Morphology of inflated pahoehoe lavas and spatial architecture of their porous and permeable zones, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 353, Issue , 2002, Pages 135-150

  Welhan, John A ^a   Johannesen, Chad M ^a,d   Reeves, Kelly S ^b,e   Clemo, Thomas M ^c   Glover, John A ^a,f   Bosworth, Kenneth W ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SM Stoller Corporation   (United States)

^e IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f North Wind Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ASPECT RATIO; CORE DRILLING; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTURE; PLASTIC FLOW; POROSITY; RIVERS;

BOX-COUNTING METHOD; FRACTAL PATTERNS; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE POROSITY; GROWTH PATTERNS; LAVA MORPHOLOGIES; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; VESICULAR STRUCTURE;

MORPHOLOGY;

FRACTURE ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAVA FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870868078     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2353-1.135     Document Type: Article

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