Yellowstone

Currently, we're using surface waves from earthquakes (Schutt and Dueker, 2007, in press) and ambient noise to image the crust and upper mantle in the Yellowstone region. Using the group and phase velocities from Rayleigh waves, along with crustal thickness constraints (Yuan et al, 2007, in prep.), we inverted for a high resolution shear velocity model for the Yellowstone Hotspot track. We use this model to interpret past and present magmatic processes in the region.
Yellowstone Vs model

article (Stachnik2008)
Stachnik, J.; Dueker, K.; Schutt, D. & Yuan, H.
Imaging Yellowstone plume-lithosphere interactions from inversion of ballistic and diffusive Rayleigh wave dispersion and crustal thickness data
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
2008, 9, Q06004
Earthscope 2007 poster, J. Stachnik, K. Dueker, and D. Schutt (2007), Constraining Yellowstone Hotspot magmatic processes beneath the eastern Snake River Plain


FFT Daystacks for Billings array stations,