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Project Acronym: HOTSPOT | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5036

2022
Wetzel K , Stanley J .
Linking exhumation, paleo-relief, and rift formation to magmatic processes in the western Snake River Plain, Idaho, using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology.
Geosphere. 2022 ; 18 (2): 885-909. [doi][doi]
2021
Allstädt F , Koutsodendris A , Appel E , Rösler W , Reichgelt T , Kaboth-Bahr S , Prokopenko A , Pross J .
Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho.
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 2021 ; 101 (1): 177-195. [doi][doi]
2020
Allstädt F , Appel E , Rösler W , Prokopenko A , Neumann U , Wenzel T , Pross J .
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. 2020 ; 222 (2): 754-768. [doi][doi]
2019
Assis Fernandes V , Hopp J , Schwarz W , Fritz J , Trieloff M , Povenmire H .
40Ar-39Ar step heating ages of North American tektites and of impact melt rock samples from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2019 ; 255 289-308. [doi][doi]
Lachmar T , Freeman T , Kessler J , Batir J , Evans J , Nielson D , Shervais J , Chen X , Blackwell D .
Evaluation of the geothermal potential of the western Snake River Plain based on a deep corehole on the Mountain Home AFB near Mountain Home, Idaho.
Geothermal Energy. 2019 ; 7 (1): [doi][doi]
Potter KE , Champion DE , Duncan RA , Shervais JW .
Volcanic stratigraphy and age model of the Kimama deep borehole (Project Hotspot): Evidence for 5.8 million years of continuous basalt volcanism, central Snake River Plain, Idaho.
Geosphere. 2019 ; 15 (3): 736 – 758. [doi][doi]
2018
Gallant E , Richardson J , Connor C , Wetmore P , Connor L .
A new approach to probabilistic lava flow hazard assessments, applied to the Idaho National Laboratory, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA.
Geology. 2018 ; 46 (10): 895-898. [doi][doi]
Potter K , Shervais J , Christiansen E , Vetter S .
Evidence for cyclical fractional crystallization, recharge, and assimilation in basalts of the kimama drill core, central snake river plain, idaho: 5.5-million-years of petrogenesis in a mid-crustal sill complex.
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2018 ; 6 [doi][doi]
Colón D , Bindeman I , Wotzlaw J , Christiansen E , Stern R .
Origins and evolution of rhyolitic magmas in the central snake river plain: Insights from coupled high-precision geochronology, oxygen isotope, and hafnium isotope analyses of zircon.
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 2018 ; 173 (2): 1-18. [doi][doi]
Hughes S , Kobs Nawotniak S , Sears D , Borg C , Garry W , Christiansen E , Haberle C , Lim D , Heldmann J .
Phreatic explosions during basaltic fissure eruptions: Kings Bowl lava field, Snake River Plain, USA.
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 2018 ; 351 89-104. [doi][doi]
2017
Wilke S , Holtz F , Neave D , Almeev R .
The effect of anorthite content and water on quartz-feldspar cotectic compositions in the rhyolitic system and implications for geobarometry.
Journal of Petrology. 2017 ; 58 (4): 789-818. [doi][doi]
Lachmar T , Freeman T , Sant C , Walker J , Batir J , Shervais J , Evans J , Nielson D , Blackwell D .
Effect of an 860-m thick, cold, freshwater aquifer on geothermal potential along the axis of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho.
Geothermal Energy. 2017 ; 5 (1): [doi][doi]
Kessler J , Bradbury K , Evans J , Pulsipher M , Shervais J , Rowe F , Varriale J .
Geology and in situ stress of the MH-2 borehole, Idaho, USA: Insights into western Snake River Plain structure from geothermal exploration drilling.
Lithosphere. 2017 ; 9 (3): 476 – 498. [doi][doi]
2016
Knott T , Branney M , Reichow M , Finn D , Coe R , Storey M , Barfod D , McCurry M .
Mid-Miocene record of large-scale Snake River-type explosive volcanism and associated subsidence on the Yellowstone hotspot track: The Cassia Formation of Idaho, USA.
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 2016 ; 128 (7): 1121-1146. [doi][doi]
Walker J , Wheeler J .
Short Note. the smectite to corrensite transition: X-ray diffraction results from the MH-2B core, western Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA.
Clay Minerals. 2016 ; 51 (4): 691-696. [doi][doi]
Moody A , Fairley J , Plummer M .
