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  • Usage in publication:
    • Big Glass Mountain complex
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Lava
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Southern Oregon basin
Publication:

Powers, H.A., 1932, The lavas of the Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle, California: American Mineralogist, v. 17, no. 7, p. 253-294.


Summary:

Pg. 280-282. Big Glass Mountain complex. Big Glass Mountain, whose flows cover an area of about 9 sq mi, is largest accumulation of Recent siliceous lava in Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle. The lava ranges from rhyolite to dacite

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