The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff which formed 764,800 ± 600 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the approximately six-day eruption that formed...
7 KB (630 words) - 09:30, 19 June 2024
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into...
42 KB (4,848 words) - 06:48, 10 July 2024
topography. The tuff deposited at Wagontire Mountain in Oregon and Bishop Tuff in California show evidence of late stage viscous flow. These tuffs have a similar...
23 KB (2,987 words) - 04:45, 18 July 2024
towards Bishop, California, is filled with the Bishop Tuff, solidified ash that was ejected during the eruption that created the caldera. The Bishop tuff is...
22 KB (2,705 words) - 07:13, 15 August 2024
cut through the Bishop Tuff: a layer of welded ash formed from the eruption of the Long Valley Caldera. This erosion exposed the tuff layers, including...
3 KB (277 words) - 08:27, 15 December 2021
underwent about 15 dry-wet cycles. The Lava Creek Tuff of Yellowstone Caldera and the Bishop Tuff of the Long Valley Caldera were deposited in the Corcoran...
10 KB (977 words) - 14:34, 16 May 2024
they remain as tephra unless hot enough to fuse into pyroclastic rock or tuff. When a volcano explodes, it releases a variety of tephra including ash,...
18 KB (2,029 words) - 01:39, 13 August 2024
emplaced by pyroclastic flows. Pyroclastic fall Pyroclastic rock Welded tuff Branney M.J. & Kokelaar, B.P. 2002, Pyroclastic Density Currents and the...
19 KB (2,314 words) - 09:29, 15 August 2024
seminal paper on Bishop Tuff studies. Subsequent works by him have also helped establish a greater understanding of the Bishop Tuff and its origins. In...
18 KB (1,807 words) - 15:54, 14 May 2024
Rocks from the Bishop Tuff, uncompressed with pumice on left; compressed with fiamme on right....
11 KB (1,142 words) - 20:07, 8 January 2024
Long Valley Caldera some 760,000 years ago is preserved in the thick Bishop Tuff that covers much of the region. Eruptions of basalt and andesite 400...
53 KB (6,013 words) - 22:36, 6 November 2023
"Observations on normal-fault scarp morphology and fault system evolution of the Bishop Tuff in the Volcanic Tableland, Owens Valley, California, USA". Lithosphere...
7 KB (767 words) - 16:08, 10 August 2024
completely coalesced. Illustrates the porous nature in detail. Rocks from the Bishop tuff, uncompressed with pumice on left; compressed with fiamme on right. Two...
29 KB (3,471 words) - 10:44, 19 August 2024
Naomi E. Matthews (2014). "The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption". Frontiers in Earth Science. 2: 16. Bibcode:2014FrEaS...2...
68 KB (1,153 words) - 19:06, 22 June 2024
volcanic rocks, or by patchy revesiculation of welded tuff matrix (especially in rheomorphic peralkaline tuffs). Agglomerate – Coarse accumulation of volcanic...
2 KB (271 words) - 10:28, 18 October 2023
campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia Petroglyphs on a Bishop Tuff tableland, eastern California Southern Utah Southern Utah Utah Arches...
53 KB (4,684 words) - 18:51, 6 August 2024
The remains of Owens River at Bishop Tuff. In 1913 the watercourse was diverted for irrigation and drinking water in Los Angeles....
41 KB (4,438 words) - 07:09, 14 August 2024
of Bishop Tuff. Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA; 1.25 Ma; VEI 7; around 600 cubic kilometers (144 cu mi) of the Tshirege Member (Upper Bandelier Tuff) eruption...
82 KB (8,452 words) - 03:20, 15 August 2024
inspired aspects of the 1974 film Chinatown. Towns in the Owens Valley include Bishop, Lone Pine, Independence and Big Pine; about 25,000 people live in the valley...
26 KB (2,842 words) - 01:57, 19 June 2024
County, California, USA; 758.9 ± 1.8 ka; VEI 7; 600 km3 (140 cu mi) of Bishop Tuff. Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA; around 1.15 Ma; VEI 7; around 600 km3...
57 KB (6,198 words) - 16:56, 19 June 2024
Shoot Out with Gregory Peck, which also starred True Grit's Jeff Corey. Bishop Tuff Mono Basin National Scenic Area "Twin Lakes". Geographic Names Information...
9 KB (942 words) - 06:02, 22 September 2023
as a rocky landform. The surface of the layered plateau is known as Bishop Tuff and features fumarole mounds and hundreds of north-south oriented fault...
19 KB (2,068 words) - 21:02, 14 August 2024
world. There are over 2,000 bouldering problems in Bishop. The two main types of rock are volcanic tuff (at the Happy and Sad boulders) and granite (at the...
46 KB (4,621 words) - 12:43, 20 August 2024
Geological Survey. "Mammoth Mountain Flows, Long Valley Caldera, and Bishop Tuff". Retrieved April 7, 2023 – via ArcGIS. Fierstein, Judith E. "NGDB rock...
24 KB (1,987 words) - 06:12, 28 May 2024
still possible for volcanoes to erupt on longer intervals than that. Bishop Tuff Hot Creek (Mono County, California) California Volcano Observatory, Connect...
6 KB (462 words) - 06:03, 22 September 2023
Dalrymple, G. B. and (1965). "Potassium-argon age and paleomagnetism of the Bishop tuff, California". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 76 (6): 665–673...
19 KB (1,905 words) - 11:43, 22 November 2023
occur very frequently; it is further possible that the eruption of the Bishop Tuff of Long Valley Caldera prompted a catastrophic flood through the Adobe...
12 KB (1,364 words) - 06:09, 19 December 2023
flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive...
23 KB (2,627 words) - 03:03, 20 August 2024
Creek Eruption, took place 640,000 years ago and created the Lava Creek Tuff, and the most recent Yellowstone Caldera. The Yellowstone hotspot is one...
40 KB (4,303 words) - 08:18, 6 May 2024