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BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN WITH EMPHASIS ON THE CRATERS OF THE MOON

BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN WITH EMPHASIS ON THE CRATERS OF THE MOON




























INTRODUCTION
The Snake River Plain (SRP) is an arc that extends 400 miles from east to west across southern Idaho (Figure 1). It is 50 miles wide at its narrowest point to the east and 125 miles wide at the Yellowstone Plateau. There are many different theories for the origin of the SRP including a depression, a down warp, a graben, and a rift. The east and west portions of the SRP are uniform in topography; however, there are major structural and geophysical differences. The geological and geophysical anomalies vary from the east section of the SRP to the center section and on to the western section.
The western section of the SRP is a fault-bound basin filled by interbedded volcanic rocks and lakebed sediments of Tertiary and Quaternary age. Well-drilling has produced core samples showing 11,150 feet of alternating sediment and volcanic rock...

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