Geothermal play fairway analysis, part 1: Example from the Snake River Plain, Idaho

JW Shervais, J DeAngelo, JM Glen, DL Nielson, S Garg… - Geothermics, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Snake River Plain (SRP) volcanic province overlies the track of the
Yellowstone hotspot, a thermal anomaly that extends deep into the mantle. Most of the area …

Thermal Earth model for the conterminous United States using an interpolative physics-informed graph neural network

MJ Aljubran, RN Horne - Geothermal Energy, 2024 - Springer
This study presents a data-driven spatial interpolation algorithm based on physics-informed
graph neural networks used to develop a thermal Earth model for the conterminous United …

Cluster analysis as a tool for evaluating the exploration potential of Known Geothermal Resource Areas

CR Lindsey, G Neupane, N Spycher, JP Fairley… - Geothermics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Although many Known Geothermal Resource Areas in Oregon and Idaho were
identified during the 1970s and 1980s, few were subsequently developed commercially …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding volcanic facies in the subsurface: a combined core, wireline logging and image log data set from the PTA2 and KMA1 boreholes, Big Island …

DA Jerram, JM Millett, J Kück, D Thomas… - Scientific …, 2019 - sd.copernicus.org
To help understand volcanic facies in the subsurface, data sets that enable detailed
comparisons between down-hole geophysical data and cored volcanic intervals are critical …

Geothermal play fairway analysis of the Snake River Plain: Phase 2

JW Shervais, JMG Glen, DL Nielson, S Garg… - 2017 - osti.gov
Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) is a methodology adapted from the petroleum industry that
integrates data at the regional or basin scale to define favorable plays for exploration in a …

Mid-Miocene record of large-scale Snake River–type explosive volcanism and associated subsidence on the Yellowstone hotspot track: The Cassia Formation of …

TR Knott, MJ Branney, MK Reichow, DR Finn… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The 1.95-km-thick Cassia Formation, defined in the Cassia Hills at the southern
margin of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, consists of 12 refined and newly described rhyolitic …

Evidence for cyclical fractional crystallization, recharge, and assimilation in basalts of the Kimama drill core, central Snake River Plain, Idaho: 5.5-million-years of …

KE Potter, JW Shervais, EH Christiansen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Basalts erupted in the Snake River Plain of central Idaho and sampled in the Kimama drill
core link eruptive processes to the construction of mafic intrusions over 5.5 Ma. Cyclic …

[HTML][HTML] The geochronometry of Idaho and the bumpy barcode revisited: Snake River detrital zircons in Hells Canyon and beyond

PK Link, CW Welcker, KE Sundell - Sedimentary Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Detrital zircons in modern stream sands and terraces of the Snake River drainage upstream
of and within Hells Canyon, western Idaho, USA, effectively reproduce the geochronometry …

Yellowstone hotspot–continental lithosphere interaction

MM Jean, BB Hanan, JW Shervais - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Snake River Plain represents 17 my of volcanic activity that took place as the
North American continent migrated over a relatively fixed magma source, or hotspot. We …

Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho

FJ Allstädt, A Koutsodendris, E Appel, W Rösler… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2021 - Springer
Marked by the expansion of ice sheets in the high latitudes, the intensification of Northern
Hemisphere glaciation across the Plio/Pleistocene transition at~ 2.7 Ma represents a critical …