Pyroclastic edifices record vigorous lava fountains during the emplacement of a flood basalt flow field, Roza Member, Columbia River Basalt Province, USA

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 875-891

  Brown, Richard J ^a,c   Blake, S ^a   Thordarson, T ^b,d   Self, S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BUILDINGS; DEPOSITS; FALLOUT; FLOODS; FLOW FIELDS;

COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; EFFUSIVE ERUPTIONS; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; PYROCLASTIC ROCKS; SUB-PLINIAN ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

FOUNTAINS;

EMPLACEMENT; FALLOUT; FLOOD BASALT; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PLUME; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; THOLEIITE;

COLUMBIA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903895267     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30857.1     Document Type: Article

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