Observations on basaltic lava streams in tubes from Kilauea Volcano, island of Hawai'i

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue B11, 1998, Pages 27303-27323

  Kauahikaua, Jim ^a   Cashman, Katharine V ^b   Mattox, Tari N ^a,c   Christina Heliker, C ^a   Hon, Ken A ^a,d   Mangan, Margaret T ^a   Thornber, Carl R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EMPLACEMENT; FLOOD BASALT; LAVA FLOW; LAVA TUBE; PAHOEHOE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

HAWAII; KILAUEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032449202     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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