Basalt Emergent Volcanoes and Maars, Sinker Butte — Snake River Canyon, Idaho

Brittany Brand

Basalt Emergent Volcanoes and Maars, Sinker Butte — Snake River Canyon, Idaho

Geosciences Department

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Abstract

This field trip offers the opportunity to explore the spectacular, well-exposed, hydrovolcanic tuff beds at Sinker Butte, a Pleistocene volcano that erupted underneath a freshwater lake in the western Snake River Plain (WSRP). The products of basaltic hydrovolcanism (maars, tuff rings, and tuff cones) are second only to scoria cones as the most abundant volcanic landforms on Earth (Cas and Wright, 1988); however, the mechanics of emplacement of these deposits remain poorly understood.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Geological Field Trips in Southern Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and Northern Nevada
State	Published - 2004

EGS Disciplines

Geology
Volcanology

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Basalt Emergent Volcanoes and Maars, Sinker Butte — Snake River Canyon, Idaho

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