University of Utah Papers on the Yellowstone-Teton-Snake River Plain Region

1. Smith, R. B., 1970, A regional gravity survey of western and central Montana, Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 54, 7, 1172- 1183.

2. Sbar, M., M., Baranzangi, J. Dorman, C. Scholz, and R. B. Smith, 1971, Tectonics of the Intermountain Seismic Belt, Western United States: Microearthquake seismicity and composite fault plane solutions, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 83, 13-28.

3. Pennington, W., A. B. Trimble, and R. B. Smith, 1974, A microearthquake survey of parts of the Snake River Plain and Central Idaho: Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 64, 307-312.

4. Bonini, W. and R. B. Smith, 1974, Bouguer Gravity Map of Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Spec. Publ. 62, scale 1:500,00.

5. Smith, R. B. and M. L. Sbar, 1974, Contemporary Tectonics and Seismicity of the Western United States with Emphasis on the Intermountain Seismic Belt, Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 85, no. 8, 1205-1218.

6. Smith, R. B., R. T. Shuey, R. Freidline, R. Otis, and L. Alley, 1974, Yellowstone Hot Spot: New magnetic and seismic evidence: Geology, 2, 451-455.

7. Trimble, A. B. and R. B. Smith, 1975, Seismicity and contemporary tectonics of the Hebgen Lake-Yellowstone Park region: J. Geophys. Res., 80, 5, 733-741.

8. Freidline, R., R. B. Smith, and D. D. Blackwell, 1975, Seismicity and contemporary tectonics of the Helena, Montana area, Bull. Seism. Soc. America, 66, 81-85.

9. Morgan, P., D. D. Blackwell, R. Spafford, and R. B. Smith, 1975, Evidence from heat flow measurements for laterally extensive geothermal fluid systems in the Yellowstone Caldera, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Proceedings Second United Nations Symposium on Geothermal Energy, 2, 1155-1160.

10. Smith, R. B., 1977, Intraplate tectonics of the Western North American Plate, Tectonophysics, 37, 323-336.

11. Smith, R. B., 1977, Preface to the Yellowstone Symposium, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 3663.


12. Smith, R. B., J. R. Pelton, and J. D. Love, 1977, Seismicity and the possibility of earthquake related landslides in the Teton-Gros Ventre-Jackson Hole area, Wyoming, Contributions to Wyoming Geology, v. 14, p. 57-64, Reprinted in Rocky Mountain Thrust Belt Geology and Resources, 603-610.

13. Smith, R. B., 1977, The Yellowstone Symposium, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 3663.

14. Smith, R. B., R. T. Shuey, J. R. Pelton, and J. P. Bailey, 1977, Yellowstone Hot Spot, crustal properties from new earthquake and magnetic data, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 3665-3676.

15. Otis, R. M., R. B. Smith, and R. J. Wold, 1977, Geophysical surveys of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 3705-3718.

16. Wold, R. J., R. B. Smith , and M. A. Mayhew, 1977, Geophysical study of a hydrothermal explosion crater in Mary Bay, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 3733-3738.

17. Morgan, P., D. D. Blackwell, R. E. Spafford, and R. B. Smith, 1977, Heat flow measurements in Yellowstone Lake and the thermal structure of the Yellowstone Caldera, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 379-3732.

18. Smith, R. B., 1978, Seismicity, crustal structure, and intraplate tectonics of the Western Cordillera, in Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera, editors, R. B. Smith and G. P. Eaton, Memoir 152, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 111-144.

19. Smith, R. B. and A. Lindh, 1978, A compilation of fault plane solutions of the Western United States, (in) Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera, editors, R. B. Smith and G. P. Eaton, Memoir 152, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 107-110.

20. Smith, R. B. and G. P. Eaton, 1978, Preface, in Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera, editors, R. B. Smith and G. P. Eaton, Memoir 152, Geol. Soc. Am., vii-viii.

21. Ward, S. H. and others (including R. B. Smith), 1978, A summary of geology, geochemistry, and geophysics of the Roosevelt Hot Springs Thermal area, Utah, Geophysics, 43, 1515-1542.

22. Pelton, J. R. and R. B. Smith, 1979, Recent crustal uplift in Yellowstone National Park, Science, 206, 1179-1182.

23. Smith, R. B. and R. L. Christiansen, 1980, Yellowstone Park as a window on the Earth's interior, Scientific American, 242, 2, 104-117.

