Diatremes and uranium deposits in the Hopi Buttes, Arizona
By: Eugene Merle Shoemaker, C. H. Roach, and F. M. Byers Jr.
Edited by: A.E.J. Engel, Harold L. James, and B. F. Leonard
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Abstract
The Hopi Buttes diatremes erupted in a shallow lake that was filled in as volcanic activity progressed in Pliocene time. At the end of the period of volcanism the landscape included low lava domes capping some of the diatremes, a few flows, and numerous craters of the maar type, surrounded by rims of volcanic debris with gentle exterior slopes that merged with the surrounding plain. Erosion, probably chiefly during early and middle Pleistocene, has exposed the diatremes in varying stages of denudation.
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| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Diatremes and uranium deposits in the Hopi Buttes, Arizona |
| DOI | 10.1130/Petrologic.1962.327 |
| Year Published | 1962 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Geological Society of America |
| Description | 29 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Petrologic studies: A volume in honor of A. F. Buddington |
| First page | 327 |
| Last page | 355 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| Other Geospatial | Hopi Buttes |
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