V.M. Swenton.
Published In
GSA Bulletin
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2022
Subjects
Pumice -- Eastern Oregon -- Composition, Magmas, Volcanic ash tuff etc -- Eastern Oregon
Abstract
Miocene rhyolitic volcanism of eastern Oregon, USA, can be divided into two main episodes. Mantle plume upwelling is thought to have generated Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) lavas and coeval >16.5−15 Ma silicic volcanism trending north−south from northeast Oregon to northern Nevada. Rhyolite volcanism of the 12−0 Ma High Lava Plains province has been ascribed to either buoyancy-driven westward plume spreading or to slab rollback and mantle convection spanning from southeast Oregon to Newberry Volcano to the west. The apparent ca. 15−12 Ma eruptive hiatus suggests that rhyolites of these provinces were a product of separate processes, yet this gap was based on incomplete data. The lack of data on ∼33 of the total ∼50 rhyolitic eruptive centers in the area where the two provinces overlap (117−119°W, 43−44°N) yields only tenuous relationships between these two provinces.
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DOI
10.1130/B36346.1
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/38776
Citation Details
Swenton, V. M., Streck, M. J., Miggins, D. P., & McIntosh, W. C. (2022). Filling critical gaps in the space-time record of High Lava Plains and co-Columbia River Basalt Group rhyolite volcanism. GSA Bulletin.