Figure 5. Small, light-colored phenocrysts in highly compacted welded ash-flow tuff, Traveler Rhyolite. The long, thin lenses are fragments of pumice which were flattened when the ash-flows were compressed by the weight of overlying layers. Photo from Rankin and Caldwell, 2010.

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