Study Tour - Yellowstone Park
As a culmination of the Geodynamics seminar on
Plume-Ridge Interactions the class, accompanied by several faculty, took a field trip to the Yellowstone
Plateau. The thesis of the trip was to observe the manifestations of a mantle plume in the actively
deforming western United States.
During the field trip each of the students was responsible for leading discussion on various aspects
of the volcanology, tectonics, hydrothermal activity, and biology associated with the hot spot and its
thermal signature.
The map below contains hotlinks to overviews of each of
the student led discussions.