



U. S. Geological Survey

Professional Paper 729-G

The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana

By Robert L. Christiansen

2001

Abstract

Yellowstone National Park, the oldest of the areas set aside as part of the national park system, lies amidst the Rocky Mountains in northwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts of Montana and Idaho. Embracing large, diverse, and complex geologic features, the park is in an area that is critical to the interpretation of many significant regional geologic problems. In order to provide basic data bearing on these problems, the U.S. Geological Survey in 1965 initiated a broad program of comprehensive geologic and geophysical investigations within the park. This program was carried out with the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which supported the gathering of geologic information needed in testing and in interpreting results from various remote sensing devices. This professional paper chapter is one of a series of technical geologic reports resulting from these investigations

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This report also includes three oversize plates depicting the geology of the Yellowstone Plateau area available here as both PDF and PostScript files. The three plates are entitled:

Geologic Map of the Yellowstone Plateau Area

| plate 1 PDF (4.9 MB) | Encapsulated PostScript (18.5 MB) |

Geologic Map of the Island Park Area, Yellowstone Region

| plate 2 PDF (2.4 MB) | Encapsulated PostScript (3.8 MB) |

Upper Cenozoic Geologic Map, Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field

| plate 3 PDF (1.5 MB) | Encapsulated PostScript (6.6 MB) |

See also:

Koch, R.D., Ramsey, D.W., and Christiansen, R.L., 2011, Database for the Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 551 [https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/551/].

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