Tuya or table mountain
Tuyas form during subglacial volcanic eruptions where the eruption completely melts the overlying glacier. The result is a small shield volcano (basalt flows) capping a mass of tephra formed as the eruption melted the overlying ice.
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Oberlin College Library
1997
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