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- Hyaloclastite is a volcanoclastic ac****ulation or breccia consisting of gl**** (from the Gr**** hyalus) fragments (clasts) formed by quench fragmentation...
- Hyaloclastite Dam was a 1,201 ft (366 m) high lava dam that occupied the Grand Canyon of the U.S. state of Arizona. It formed during the Pleistocene epoch...
- (5 mi) wide. Most of the volcano is formed by trachytic lava flows, but hyaloclastite is also found. Snow, ice, and glaciers cover most of Mount Takahe. With...
- subglacial volcanism. It can contain pillow lava, pillow breccia, hyalotuff, hyaloclastite. Examples are Skefilfjall, Kálfstindar, Helgafell in Iceland and Pillow...
- Hornblendite – Plutonic rock consisting mainly of the amphibole hornblende Hyaloclastite – Volcaniclastic ac****ulation or breccia Icelandite – Igneous rock type...
- result of the much higher fragmentation of phreatomagmatic eruptions. Hyaloclastite is gl**** found with pillow basalts that were produced by non-explosive...
- curvilinear shards that represent the spalled rims of pillow basalt (see: Hyaloclastite). This material is commonly partly altered to chlorite, epidote, quartz...
- of tachylyte. Palagonite, an alteration product of basaltic gl****. Hyaloclastite, a hydrated tuff-like breccia of sideromelane and palagonite. Pele's...
- includes picrite pillows at the base, followed by tholeiitic lavas, then hyaloclastites, then the poikilitic sills. The CLF was gradually uplifted until Eocene-Miocene...
- the glacial maximum of 12–15,000 years ago hyaloclastite, then pillow lavas under steep-sided hyaloclastite occurred.: 4  These built up until Herðubreið...