24. Smith, R. B., L. W. Braile, M. M. Schilly, J. Ansorge, C. Prodehl, M. Baker, J. H. Healey, S. Mueller, and R. Greensfelder, 1982, The Yellowstone- eastern Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Crustal structure of Yellowstone, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2583-2596.

25. Schilly, M. M., R. B. Smith, J. Ansorge, J. H. Lehman, and L. W. Braile, 1982, The Yellowstone-eastern Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Upper-crustal structure, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2692-2704.

26. Lehman, J. A., R. B. Smith, M. M. Schilly, and L. W. Braile, 1982, Crustal structure of the Yellowstone caldera from delay-time analyses and correlation with gravity data, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2713-2730.

27. Sparlin, M. A., L. W. Braile, and R. B. Smith, 1982, Crustal structure of the Eastern Snake River Plain determined from ray-trace modeling of seismic refraction data, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2619-2633.

28. Baker, M. R., L. W. Braile, and R. B. Smith, 1982, Amplitude normalization of seismograms from multiple seismograph recording systems for the Yellowstone Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Crustal structure of the eastern Snake River Plain, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2597-2610.

29. Braile, L. W., R. B. Smith, J. Ansorge, M. R. Baker, M. A. Sparlin, C. Prodehl, M. M. Schilly, J. H. Healy, S. Mueller, and K. H. Olsen, 1982, The Yellowstone Snake River Plain seismic profiling experiment: Crustal structure of the eastern Snake River Plain, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2597-2610.

30. Doser, D. I. and Smith, R. B., 1982, Seismic moment rates for earthquakes in the Utah region, Bull. Seism. Soc. America, 72, 525-552.

31. Pelton, J. R. and R. B. Smith, 1982, Contemporary vertical surface displacements in Yellowstone National Park, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 2745-2761.

32. Smith, R. B., 1982, Contemporary tectonics and lithospheric structure, Chapter 13 of the Cordillera Orogen, Conterminous U. S. Sector, Geol. Soc. America, Perspective Regional Geological Synthesis, Decade of North American Geology, Special Publication 1.

33. Smith, R. B. and L. W. Braile, 1982, Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park, Thirty- Third Annual Field Conference - 1982 Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, 233-250.

34. Smith, R. B., 1982, Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park, Special preprint for Enrico Fermi International School of Physics Students, Varenna, Italy, 35 p.

35. Doser, D. I and R. B. Smith, 1983, Seismicity of the Teton-Southern Yellowstone Region, Wyoming, Bull. Seism. Soc. America, 73, 1369-1394.

36. Smith, R. B. and L. W. Braile, 1984, Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park; in Studies In Geophysics; Explosive Volcanism: Inception, Evolution, and Hazards, National Academy Press, 96-111.

37. Smith, R. B. and R. L. Bruhn, 1984, Intraplate extensional tectonics of the western U. S. Cordillera: Inferences on structural style from seismic reflection data, regional tectonics and thermal-mechanical models of brittle-ductile deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 5733-5762.

38. Benz, H. and R. B. Smith, 1984, Simultaneous inversion for lateral velocity variations and hypo centers in the Yellowstone region using earthquake and refraction data, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 1208-1220.

39. Smith, R. B. and P. Eddington, 1984, Strain rates in Utah from seismic moments, geodetic surveys and paleoslip, Workshop XI on "Evolution of Regional and Urban Earthquake Hazards and Risk in Utah," U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 84-763, 422-237.

40. Smith, R. B., and W. D. Richins, 1984, Seismicity and earthquake hazards of Utah and the Wasatch front: Paradigm and Paradox proceedings from Workshop XI on "Evaluation of Regional and Urban Earthquake Hazards and Risk in Utah", U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 84-763, 73-112.

41. Richins, W. D., R. B. Smith, C. J. Langer, J. E. Zollweg, J. J. King, and J. C. Pechmann, 1985, The 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho earthquake: Relationship of aftershocks to the mainshock, surface faulting, and regional tectonics, Workshop XXVIII on "The Borah Peak Earthquake," U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 85-290, 285-310.

