The importance of pāhoehoe

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 81-110

  Self, S ^a   Keszthelyi, L ^a   Thordarson, Th ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basalt; Environmental impact of volcanism; Flood basalts; Lava; Pahoehoe

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LAVA; PAHOEHOE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0031696380     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.81     Document Type: Article

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