Fracture patterns at lava-ice contacts on Kokostick Butte, OR, and Mazama Ridge, Mount Rainier, WA: Implications for flow emplacement and cooling histories

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 298-310

  Lodge, Robert W D ^a   Lescinsky, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

columnar joints; cooling fractures; expansion fractures; Kokostick Butte; lava ice interaction; Mount Rainier; pseudopillow fractures; sheet like fractures

Indexed keywords

COLUMNAR JOINTS; KOKOSTICK BUTTE; LAVA-ICE INTERACTION; MOUNT RAINIER; PSEUDOPILLOW FRACTURES; SHEET-LIKE FRACTURES;

COOLING; ICE; MOUNTINGS;

FRACTURE;

COOLING; EMPLACEMENT; EXPANSION; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE ORIENTATION; ICE; JOINT; LAVA; MELTING; TENSILE STRESS;

CASCADE RANGE; MOUNT RAINIER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

MAZAMA;

EID: 68349127275     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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