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Lava Channels on Tristan da Cunha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. E. Baker  and
P. G. Harris
P. E. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
P. G. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Leeds.
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Abstract

Lava channels flanked by lava levees are described from Tristan da Cunha. These have been formed by the building up of the levees by overflow and solidification of fluid lava from the channels. A distinction is made between the terms “lava levee” and “lava moraine”.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 100 , Issue 4 , August 1963 , pp. 345 - 351
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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