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Richter, Donald H.

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 1959 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, fourth phase of activity in Kilauea Iki Crater. A steady stream of lake lava flows westward into the small circular pond over the vent. The lake level is approximately 15 feet below the high mark of a few hours earlier. View is from the north end of Byron Ledge. Photo by the National Park Service, late morning, December 5, 1959. Figure 22, U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 537-E.
Several narrow terranes occur along the Denali fault in the Eastern and Central Alaska Range in Southern Alaska. These terranes are the Aurora Peak, Cottonwood Creek, Maclaren, Pingston, and Windy terranes, and a terrane of ultramafic and associated rocks. Exterior to the narrow terranes to the south is the major Wrangellia island arc composite terrane, and to the north is the major Yukon-Tanana metamorphosed continental margin terrane. Overlying mainly the northern margin of the Wrangellia composite terrane are the Kahiltna overlap assemblage to the west, and the Gravina-Nutzotin-Gambier volcanic-plutonic-sedimentary belt to the east and southeast. The various narrow terranes are interpreted as the result of translation...
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 1959 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, eighth phase of activity in Kilauea Iki Crater. Area on the rim of the crater opposite a vent deluged by spatter. Denuded and burned ohia trees on the rim of the main crater wall almost 1,000 feet from the vent. December 11, 1959. Figure 27 (top photo), U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 537-E. See also photo rdh00066.
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 1959 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, third phase of activity in Kilauea Iki Crater. Small incandescent tongues of very fluid lava flowing into the west bay of the crater from the base of the fountain. View is from Byron Ledge. 9:00 p.m., November 28, 1959. Figure 16, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 537-E.
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 1959 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, first phase of activity in Kilauea Iki Crater. Fountain and lake during the last day of the first phase, viewed from Kilauea Iki Crater overlook. Exceptionally level surface of the 330-foot deep lava lake. Lighter areas and bands are fluid lava oozing and squeezing up around foundering plates of the crust on the continually reworked surface. #1:00 p.m., November 21, 1959. Figure 13 (bottom), U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 537-E. See also photo rdh00046.
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