THE MECHANICS OF SUBGLACIAL BASALTIC LAVA FLOW EMPLACEMENT: INFERRING PALEO-ICE CONDITIONS

• Main Author: Hungerford, Jefferson D. G.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Canada; British Columbia; Mount Edziza; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20197/; http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20197/10/Hungerfordjdg_etd2013_v2.1.pdf

Recent studies of terrestrial glaciovolcanic terrains have elucidated the utility of volcanic deposits as recorders of ice conditions at the time of eruption. Practically all of these investigations, however, have focused upon the associations of volcaniclastic and coherent lava lithofacies at or pr...