Eruptive history and tectonic setting of Medicine Lake Volcano, a large rear-arc volcano in the southern Cascades

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-328

  Donnelly Nolan, Julie M ^a   Grove, Timothy L ^b   Lanphere, Marvin A ^a   Champion, Duane E ^a   Ramsey, David W ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

calcalkaline basalt; Cascades arc; granitoid intrusion; HAOT; Medicine Lake Volcano

Indexed keywords

ARGON; BASALT; BUILDINGS; CAVITY RESONATORS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CURING; EARTH SCIENCES; GRANITE; IGNEOUS ROCKS; INERT GASES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; OLIVINE; PETROGRAPHY; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARC VOLCANOES; BASALT FLOWS; BASIN AND RANGES; CALCALKALINE BASALT; CASCADES ARC; CRUST MANTLES; DRILL HOLES; EFFUSION RATES; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITIES; ERUPTIVE HISTORIES; GEOTHERMAL DRILLINGS; GRANITOID INTRUSION; HAOT; HIGH-NA; LATE HOLOCENE; MAGMATIC ARCS; RHYOLITE ERUPTIONS; RHYOLITIC; SILICIC LAVAS; SPATIAL PROXIMITIES; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TIME FRAMES; VOLCANIC FIELDS; WASHINGTON;

VOLCANOES;

BACKARC BASIN; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DACITE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HOLOCENE; ISLAND ARC; RHYOLITE; SHIELD VOLCANO; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; MEDICINE LAKE VOLCANO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54149103271     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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