42. Smith, R. B., W. D. Richins, and D. I. Doser, 1985, The Borah Peak earthquake: Seismicity, faulting kinematics and tectonic mechanism, Workshop XXVIII on "The Borah Peak Earthquake," U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 85-290, 236-263.

43. Doser, D. I., and R. B. Smith, 1985, Source Parameters of the October 28, 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho Earthquake from Body Wave Analysis, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 75, 1041-1051.

44. Smith, R. B, 1986, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1995 through December 31, 1995, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1985, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 68p.

45. Fournier, R. O., D. D. Blackwell, R. L. Christiansen, G. P. Eaton, F. E. Goff, J. F. Hermance, R. Hermann, J. H. Reynolds, R.B. Smith, J. D. Varley , and H. A. Wollenburg, 1987, The objectives for deep scientific drilling in Yellowstone National Park, A report by the Yellowstone National Park Task Group to the Continental Scientific Drilling Committee, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 69 pp.

46. Richins, W. D., J. C. Pechmann, R. B. Smith, C. J. Langer, S. K. Goter, J. E. Zollweg, and J. J. King, 1987, The 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho earthquake and its aftershocks; Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, 77, 694-723.

47. Smith, R. B., and W. C. Nagy, 1987, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1986, to December 31, 1986, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1986, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 25p.

48. Smith, R. B., R. E. Reilinger, C. M. Meertens, J. R. Hollis, S. R. Holdahl, D. Dzurisin, W. K. Gross, and E. E. Klingele, 1989, What's moving at Yellowstone! The 1987 Crustal deformation survey from GPS, leveling, precision gravity and trilateration, Eos, Amer. Geophys Un., 70, 113-125.

49. Westaway, R., and R. B. Smith, 1989, Strong ground motion in normal-faulting earthquakes, Geop. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., 96, 529-559.

50. Clawson, S. R., R. B. Smith, and H. M. Benz, 1989, P-wave attenuation of the Yellowstone caldera from three-dimensional inversion of spectral decay using explosion source seismic data, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 7205-7222.

51. Doser, D. D. and R. B. Smith, 1989, An assessment of source parameters of earthquakes in the Intermontane region of the United States, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 79, 1383-1409.

52. Nagy, W. C. and R. B. Smith, and W. C. Nagy, 1989, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1987, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1987, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 23p.

53. Nagy, W. C. and R. B. Smith, and W. C. Nagy, 1989, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1988, to December 31, 1988, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1988, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 21p.

54. Love, J. David; Nelson, Gerald E.; Palmquist, Robert C.; Pierce, William G.; Hamilton, Wayne; Hutchinson, Roderick A.; Smith, Robert B.; Coogan, James C.; Ulrich, Carl, 1989, Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and the middle rocky mountains: Casper, Wyoming to Salt lake city, Utah, July 20-30, 1989, American Geophysical Union,:28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook v.:T328, pp 93.

55. Smith, R. B., J. O. D. Byrd, and D. D. g, 1990, Neotectonics and structural evolution of the Teton fault, Geologic Field Tours of Western Wyoming and parts Of Adjacent Idaho, Montana, and Utah; Geol. Survey of Wyoming, Public Information Circular No. 29, 126-138.

56. Smith, R. B., J. O. D. Byrd, D. D. Susong, A. G. Sylvester, R. L. Bruhn , and J. Geissman, W., 1990, An Evaluation of Earthquake Hazards of the Grand Teton National Park Emphasizing the Teton fault, Three Year Progress Report, prepared for the University of Wyoming-National Park Service Research Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 149p.

57. Vasco, D. W., Smith, R. B., and Taylor, C., 1990, Inversion of Yellowstone vertical displacements and gravity changes, 1923 to 1975-1977 to 1986. J. Geoph. Res. 95: 19839-19856.

58. Peyton, S. L. and R. B. Smith, 1990, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1989 through December 31, 1989, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1989, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 33p.

59. Hardman, W. and R. B. Smith, 1991, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1990 through December 31, 1990, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1990, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 38p.

60. Sylvester, A. G., J. O. D. Byrd, and R. B Smith, 1991, Geodetic evidence for aseismic reverse creep across the Teton normal fault, Geoph. Res. Letters, 18, 1083-1086.

