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Table 2 Ranges of event flow thickness measured from Jacob’s Staff transects A-F (Figs. 1, 9) of eruptive events with calculated flow volumes using areal extent measured in ArcMap

From: Vikrahraun—the 1961 basaltic lava flow eruption at Askja, Iceland: morphology, geochemistry, and planetary analogs

Transect thickness

A

B

C

D

E

F

Avg. thickness of event flow (m)

Area (km2)

Volume (km3)

Event 1 A'a

2–8.5

 

3–8

 

0.3–3

3–26

6.4

5.67

0.036

Event 2 A'a

1–5

 

2.8–3.8

3–17

0.4–4

3–9

4.57

7.49

0.032

Event 2 Phh

0.25–1

 

0.6–0.9

 

0.2–0.5

1–4

0.85

1.62

0.001

Event 3

0.2–1

1. 5–4.5

  

0.1–0.5

 

0.99

0.07

0.000

Average transect thickness

7

1.5

5.3

9.6

4.2

14.6

7

Total volume

0.071