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G

Gas

(see volatile; water )

noncondensible (see carbon dioxide )

Gauro Yellow Tuff, Italy 166


422

Geobarometer 311 , 377

Geochemistry

(see chemical processes, hydrogeochemistry )

Geomorphology

(see also landforms )

constraints 5

Geothermal

(see also hydrothermal )

energy 1 -5

exploration (prospecting) 1 -5, 95 , 295

gradient (see thermal gradient )

heat

conversion to electricity 354 -355

reservoir 4

depth 89 -95, 154 -160, 243 -245, 246

development 171

geometry 89 -95, 159 -160, 243 -245, 250 -251

potential 16 , 115 , 171 , 246

pyroclastic deposits 89 -95, 159 -160

resource

magnitude 42 -50, 171

production 46 -47, 171

systems

caldera 159 -160

basaltic volcanoes 225 -259

hot-dry rock 160

hot water 119 , 160

surface manifestations 119 -140, 159 -162

vapor-dominated 120

well (see well )

Geothermometer 311 , 377

Geovolcanology (see volcanology )

Geyser

eruption 120 -121

Old Faithful, Wyoming 120 -121

Glass

(see also pyroclastic rocks )

alteration 94

chemical variations 70

hydration 70

palagonitization 70

basaltic 70

devitrification 187

refractive index 339

silicic 94

solution 131 , 135

Glomeroporphyritic 377

Gradient

pressure 88

thermal 51

Grain (clast)

shape 320

size (see granulometry )

texture 320 , 326

Granulometry (grain-size distribution) 8 , 303 , 312 -320, 377

basalts 67

class-size intervals 314

classification 21 -22, 312 , 340 -341

dome tephra 185

economic significance 90

hydrovolcanic (hydroclastic) 67 -68

interpretation 18 , 312 -316

log-normal distribution 312

median diameter 314 , 316 , 318

Mount St. Helens 67 , 320

rhyolites 60 , 67

sequential fragmentation/transport 315 -320, 322

sieving 312

size-frequency distribution 60

Crater Elegante, Mexico 320

Fogo A tephra, Azores 318 , 323

Mount St. Helens 320

Vesuvius, Italy 321

sorting 312 , 319

subpopulations 315 , 320 -321

Vulcano 67

Wairakei Formation 60

Gravitational slumps

Hawaii 226

Réunion Island 255 -259

Groundmass 377

Ground surge (see pyroclastic surge )

Ground tilt 97 , 102 , 107 , 108

Groundwater (see water )


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