scholarly journals In situ production of chlorine-36 in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer, Idaho : implications for describing ground-water contamination near a nuclear facility

2000 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ground Water ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Snake River Plain ◽  
Snake River ◽  
Nuclear Facility ◽  
Ground Water Contamination ◽  
River Plain ◽  
Chlorine 36 ◽  
In Situ Production

scholarly journals 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 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Kessler ◽  
K.K. Bradbury ◽  
J.P. Evans ◽  
M.A. Pulsipher ◽  
D.R. Schmitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Stress ◽  
Snake River Plain ◽  
Snake River ◽  
Geothermal Exploration ◽  
Exploration Drilling ◽  
River Plain

Chlorine-36 in the Snake River Plain Aquifer at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory: Origin and Implications

Ground Water ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Beasley ◽  
L. D. Cecil ◽  
P. Sharma ◽  
P. W. Kubik ◽  
U. Fehn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Snake River Plain ◽  
Snake River ◽  
River Plain ◽  
Chlorine 36

Reconstructing a Snake River Plain ‘super-eruption’ via compositional fingerprinting and high-precision U/Pb zircon geochronology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Ellis ◽  
Mark Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Explosive Volcanism ◽  
Radiogenic Isotopes ◽  
Snake River Plain ◽  
Snake River ◽  
Isotope Dilution Method ◽  
Dilution Method ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
River Plain

<p><span><span>Despite the largest explosive eruptions posing significant potential hazards, the recurrence rate of these so called ‘super-eruptions’ remains poorly constrained. The younger portion of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain province is well-known for large-scale explosive volcanism; however, the older history within the Snake River Plain remains poorly-known and partially obscured by later basaltic volcanism. To address this, we characterised the mineral cargo of four widely spaced rhyolitic ignimbrites found at the margins of the Snake River Plain that reveal a strong compositional similarity in bulk geochemistry, major crystal phases (e.g. pyroxene and ilmenite), and radiogenic isotopes. To test whether these four compositionally similar units may have had a common origin we used a tandem in-situ and isotope dilution method for U/Pb geochronology of zircon crystals. The youngest populations of zircons from all four samples are equivalent in age, and together define a pooled weighted mean <sup>238</sup>U/<sup>206</sup>Pb age of 11.030 ± 0.006 (MSWD = 1.44, n=24). These results reveal an event with a conservatively estimated erupted volume ~1,470 km<sup>3</sup>, of similar magnitude to the largest Yellowstone eruptions. Numerous widely dispersed tephra deposits found across the western portions of North America with geochemical affinities to the Snake River Plain province hint at the existence of other such voluminous ignimbrites. The improved ability to correlate deposits of an individual eruption shown by this and other recent studies implies that ‘super’ eruptive events are more common than previously thought. </span></span></p>

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