Effusive subglacial rhyolite eruptions (in preparation)

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Much to be added soon on the products of effusive subglacial rhyolite volcanoes at Torfajökull, including descriptions of....... Rhyolitic lava lobes Mass flow deposits Ice-constrained lava flows - Hugh 06/03/01

Columnar-jointed lava flow within an effusive subglacial rhyolite sequence at Bláhnúkur.

References on effusive subglacial rhyolite eruptions

• Tuffen H, Gilbert JS, McGarvie DW (2001) Products of an effusive subglacial rhyolite eruption: Bláhnúkur, Torfajökull, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology 63, 179-190.
  

• Tuffen H, Pinkerton H, Gilbert JS, McGarvie DW (2002) Melting of the glacier base during a small-volume subglacial rhyolite eruption: evidence from Bláhnúkur, Iceland. Sedimentary Geology 149: 183-198.
  
  

• Furnes H, Fridleifsson IB, Atkins FB (1980) Subglacial volcanics - on the formation of acid hyaloclastites. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 8:95-110