Stochastic exploration and the geologic context of enhanced geothermal system viability on the Snake River Plain, Idaho.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 2016 ; 519 115-136. [doi][doi]
McLing T , Smith R , Smith R , Blackwell D , Roback R , Sondrup A .
Wellbore and groundwater temperature distribution eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Implications for groundwater flow and geothermal potential.
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 2016 ; 320 144-155. [doi][doi]
2015
Wilke S , Klahn C , Bolte T , Almeev R , Holtz F .
Experimental investigation of the effect of Ca, Fe and Ti on cotectic compositions of the rhyolitic system.
European Journal of Mineralogy. 2015 03 ; 27 (2): 147-159. [doi][doi]
Wiesmaier S , Morgavi D , Renggli C , Perugini D , De Campos C , Hess K , Ertel-Ingrisch W , Lavallée Y , Dingwell D .
Magma mixing enhanced by bubble segregation.
Solid Earth. 2015 ; 6 (3): 1007-1023. [doi][doi]
Liberty L , Shervais J .
Seismic imaging through the volcanic rocks of the Snake River Plain: Insights from Project Hotspot.
Geophysical Prospecting. 2015 ; 63 (4): 919-936. [doi][doi]
Shervais J , Glen J , Liberty L , Dobson P , Gasperikova E , Sonnenthal E , Visser C , Nielson D , Garg S , Evans J , Siler D , Deangelo J , Athens N , Burns E .
Snake river plain play fairway analysis - Phase 1 report.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2015 ; 39 761-769.
Bolte T , Holtz F , Almeev R , Nash B .
The Blacktail Creek Tuff: an analytical and experimental study of rhyolites from the Heise volcanic field, Yellowstone hotspot system.
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 2015 ; 169 (2): [doi][doi]
2014
Shervais JW , Evans JP , Liberty LM , Blackwell DD .
The snake geothermal drilling project. Innovative approaches to geothermal exploration.
Report to Department of Energy Geothermal Technology Office. 2014 Feb. ; [doi][doi]
Jean M , Hanan B , Shervais J .
Yellowstone hotspot-continental lithosphere interaction.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2014 ; 389 119-131. [doi][doi]
Shervais J , Evans J , Christiansen E , Prokopenko A .
Drilling into the track of the yellowstone hot spot.
Eos. 2014 ; 95 (10): 85-86. [doi][doi]
Anders M , Rodgers D , Hemming S , Saltzman J , Divenere V , Hagstrum J , Embree G , Walter R .
A fixed sublithospheric source for the late Neogene track of the Yellowstone hotspot: Implications of the Heise and Picabo volcanic fields.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2014 ; 119 (4): 2871-2906. [doi][doi]
2013
Shervais JW , Nielson D , Evans JP , Christiansen EH , Morgan L , Pat Shanks W , Prokopenko AA , Lachmar T , Liberty LM , Blackwell DD , Glen JM , Champion D , Potter KE , Kessler JA .
First results from HOTSPOT: The Snake River plain scientific drilling project, Idaho, U.S.A..
Scientific Drilling. 2013 ; (15): 36 – 45. [doi][doi]
Jean M , Shervais J , Champion D , Vetter S .
Geochemical and paleomagnetic variations in basalts from the wendell regional aquifer systems analysis (RASA) drill core: Evidence for magma recharge and assimilation-fractional crystallization from the central snake river plain, Idaho.
Geosphere. 2013 ; 9 (5): 1319-1335. [doi][doi]
Konstantinou A , Valley J , Strickland A , Miller E , Fisher C , Vervoort J , Wooden J .
Geochemistry and geochronology of the jim sage volcanic suite, southern idaho: Implications for snake river plain magmatism and its role in the history of basin and range extension.
Geosphere. 2013 ; 9 (6): 1681-1703. [doi][doi]
Morgavi D , Perugini D , De Campos C , Ertl-Ingrisch W , Lavallée Y , Morgan L , Dingwell D .
Interactions between rhyolitic and basaltic melts unraveled by chaotic mixing experiments.
Chemical Geology. 2013 ; 346 119-212. [doi][doi]
Morgavi D , Perugini D , De Campos C , Ertel-Ingrisch W , Dingwell D .
Morphochemistry of patterns produced by mixing of rhyolitic and basaltic melts.
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 2013 ; 253 87-96. [doi][doi]
Perugini D , De Campos C , Dingwell D , Dorfman A .
Relaxation of concentration variance: A new tool to measure chemical element mobility during mixing of magmas.
