Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-02303

Image GVP-02303

Dark-colored linear volcanic dikes, previous magma pathways, cut across altered pyroclastic rocks that are now exposed in the crater wall of northern Mutnovsky. Photo by Oleg Volynets, 1971 (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).

Dark-colored linear volcanic dikes, previous magma pathways, cut across altered pyroclastic rocks that are now exposed in the crater wall of northern Mutnovsky.

Photo by Oleg Volynets, 1971 (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).

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Galleries: Volcanic Outcrops

Keywords: outcrop | stratigraphy | dike | geology

Mutnovsky

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Image GVP-02303