61. Meertens, C. M. and R. B. Smith, 1991, Crustal deformation of the Yellowstone caldera from first GPS measurements: 1987-1989, Geoph. Res. Letters, 18, 1763-1766.

62. Carle, S. F., J. M. Glen, V. E. Langenheim, R. B. Smith and H. W. Oliver, 1991, Isostatic gravity map and principal facts for 694 gravity stations in Yellowstone National Park and vicinity, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, 1 Over-sized sheet, scale 1:125,000 map, and 1 5 1/4 inch diskette, U. S. Geol. Survey, Open-file Report 90-649A and B.

63. Smith, R. B. and W. J. Arabasz, 1991, Seismicity of the Intermountain Seismic Belt, in Neotectonics of North America, D. B. Slemmons, E. R. Engdahl, M. L. Zoback and D. D. Blackwell (editors), Geol. Soc. Am., SMV V-1, Decade Map Volume 1, 185-228.

64. Smith, R. B., J. O. D. Byrd and D. D. Susong, 1993, The Teton fault: Seismotectonics, Quaternary history and earthquake hazards, in A. W. Snoke, J. Steidtmann, and S. M. Roberts, editors "Geology of Wyoming", Geological Survey of Wyoming Memoir No. 5, p. 628-667.

65. Smith, R. B. and L. W. Braile, 1993, Topographic signature, space-time evolution, and physical properties of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain volcanic system: the Yellowstone hotspot, in A. W. Snoke, J. Steidtmann, and S. M. Roberts, editors, “Geology of Wyoming”, Geological Survey of Wyoming Memoir No. 5, p. 694-754.

66. Smith, R. B., K. L. Pierce and R. J. Wold, 1993, Quaternary history and structure of Jackson Lake, Wyoming, from seismic reflection surveys, in A. W. Snoke, J. Steidtmann, and S. M. Roberts, editors "Geology of Wyoming", Geological Survey of Wyoming Memoir No. 5, p. 668-693.

67. Nava, S. J., and R. B. Smith, 1993, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, to December 31, 1991, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1989, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 29p.

68. Smith, R. B., and L. W. Braile, 1994, The Yellowstone Hotspot, in Jour. Volcanology and Geotherm. Research, eds. D.P. Hill, P. Gasparini, S. McNutt and H. Rymer, H., 61:121-188.

69. Lowry, A. R. and R. B. Smith, 1994, High resolution mapping of flexural rigidity using maximum entropy coherence of gravity and topography, J. Geophys. Res., v. 99, p. 20,095-20,122.

70. Byrd, J. O. D., R. B. Smith and J W. Geissman, 1994, The Teton fault, Wyoming: topographic signature, neotectonics and mechanism of deformation, J. Geophys. Res., v. 99, p. 20,122-20,140.

71. Lowry, A. R. and R. B. Smith, 1995, Strength and rheology of western U. S. Cordillera, J. Geophys. Res., v. 100, p. 17,947-17,964.

72. Nava, S. J., and R. B. Smith, 1996, Earthquake catalog for the Yellowstone National Park region: January 1, 1992, to December 31, 1994, with a contribution by R. A. Hutchinson, Summary of felt earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park, 1992-1994, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 62p.

73. Arnet, F., Kahle, H.-G.; KlingelŽ, E. ; Smith, R. B. ; Meertens, C. M.; Dzurisin, D., 1997, Temporal gravity and height changes of Yellowstone caldera, 1977-1994, Geophys. Res. Lett. v. 24 , n. 22 , p. 2741-2744.

74. Martinez, L., C. M. Meertens, and R. B. Smith, 1998, Anomalous intraplate deformation of the Basin and Range-Rocky Mountain transition from initial GPS measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 25 , No. 4 , p. 567-570.

75. Miller, D. S. and R. B. Smith, 1999, P and S velocity structure of the Yellowstone volcanic field from local earthquake and controlled source tomography, J. Geophys. Res. v. 104, 15,105-15,121.

76. Lageson, D. R., D. C., Adams, L. Morgan, K. L. Pierce, and R. B. Smith, 1999, Neogene-Quaternary tectonics and volcanism of the southern Jackson Hole, Wyoming and southeastern Idaho, in Hughes, S. S. and Thackrey, G. D., eds., Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 115-130.