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Open-File Report 90-415 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE TRACK OF THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT: VOLCANISM, FAULTING, AND UPLIFT by Kenneth L. Pierce1 and Lisa A. Morgan1 Open-File Report 90-415 This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards. Copies of this report are available from: U.S. Geological Survey Office of Open File Services, MS 517 Box 25046, Federal Center Denver CO, 80225 1U.S. Geological Survey, MS 913, Box 25046, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225. Table of Contents ABSTRACT! 1 INTRODUCTION 2 VOLCANIC TRACK OF THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT 4 Hotspot Track 0-10 Ma 4 Western Snake River Plain and Hotspot Track 5 NEOTECTONIC CLASSIFICATION OF FAULTING 5 Belt II, Defined By Major Holocene Faults 6 Teton Fault History 6 Belt II, Southern Arm 7 Belt II, Western Arm 7 Belt I, Lesser and Reactivated Faults Beyond Belt II 8 Belt I, Southern Arm 8 Belt I, Western Arm 8 Belt III, Defined By Major late Pleistocene Faults 9 Belt III, Southern Arm 9 Belt III, Western Arm 10 Belt IV, Defined by Major Tertiary Faults 10 NEOTECTONIC DOMAINS EMANATING FROM THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT 10 The Present Cycle 10 Belt IV and Older Cycles of Faulting 11 Neotectonic Fault Belts and Historic Seismicity 12 ALTITUDE AND THE HOTSPOT TRACK 12 Possible Scales to Consider 12 Yellowstone Crescent Of High Terrain 13 Altitude Changes North of the Snake River Plain 13 Rugged Mountains of Readily Erodible Rocks 14 Pleistocene Glacier-Length Ratios and Altitude Changes 15 Big Horn Basin Region 16 Unidirectional Stream Migrations (Displacements) 16 Convergent/Divergent Terraces 16 Uplifted(?) Calcic Soils, Rock Creek 17 Areas more than 250 km from the hotspot track 17 Problems Relating Regional Uplift to the Yellowstone Hotspot 17 DISCUSSION 18 Alternative Models and their Problems 19 Eastward Propagating Rift 19 Crustal Flaws and the Origin of the SRP-YP Province 20 Transform Boundary Zone Origin for the SRP 20 A Meteorite Impact Origin for the SRP-YP Province 21 A Two-Phase, Mantle Plume Model For the SRP-YP Region 22 The Two Phase Model 22 Evidence from Volcanism and Rifting 23 Evidence from Faulting and Uplift 25 Other Discussion Of Extensional Faulting 26 Relation Between the Yellowstone Hotspot and Basin and Range Deformation 27 CONCLUSIONS 28 REFERENCES CITED 30 Plate 1 caption 39 Start of captions for figures 1-23 40 Start of tables (1, 2, and3) 45 surrounding terrain, is about 350 km across at THE TRACK OF THE YELLOWSTONE Yellowstone, wraps around Yellowstone like a bow HOTSPOT: VOLCANISM, FAULTING, wave, and has arms that extend 400 km southerly and AND UPLIFT westerly from its apex, (2) readily erodible rocks forming young, high mountains in parts of this Kenneth L. Pierce and Lisa A. Morgan crescent, (3) geodetic surveys and paleotopographic reconstructions that indicate young uplift near the axis ABSTRACT* of the Yellowstone crescent, (4) on the outer slope of this crescent, glaciers during the last glaciation were The track of the Yellowstone hotspot is anomalously long compared with those of the represented by a systematic NE-trending linear belt of preceding glaciation, suggesting uplift during the silicic, caldera-forming volcanism that arrived at intervening interglaciation, and (5) lateral migration of Yellowstone 2 Ma, was near American Falls, Idaho, streams, apparent tilting of stream terraces away from about 10 Ma, and started about 16 Ma near the Yellowstone, and, for increasingly younger terrace Nevada-Oregon-Idaho border. From 10-2 Ma, silicic pairs, migration away from Yellowstone of their volcanism migrated N 54° E towards Yellowstone at divergent-convergent inflection point. about 3 cm/yr, leaving in its wake the eastern Snake We conclude that the neotectonic fault belts and River Plain (SRP). The eastern SRP is a linear, the Yellowstone crescent of high terrain reflect heating mountain-bounded, 75-km-wide trench almost entirely that has migrated to distances as much as 200 km from floored by calderas that are thinly covered by basalt the eastern SRP in 10 m.y, and that the only flows. From 16-10 Ma, particularly 16-14 Ma, mechanism for such heat transport is flow of hot volcanism was widely dispersed around the inferred material within the asthenosphere, most likely by a hotspot track in a region that now forms a moderately thermal mantle plume rising to the base of the high volcanic plateau. The current hotspot position at lithosphere and flowing outward horizontally for at Yellowstone is spatially related to active faulting and least such distances. uplift. The change in the volcanic track between 16-10 Basin-and-range faults in the Yellowstone-SRP Ma and 10-2 Ma is readily explained by first the head region are classified into six types based on both (300 km diameter) and then the chimney (10-20 km recency of offset and height of