Geologic setting of the Snake River Plain aquifer and vadose zone

The Snake River Plain aquifer owes its existence and abundance to a unique sequence of tectonic, volcanic, and sedimentologic processes associated with the migration of the North American tectonic plate southwestward across the Yellowstone hotspot, or mantle plume. The basalt lava flows that host th...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Vadose zone journal 2004-02, Vol.3 (1), p.47-58
1. Verfasser:	Smith, R.P
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	aquifers basalt Bingham County Idaho Blaine County Idaho Bonneville County Idaho Butte County Idaho Cenozoic Clark County Idaho controls eastern Snake River plain extension tectonics geology ground water groundwater flow heat flow Hydrogeology hydrologic cycle hydrology Idaho Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory INEEL Jefferson County Idaho lava flows Minidoka County Idaho movement neotectonics physicochemical properties Quaternary sedimentation sediments Snake River plain Snake River Plain Aquifer soil transport processes soil water movement tectonics temperature Tertiary United States unsaturated zone vadose zone volcanism Yellowstone Hot Spot
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