Small-volume basaltic volcanoes: Eruptive products and processes, and posteruptive geomorphic evolution in Crater Flat (Pleistocene), southern Nevada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1313-1330

  Valentine, Greg A ^a   Perry, Frank V ^a   Krier, Don ^a   Keating, Gordon N ^a   Kelley, Richard E ^a   Cogbill, Allen H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalt; Lava flow; Monogenetic; Polycyclic; Scoria cone; Strombolian; Violent Strombolian

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC VOLCANOES; GEOMORPHIC EVOLUTION; POLYCYCLIC ERUPTIONS; PYROCLASTIC CONES;

BASALT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

VOLCANOES;

BASALT; EMPLACEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAVA FLOW; MAGMATISM; PLEISTOCENE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

CRATER FLAT; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750971155     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25956.1     Document Type: Article

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