the associated bedrock across) phases of a thermal mantle plume rising to the escarpment. The distribution of these fault types base of the SW-moving North American plate. About permits definition of three adjoining belts and a 16 Ma, the bulbous plume head intercepted and pattern of waxing, culminating, and waning activity. mushroomed out at the base of the lithosphere, The central belt, Belt II, is the most active and is resulting in widespread magmatism and tectonism characterized by faults active since 15 ka on range centered near the common borders of Nevada, fronts >700 m high. Belt II has two arms forming a Oregon, and Idaho. Starting about 10 Ma near "V" that joins at Yellowstone: one arm of Belt II trends American Falls and progressing to Yellowstone, the south to the Wasatch front; the other arm trends west chimney penetrated through its less active head and and includes the sites of the 1959 Hebgen Lake and spread outward at the base of the lithosphere, adding 1983 Borah Peak earthquakes. Fault Belt I is farthest basaltic magma and heat to the overriding SW-moving away from the SRP and contains relatively new and lithospheric plate, and leaving in its "wake" the eastern- reactivated faults that have not produced new bedrock SRP-Yellowstone track of calderas, and forming, escarpments higher than 200 m during the present ahead and outward from this track, the outward- episode of faulting. Belt III is the innermost active moving belts of active faulting and uplift. belt near the SRP. It contains faults that have moved We favor a mantle plume explanation for the since 15-120 ka and which have been active long hotspot track and associated tectonism and find enough to produce range fronts more than 500 m high. problems with competing hypotheses that include the A belt with inactive faults occurs only south of the SRP following: (1) for a rift origin, faulting and extension and contains late Tertiary range-front faults that directions are at nearly right angles to that appropriate experienced high rates of activity coincident with for a rift, (2) for a transform origin, geologic evidence hotspot volcanism on the adjacent SRP. Comparison requires neither a crustal flaw nor differential of activity based on these belts with that defined by extension across the eastern SRP, and volcanic modern seismicity is remarkably similar but differs in alignments on the SRP do not indicate a right-lateral detail. shear across the SRP. The southern Oregon rhyolite Uplift migrating outward from the hotspot track zone is not analogous to the eastern SRP and is suggested by (1) the Yellowstone crescent of high therefore does not disprove formation of the terrain that is about 0.5 km higher than the Yellowstone hotspot track by a mantle plume. The postulated rise of a mantle-plume head into the mantle lithosphere about 16 Ma corresponds in both time and space with the following geologic * Approved by the Director, 6/27/90. This report intended for changes: (1) the start of the present pattern of basin- publication by the Geological Society of America in a volume range extension, (2) intrusion of basalt and rhyolite in honor of Steve Oriel. along the 1,100-km-long Nevada-Oregon rift zone, (3) modifying a passive lithosphere (Christiansen and the main phases of flood basalt volcanism of the McKee, 1978; Leeman, 1982; Hamilton, 1989). Our Columbia River and Oregon plateaus, and (4) a acceptance of the mantle plume hypothesis comes change from calc-alkaline volcanism of intermediate to after serious consideration of these models. silicic composition to basaltic and bimodal A hotspot/mantle plume mechanism, particularly rhyolite/basalt volcanism. the start of a hotspot track with a large-diameter plume head, has been rarely invoked in North INTRODUCTION American geology. On a global scale, the existence and importance of hotspots and mantle plumes have The track of the Yellowstone hotspot is defined gained credibility through their successful application by the time-transgressive centers of caldera-forming to such topics as plate tectonics, flood basalts volcanism which since 16 Ma migrated 700 km associated with rifts, volcanic hotspot island chains and northeastward to Yellowstone (Plate 1; Fig. 1). We associated swells, and anomalies in the geoid (see compare the progression of silicic volcanism with the Bercovici and others, 1989; Sleep, 1990; Wilson, 1990). timing of late Cenozoic faulting and uplift in nearby J. Tuzo Wilson (1963) proposed that the Hawaiian areas and suggest that a V-shaped pattern of Islands, as well as other volcanic island chains, are deformation is now centered on Yellowstone. We use formed by a stationary heat source located beneath the the term "hotspot" to nongenetically describe this moving lithosphere- a hotspot. Morgan (1973) argued progression of silicic volcanism, although we favor its that hotspots were anchored by deep mantle plumes formation by a mantle plume.
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