Snake Plains

Erwin DP, IK Erickson, ME Delwiche, FS Colwell, JL Strap, RL Crawford (2005) Diversity of oxygenase genes from methane- and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the Eastern Snake River plain aquifer. Appl... 

Rabinowicz M, Ceuleneer G, Monnereau M, Rosemberg C (1990) Three-dimensional models of mantle flow across a low-viscosity zone implications for hotspot dynamics. Earth Planet Sci Lett 99 170-184 Reid MR(1995) Processes of mantle enrichment and magmatic differentiation in the eastern Snake River Plain Th isotope evidence. Earth Planet Sci Lett, 131 239-254 Reid MR, Ramos FC (1996) Chemical dynamics of enriched mantle in the southwestern United States Thorium isotope evidence. Earth Planet Sci Lett, 138 67-81. 

Fjeld RA, DeVol TA, Goff RW, Blevins MD, Brown DD, luce SM, Elzerman AW (2001) Characterization of the mobilities of selected actinides and fission/activation products in laboratory columns containing subsurface material from the Snake River Plain. Nucl Tech 135 92-108 Fleischer RL (1980) Isotopic disequilibrium of uranium alpha-recoil damage and preferential solution effects. Science 207 979-981... 

They passed through the far gates of the city suddenly, they were out in the open. The road snaked in front of them as far as the eye can see, over the flat Zemgale plain toward Lithuania, a brown-soil sea of farmland and tundra uninterrupted for eighty miles except for Lilliputian farmhouses, patches of bog, and scattered copses. At Wilzen, Landmarschal Otto von... 

Female snakes leave odor trails as they move through vegetation. Their body odor adheres to the anterolateral surfaces of vertical objects. Males then are able to determine the direction of a female s path. The plains garter snake, Thamnophis radix, extracts information in this way (Ford and Low, 1984). 

Neonate food-naive snakes prefer odors of their natural food eastern plains GS respond to worm, leech, fish, and tadpole odors while western smooth green snakes respond to cricket odor (Burghardt, 1967) coastal neonate Thamnophis elegans respond to slugs but the inland form does not (Arnold, 1981a)... 

Cerling, T. E., Poreda, R. E., Rathbum, S. L. (1994) Cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne age of the Big Lost River flood, Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geology, 22, 227-30. 

Saltzer R. L. and Humphreys E. D. (1997) Upper mantle P wave velocity structure of the eastern Snake River Plain and its relationship to geodynamic models of the region. 

Environmental Laboratory on the Snake River Plain. High Sr/ Sr and waters enter the Snake River... 

The groundwater geochemistry of the Snake River Plain aquifer system has been described by Wood and Low (1988). It is an excellent example of how a knowledge of aquifer mineralogy can... 

Figure 1 Map showing the location of wells and directions of groundwater flow. Snake River Plain aquifer, Idaho...

Figure 2 Graph showing barium concentrations plotted versus the saturation index of the mineral barite calculated for Snake River Plain groundwater (source Wood and Low, 1988).

The Snake River Plain aquifer is also an example of an aquifer in which groundwater chemistry is not strongly affected by directions and rates of groundwater flow. There are no well-defined changes in solute concentrations along the aquifer flow path (Table 1). As we shall see in subsequent examples, this insensitivity to directions of groundwater flow is unusual, and is due to the relatively rapid nature of ongoing dissolution and precipitation reactions in the Snake River Plain aquifer. 

Armstrong R. L. (1971) K—Ar chronology of Snake River Plain, Idaho (abs) Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, p. 366. 

Embree G. F., McBroome L. A., and Soherty D. J. (1982) Preliminary stratigraphic framework of the Pliocene and Miocene rhyolite. Eastern Snake River Plain. Idaho Bureau Mines Geol. Bull. 26, 333—346. 

Lindholm G. F., Garabedian S. P., Newton G. D., and Whitehead R. L. (1983) Configuration of the Water Table, March 1980 in the Snake River Plain Regional Aquifer System, Idaho and Eastern Oregon. US Geological Survey Open-file Report 82-1022, scale 1 1,000,000. 

Bartholomay RC, Orr BR, Liszewski MJ, et al. 1995. Hydrologic conditions and distribution of selected radiochemical and chemical constituents in water, Snake River Plain aquifier, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho, 1989 through 1991. Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4175. Idaho Falls, Idaho U.S. Geological Survey. 

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