The Snake River cutting through the plain leaves many canyons and gorges, such as this one near Twin Falls, IdahoSnake River Plain across southern IdahoThe eastern Snake River Plain, image from NASA's Aqua satellite, 2008
The Snake River Plain is a geologic feature located primarily within the U.S. state of Idaho. It stretches about 400 miles (640 km) westward from northwest of the state of Wyoming to the Idaho-Oregon border. The plain is a wide, flat bow-shaped depression and covers about a quarter of Idaho. Three major volcanic buttes dot the plain east of Arco, the largest being Big Southern Butte.
Most of Idaho's major cities are in the Snake River Plain, as is much of its agricultural land.
43°00′N 113°30′W / 43.000°N 113.500°W / 43.000; -113.500 The SnakeRiverPlain is a geologic feature located primarily within the U.S. state of Idaho...
millions of years ago, Columbia River basalts covered vast areas of the western SnakeRiver watershed, while the SnakeRiverPlain was a product of the Yellowstone...
North American tectonic plate moved over it. It formed the eastern SnakeRiverPlain through a succession of caldera-forming eruptions. The resulting calderas...
The SnakeRiver Aquifer is a large reservoir of groundwater underlying the SnakeRiverPlain in the southern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. Most of the...
cold deserts lie within the Columbia Plateau/Columbia Basin, the SnakeRiverPlain, and the Colorado Plateau regions. (listed from north to south) Great...
the dam was not rebuilt. Interest in building a dam in the eastern SnakeRiverPlain had arisen for many years to control spring runoff and provide a more...
Northern Shoshone are Shoshone of the SnakeRiverPlain of southern Idaho and the northeast of the Great Basin where Idaho, Wyoming and Utah meet. They...
approximately 33,000,000 cubic feet per second (930,000 m3/s) poured over the SnakeRiverPlain at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and deposited hundreds...
the Western SnakeRiverPlain and the Great Basin. in W.L. Fink and N. Carpenter (eds.). Fishes of the Mio-Pliocene Western SnakeRiverPlain and Vicinity...
the SnakeRiverPlain located in the area. The northern Magic Valley region — particularly Blaine and Camas Counties — is also known as the Wood River Valley...
also known as the plain-bellied water snake or plainbelly water snake, is a common species of semi-aquatic, non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the United...
Basin are Native Americans of the northern Great Basin, SnakeRiverPlain, and upper Colorado River basin. The "Great Basin" is a cultural classification...
caldera lies the SnakeRiverPlain, which was formed by a succession of older calderas marking the path of the Yellowstone hotspot. The plain is a depression...
domes formed over a million years near the center of the Eastern SnakeRiverPlain in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is one of the largest volcanic domes...
southwestern Idaho northeast of Boise, as well as part of the western SnakeRiverPlain. The watershed encompasses approximately 4,100 square miles (11,000 km2)...
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