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Crustal Structure And Thickness Along The Yellowstone Hot Spot Track: Evidence For Lower Crustal Outflow From Beneath The Eastern Snake River Plain, H. Yuan, Ken Dueker, J. Stachnik
Crustal Structure And Thickness Along The Yellowstone Hot Spot Track: Evidence For Lower Crustal Outflow From Beneath The Eastern Snake River Plain, H. Yuan, Ken Dueker, J. Stachnik
Ken Dueker
Receiver functions from seismic stations about the Yellowstone hot spot track are migrated to depth using a Vp/Vs map constructed from stacking of the direct and free surface Moho reverberations (i.e., H-K analysis) and a shear velocity tomogram constructed from surface wave measurements. The thickest crust (48-54 km) resides in the Wyoming province beneath the sampled Laramide age blocks, and the thinnest crust (32-37 km) resides in the Montana Basin and Range province. The eastern Snake River Plain (ESRP) crust is thickest (47 km) at its NE end beneath the young calderas and thinnest (40 km) at its SW end …