Distribution, morphology, and size frequency of cinder cones on Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii

Author:: Porter, Stephen C.
Title:: Distribution, morphology, and size frequency of cinder cones on Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii
Periodical:: Geological Society of America Bulletin
Year:: 1972
Volume:: 83
Pages:: 3607-3612
Subject:: Cinder cones Morphology Mauna Kea volcano
Summary:: More than 300 cinder cones on the upper slopes of Mauna Kea volcano reach densities of 8/km(super 2) along three principal rift zones. Low depth/width ratios of cinder cone craters are similar to those of terrestrial impact craters, making this parameter of questionable value of inferring the origin of some classes of extraterrestrial craters. Most cones have westerly asymmetries which imply past dominance of trade-wind circulation during the final eruptive phases of the volcano.
Label:: Geology
URL:: http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1130/0016-7606(1972)83[3607:DMASFO]2.0.CO;2
Date:: December 1972
Collection:: Periodicals