A new tree-ring date for the "floating island" lava flow, Mount St. Helens, Washington
Bulletin of Volcanology
By: D.K. Yamaguchi, R. Hoblitt, and D.B. Lawrence
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Abstract
Anomalously narrow and missing rings in trees 12 m from Mount St. Helens' "floating island" lava flow, and synchronous growth increases in trees farther from the flow margin, are evidence that this andesitic flow was extruded between late summer 1799 and spring 1800 a.d., within a few months after the eruption of Mount St. Helens' dacitic layer T tephra. For ease of reference, we assign here an 1800 a.d. date to this flow. The new date shows that the start of Mount St. Helens' Goat Rocks eruptive period (1800-1857 a.d.) resembled the recent (1980-1986) activity in both petrochemical trends and timing. In both cases, an initial explosive eruption of dacite was quickly succeeded by the eruption of more mafic lavas; dacite lavas then reappeared during an extended concluding phase of activity. This behavior is consistent with a recently proposed fluid-dynamic model of magma withdrawal from a compositionally zoned magma chamber. ?? 1990 Springer-Verlag.
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Yamaguchi, D., Hoblitt, R., Lawrence, D., 1990, A new tree-ring date for the "floating island" lava flow, Mount St. Helens, Washington: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 52, no. 7, p. 545-550, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00301535.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A new tree-ring date for the "floating island" lava flow, Mount St. Helens, Washington |
| Series title | Bulletin of Volcanology |
| DOI | 10.1007/BF00301535 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Year Published | 1990 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher location | Springer-Verlag |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Bulletin of Volcanology |
| First page | 545 |
| Last page | 550 |