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Lava And Ice Interaction At Stratovolcanoes: Use Of Characteristic Features To Determine Past Glacial Extents And Future Volcanic Hazards, David T. Lescinsky, Jonathan H. Fink
Lava And Ice Interaction At Stratovolcanoes: Use Of Characteristic Features To Determine Past Glacial Extents And Future Volcanic Hazards, David T. Lescinsky, Jonathan H. Fink
Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Structures resulting from lava and ice interaction are common at glaciated stratovolcanoes. During summit eruptions at stratovolcanoes, meltwater is produced and travels freely down steep slopes and thin permeable valley glaciers, eroding the ice and enlarging preexisting glacial drainages. As a result, in this environment have produced few catastrophic floods. Lava flowing into the open channels and voids in the glaciers becomes confined and grows thicker, filling the available space and producing steep-sided bodies with smooth, bulbous contact surfaces. Quenching of lava against ice or by water forms small-scale features such as tensional fractures and glass. As the amount of …
Origin Of Intraplate Volcanoes From Guyot Heights And Oceanic Paleodepth, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Fred Duennebier, Garrett Ito
Origin Of Intraplate Volcanoes From Guyot Heights And Oceanic Paleodepth, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Fred Duennebier, Garrett Ito
Geology Faculty Publications
The height of a guyot as measured from the surrounding regional sea floor to the volcano's slope break records the water depth at the time the guyot submerged. Thus guyot heights may be used as indicators of the paleodepth of the surrounding ocean floor. We compile data on the heights of 68 intraplate guyots and atolls in the Pacific Ocean as well as 46 volcanic islands in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. We find that guyot heights generally increase with the age of the lithosphere upon which they were emplaced, although there is a large amount of scatter. In …