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Mount St. Helens 1980 and Mount Pelee 1902; flow or surge?
George P. L. Walker and Lisa A. McBroome
Mount St. Helens 1980 and Mount Pelee 1902; flow or surge?
Geology (Boulder) (October 1983) 11 (10): 571-574
Mount St. Helens 1980 and Mount Pelee 1902; flow or surge?
Geology (Boulder) (October 1983) 11 (10): 571-574
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Antilles
- ash falls
- ash flows
- Caribbean region
- Cascade Range
- classification
- genesis
- grain size
- igneous rocks
- Lesser Antilles
- Martinique
- Mount Pelee
- Mount Saint Helens
- nuees ardentes
- pyroclastic flows
- pyroclastic surges
- pyroclastics
- Skamania County Washington
- textures
- United States
- volcanic ash
- volcanic rocks
- volcanoes
- volcanology
- Washington
- West Indies
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
The directed blast and nuees ardentes at Mount St. Helens and Mount Pelee are interpreted to have been violently emplaced pyroclastic flows producing deposits of low-aspect-ratio type, the characteristics of which stem from an exceptionally high flow velocity.--Modified journal abstract.
ISSN: 0091-7613
EISSN: 1943-2682
Coden: GLGYBA
Serial Title: Geology (Boulder)
Serial Volume: 11
Serial Issue: 10
Title: Mount St. Helens 1980 and Mount Pelee 1902; flow or surge?
Affiliation: Hawaii Inst. Geophys.,
Honolulu, HI,
United States
Pages: 571-574
Published: 198310
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
References: 17
Accession Number: 1983-060278
Categories: Igneous and metamorphic petrology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Annotation: Hawaii Inst. Geophys.; Contrib. No. 1382
Illustration Description: illus.
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N14°00'00" - N15°00'00", W61°30'00" - W60°30'00"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2018, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 1983
