Mesa Falls Tuff exposed at southern rim of both the Island Park Caldera and the Henry's Fork Caldera near Ashton, Idaho.
Volcano
Henry's Fork Caldera
Date
1.3 million years ago
Type
Ultra-Plinian
Location
Idaho, United States 44°20′N111°20′W / 44.33°N 111.33°W / 44.33; -111.33
Volume
280 km3 (67 cu mi)
VEI
7
Extent of the Mesa Falls ash bed
The Mesa Falls Tuff is a tuff formation produced by the Mesa Falls eruption that formed the Henry's Fork Caldera that is located in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park.[1] It is the second most recent caldera forming eruption from the Yellowstone hotspot and ejected of 280 km3 (67 cu mi) of material. This eruption, 1.3 million years BP, was preceded by the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff and succeeded by the Lava Creek Tuff, both of which were also formed by the Yellowstone hotspot.[2]
^Christiansen, R.L., 2001, The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-G, 145 p.
The MesaFallsTuff is a tuff formation produced by the MesaFalls eruption that formed the Henry's Fork Caldera that is located in Idaho west of Yellowstone...
eruption from the Yellowstone hotspot. It was followed by the MesaFallsTuff and the Lava Creek Tuff eruptions. The eruption likely occurred in 3 phases, separated...
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff), the MesaFalls eruption 1.3 million years ago (which created the Henry's Fork Caldera and the MesaFallsTuff), and the Lava Creek...
Idaho. Upper MesaFalls is roughly 114 feet (35 m) high and 200 feet (61 m) wide. MesaFallsTuff, which is the rock over which Upper MesaFalls cascades...
Tuff about 2 million years ago created the more than 75 km (47 mi) long Island Park Caldera. The second cycle concluded with the eruption of the Mesa...
today is the later Henry's Fork Caldera, which is the source of the MesaFallsTuff. It was formed 1.3 Ma in an eruption of more than 280 km3 (67 cu mi)...
280 km3 (67 cu mi) 1.3 million years ago, and is the source of the MesaFallsTuff. The Henry's Fork Caldera is nested inside of the Island Park Caldera...
3 million years ago, forming the Henry's Fork Caldera and depositing the MesaFallsTuff. Each of the three climactic eruptions released vast amounts of ash...
Naomi E. Matthews (2014). "The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption". Frontiers in Earth Science. 2: 16. Bibcode:2014FrEaS...2...
The Lava Creek Tuff is a voluminous sheet of ash-flow tuff located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, United States. It was created during the Lava Creek...
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inclusions and their host quartz: a new technique and application to the MesaFallsTuff, Yellowstone". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 174 (3):...
Nicholas J. G. (2017-04-01). "High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of pleistocene tuffs and temporal anchoring of the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary". Quaternary Geochronology...
2016). "Zircon Petrochronology and40Ar/39Ar Sanidine Dates for the MesaFallsTuff: Crystal-scale Records of Magmatic Evolution and the Short Lifespan...
with volcanic ash (the Bandelier Tuff) from an eruption of the Valles Caldera volcano 1.14 million years ago. The tuff overlays shales and sandstones deposited...
granitic plutonic Supamo Complex. The Cuchivero Group consists of ash flow tuff and granitic plutonic rocks. The Early to Middle Proterozoic Roraima Group...
Hong Kong; although the High Island Reservoir is not basalt but rhyolitic tuff, rich in potash feldspar and quartz phenocrysts. In India, columnars are...
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camping area as well that accommodates tent camping only. Its sheer cliffs of tuff and basalt are ideal for rock climbing of all difficulty levels. Smith Rock...
to the province of Bulacan and the La Mesa Watershed. Soil found in both areas of Caloocan predominantly falls under the Novaliches Series, covering 96%...
Astronauts in recognizing volcanic features, such as ash flow tuffs, pumice air falls, and rhyolite domes. Notable geologist instructors included Roy...
and includes dikes, lava flows, spatter cones, tephra deposits, tuff cones, and mesas where the surrounding terrain has been eroded away. Vents span the...
unconformity from the Pikes Peak Granite to the next unit, the Wall Mountain tuff. The massive unconformity is due to erosion that occurred during the uplift...
a four fight win streak, earning three wins by armbar and capturing the Tuff-N-Uff Flyweight title in the process and defending it once. Casey made her...
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