ropy pahoehoe

ropy pahoehoe
USGS PHOTO GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS
Ropy pahoehoe is the most common surface texture of pahoehoe flows. The numerous folds and wrinkles ("ropes") that are characteristic of ropy pahoehoe form when the thin, partially solidified crust of a flow is slowed or halted (for example, if the crust encounters an obstruction or slower-moving crust). Because lava beneath the crust continues to move forward, it tends to drag the crust along. The crust then behaves like an accordian that is squeezed together--the crust is flexible enough to develop wrinkles or a series of small ridges and troughs as it is compressed and driven forward.
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Photograph by T.N. Mattox on 11 June 1995
Close view of ropy texture forming on the surface of a pahoehoe flow at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i.
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