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Progression of ages of rhyolitic (silicic) lavas and calderas from McDermitt Caldera to Newberry and Yellowstone calderas (red circles: MC, NC, & YC). Numbers are ages in millions of years. KBML - Klamath—Blue Mountains Lineament, HLP - High Lava Plains, EDZ - Eugene—Denio Zone, BFZ - Brothers Fault Zone, SMF - Steens Mountain Fault, VF - Vale Fault, NNR - North Nevada Rift. White arrow shows direction of North American plate, edge of the craton is approximately along the Oregon—Idaho Border, triangles are Cascades volcanoes.
This image based on images and data from the following sources:
- Christiansen, Robert L.; Foulger, G. R.; Evans, John R. (2002-10). "Upper-mantle origin of the Yellowstone hotspot". GSA Bulletin 114 (10): 1245—1256. DOI:10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114.
- Coble, Matthew A.; Mahood, Gail A. (2008). "New geologic evidence for additional 16.5-15.5 Ma silicic calderas in northwest Nevada related to initial impingement of the Yellowstone hot spot, Collapse Calderas Workshop". IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 3 (1). DOI:10.1088/1755-1307/3/1/012002.
- Jordan, Brennan T.; Grunder, Anita L.; Duncan, Robert A.; Deino, Alan L. (2004). "Geochronology of age-progressive volcanism of the Oregon High Lava Plains: Implications for the plume interpretation of Yellowstone". Journal of Geophysical Research 109 (B10202). DOI:10.1029/2003JB002776.
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