Assembling an ignimbrite: Compositionally defined eruptive packages in the 1912 Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes ignimbrite, Alaska

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1094-1107

  Fierstein, Judy ^a   Wilson, Colin J N ^b,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Andesite; Dacite; Ignimbrite; Katmai; Novarupta 1912 eruption; Rhyolite; Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; DACITE; IGNIMBRITE; PACKAGE BOUNDARIES; RHYOLITE; VALLEY OF TEN THOUSAND SMOKES (VTTS);

ABRASIVES; COMPACTION; DEPOSITION; EROSION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; LANDFORMS;

ROCKS;

ANDESITE; DACITE; IGNIMBRITE; PUMICE; RHYOLITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VALLEY OF TEN THOUSAND SMOKES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21944441635     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25621.1     Document Type: Article

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