The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER V

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Underground Phases of Volcanic Action. B. Materials injected or consolidated beneath the Surface--Intrusive Series: I. Vents of Eruption--i. Necks of Fragmentary Materials; ii. Necks of Lava-form Materials; iii. Distribution of Vents in relation to Geological Structure-Lines; iv. Metamorphism in and around Volcanic Cones, Solfataric Action; v. Inward Dip of Rocks towards Necks; vi. Influence of contemporaneous Denudation upon Volcanic Cones; vii. Stages in the History of old Volcanic Vents 52