Geologic Publications for Mount Rainier

Mapping hydrothermally altered rocks on Mount Rainier, Washington, with Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data

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Author(s): James K. Crowley, David R. Zimbelman

Category: PUBLICATION
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Publisher: Geology
Published Year: 1997
Volume: 25
Number: 6
Pages: 559 to 562
DOI Identifier: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0559:MHAROM>2.3.CO;2
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Abstract:
Mount Rainier has produced numerous Holocene debris flows, the largest of which contain clays and other minerals derived from hydrothermally altered rocks on the volcano's edifice. Imagery from an advanced airborne sensor was used to map altered rocks at Mount Rainier and demonstrates their distinctly nonuniform distribution. The mapping of altered rocks helps to identify edifice failure surfaces and to recognize the source areas for the largest debris flow events. Remote sensing methods like those used at Mount Rainier can enhance ground-based mapping efforts and should prove useful for rapidly identifying hazardous sectors at other volcanoes.

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In Text Citation:
Crowley and Zimbelman (1997) or (Crowley and Zimbelman, 1997)

References Citation:
Crowley, J.K. and D.R. Zimbelman, 1997, Mapping hydrothermally altered rocks on Mount Rainier, Washington, with Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data: Geology, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 559-562, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0559:MHAROM>2.3.CO;2 .