pillow lava

For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed.

The most common type of flow is pillow lava, named so after its unusual shape.

It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface.

There are also the remains of a submarine volcano with pillow lava.

Its upper section is made up of pillow lavas.

In this phase, the volcano continues to erupt pillow lava.

A series of pillow lavas were also deposited during this eruptive period.

Pillow lavas are also found where volcanoes were under ice early before an eruption.

Pillow lava is a common eruptive product of submarine volcanoes.

These lumps can become somewhat rounded through rolling and they are piled up on top of each other to create pillow lava.

These stretch right to the coast, although Pentire head is composed mainly of pillow lavas.

Stóra-Björnsfell's pillow lava appears originally to have erupted from a fissure.

The cave has been excavated into pillow lavas.

Pillow lavas are also found associated with some subglacial volcanoes at an early stage of an eruption.

Pillow lavas are used as way-up criterion in geology.

Pillow lava is found throughout the belt, indicating lava erupted underwater.

Minor pillow lavas also exist in the Ekalulia flood basalts.

These packets are properly called pillows, and the lavas pillow lavas.

Advancing lava flows into this crust, forming what is known as pillow lava.

However, pillow lava can also form when lava is erupted beneath thick glacial ice.

It is composed of volcanic breccia and pillow lava exuded beneath a former sea.

The blocks are mostly turbidite, but also includes chert, and some pillow lava basalt.

Pillow lava has a round shape because the lava cools very quickly when it touches water.

Pillow lavas are used generally to show volcanism occurred underwater in metamorphic belts.

Less common are pillow lavas; their arrangement along the caldera walls suggests that they were an important component in the volcano's early growth.