Chemical Geology. 2013 ; 335 8-23. [doi][doi]
Morgavi D , Perugini D , Campos C , Ertel-Ingrisch W , Dingwell D .
Time evolution of chemical exchanges during mixing of rhyolitic and basaltic melts.
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 2013 ; 166 (2): 615-638. [doi][doi]
2012
Perugini D , De Campos C , Ertel-Ingrisch W , Dingwell D .
The space and time complexity of chaotic mixing of silicate melts: Implications for igneous petrology.
Lithos. 2012 ; 155 326-340. [doi][doi]
Liberty L , Kessler J , Kofman R , Bishop R , Shervais J , Evans J , Champion D .
The ICDP Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project: Preliminary overview of borehole geophysics.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2012 ; 36 2 1017-1022.
Shervais JW , Nielson D , Evans JP , Lachmar T , Christiansen EH , Morgan L , Shanks WCP , Delahunty C , Liberty LM , Blackwell DD , Glen JM , Kessler JA , Potter KE , Jean MM , Sant CJ , Freeman TG .
Hotspot: The Snake River geothermal drilling project - Initial report.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2012 ; 36 2 767 – 772.
Almeev R , Bolte T , Nash B , Holtz F , Erdmann M , Cathey H .
High-temperature, low-H 2O 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. 2012 ; 53 (9): 1837-1866. [doi][doi]
Nielson D , Delahunty C , Shervais J .
Geothermal systems in the Snake River Plain, Idaho, characterizedby the Hotspot project.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2012 ; 36 1 727-730.
Breckenridge R , Nielson D , Shervais J , Wood T .
Exploration and resource assessment at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, using an integrated team approach.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2012 ; 36 1 615-619.
Delahunty C , Nielson DL , Shervais JW .
Deep core drilling of three slim geothermal holes, Snake River Plains, Idaho.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2012 ; 36 1 641 – 647.
Lachmar T , Freeman T , Wood T , Shervais J , Nielson D .
Chemistry and thermometry of geothermal water from Mountain Home test well MH-2B S: Preliminary results.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2012 ; 36 1 689-692.
2011
Sant C , Shervais J .
Project Hotspot: Preliminary analysis of secondary mineralization in basaltic core, Central Snake River Plain.
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council. 2011 ; 35 2 987-989.
2009
Shervais J , Vetter S .
High-K alkali basalts of the Western Snake River Plain (Idaho): Abrupt transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkaline plume-derived basalts.
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 2009 ; 188 (1-3): 141-152. [doi][doi]
2008
Shervais J , Hanan B .
Lithospheric topography, tilted plumes, and the track of the Snake River-Yellowstone hot spot.
Tectonics. 2008 ; 27 (5): [doi][doi]
Botcharnikov R , Almeev R , Koepke J , Holtz F .
Phase relations and liquid lines of descent in hydrous ferrobasalt - Implications for the skaergaard intrusion and Columbia river flood basalts.
Journal of Petrology. 2008 ; 49 (9): 1687-1727. [doi][doi]
Hanan B , Shervais J , Vetter S .
Yellowstone plume-continental lithosphere interaction beneath the Snake River Plain.
Geology. 2008 ; 36 (1): 51-54. [doi][doi]
2006
Shervais JW , Branney MJ , Geist DJ , Hanan BB , Hughes S , Prokopenko AA , Williams DF .
HOTSPOT: The snake river scientific drilling project-tracking the yellowstone hotspot through space and time.
Scientific Drilling. 2006 ; 1 (3): 56 – 57. [doi][doi]
Wicks C , Thatcher W , Dzurisin D , Svarc J .
Uplift, thermal unrest and magma intrusion at Yellowstone caldera.
Nature. 2006 ; 440 (7080): 72-75. [doi][doi]
2005
Shervais J , Kauffman J , Gillerman V , Othberg K , Vetter S , Hobson R , Zarnetske M , Cooke M , Matthews S , Hanan B .
Basaltic volcanism of the central and western Snake River Plain: A guide to field relations between Twin Falls and Mountain Home, Idaho.
GSA Field Guides. 2005 ; 6 27-52. [doi][doi]
2002
Shervais JW , Shroff G , Vetter SK , Matthews S , Hanan BB , McGee JJ , Bonnichsen B , White C , McCurry M .
Origin and evolution of the western Snake River Plain: Implications from stratigraphy, faulting, and the geochemistry of basalts near Mountain Home, Idaho.
Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province. 2002 ; 30 343--361.

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