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The flow of basalt lava from air into water – its structural expression and stratigraphic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. G. Jones  and
P. H. H. Nelson
J. G. Jones
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, N.S.W. 2113, Australia
P. H. H. Nelson
Affiliation:
Shell Canada Ltd, Edmonton, Alberta
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Summary

When basalt lava flows from air into water it leaves a distinctive record of the waterlevel of the time in the form of lava sheets overlying and passing down into vitric breccia and/or pillow lava. Relative movements of waterlevel and a volcanic pile or terrain over a period of time may be readily deciphered from such records.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 107 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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