The 1978 Yellowstone Snake River Plain Seismic Profiling Experiment
Nickname
SNAKERIVER
Format
SEGY
Type
USGS
Start year
1978
End Year
1978
Description
Selection of the Yellowstone-eastern Snake River Plain region for the seismic experiment was based upon the recognition that it representeda major continental, volcano-tectonic province (over 800 km long) and suggested a lithospheric source of heating that had thermally perturbed and altered an overlying Archean crystalline crust.
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