************************************************* Hotspot- Snake River Scientific Drilling Project ************************************************* From: Dennis Geist <dgeist@xxxxxxxxxx> Here is a potential opportunity for the international volcanological community, May 18-21: Hotspot, the Snake River Scientific Drilling Project, announces an inter-disciplinary workshop that will focus on the science issues and logistics central to a comprehensive, internediate depth drilling program in the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho, USA. The Snake River Plain represents a world-class example of active mantle plume volcanism in an intra-continental setting. Because it is young and tectonically undisturbed, the complete record of volcanic activity can be sampled only by drilling. The preliminary scientific plan is to core a series of 4-6 drill holes along the axis of the eastern and western Snake River Plain in order to study the geochemical and stratigraphic variations in plume-related volcanism in space and time. More information at: http://www.usu.edu/geo/hotspot/ ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
