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   https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2322334  

   Munroe, Jeffrey S (December 2024, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research)

   Summit flats are low relief, gently sloping landforms common in periglacial mountain environments. Apart from at their edges where summit flats are truncated by glacial headwalls, and at their crests where isolated tors are occasionally present, bedrock is typically mantled on a summit flat by a continuous layer of regolith. This study applied ground penetrating radar (GPR) to survey the thickness of regolith on a summit flat in the Uinta Mountains (Utah, USA). More than 500 m of GPR data were collected along transects extending from the edge of the summit flat to the crest, as well as adjacent to a deep soil pit. Results indicate that the regolith thickness is quite variable, with a mean of 91 ± 38 cm. Because the ground surface of the summit flat is notably smooth, the variability in thickness is a consequence of irregularities in the bedrock surface at depth, which is significantly rougher. Recognition that regolith thickness can vary considerably beneath an alpine summit flat has implications for soil formation, carbon storage, and the transmission and storage of shallow groundwater, as well as evolutionary models for periglacial mountain landscapes. 

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2. U.S. Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across Organizations and Sectors: Proceedings of a Workshop

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   Academies, National (February 2025, National Academies Press)

   Pool, Robert (Ed.)

   On October 10-11, 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the U.S. Research Data Summit at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC. The summit was undertaken by a planning committee organized under the U.S. National Committee for CODATA. The summit was informed by input from 29 organizations, including leaders from federal government agencies, the private sector, public and nonprofit organizations, and research institutions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the summit. 

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3. Kīlauea Volcano’s 2008-2018 summit lava lake: chronology and eruption insights.

   Patrick, M.R.; Orr, T.R.; Swanson, D.A.; Houghton, B.F.; Wooten, K; Desmither, L.; Parcheta, C.E. (January 2021, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper)

   The 2008–2018 lava lake at the summit of Kīlauea marked the longest sustained period of lava lake activity at the summit in decades and provided a new opportunity for observing and understanding lava lake behavior. This paper cover the basic chronology of the eruption, rich historical background, observations and measurements of lake activity, hydrological setting, as well as geophysical and other monitoring data that tracked the activity. The primary focus is the 2008–2018 lava lake activity, ending with the draining of the lake in May 2018. The 2018 summit collapse events that followed the lake draining, and which dramatically altered the topography of the summit region, are published elsewhere. 

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4. Kīlauea’s 2008–2018 Summit Lava Lake—Chronology and Eruption Insights

   Patrick, M; Orr, T; Swanson, D A; Houghton, B F; Wooten, K; Desmither, L; Parcheta, C; Fee, D. (January 2021, US Geological Survey professional paper)

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   The first eruption at Kīlauea’s summit in 25 years began on March 19, 2008, and persisted for 10 years. The onset of the eruption marked the first explosive activity at the summit since 1924, forming the new “Overlook crater” (as the 2008 summit eruption crater has been informally named) within the existing crater of Halemaʻumaʻu. The first year consisted of sporadic lava activity deep within the Overlook crater. Occasional small explosions deposited spatter and small wall-rock lithic pieces around the Halemaʻumaʻu rim. After a month-long pause at the end of 2008, deep sporadic lava lake activity returned in 2009. Continuous lava lake activity began in February 2010. The lake rose significantly in late 2010 and early 2011, before subsequently draining briefly in March 2011. This disruption of the summit eruption was triggered by eruptive activity on the East Rift Zone. Rising lake levels through 2012 established a more stable, larger lake in 2013, with continued enlargement over the subsequent 5 years. Lava reached the Overlook crater rim and overflowed on the Halemaʻumaʻu floor in brief episodes in 2015, 2016, and 2018, but the lake level was more commonly 20–60 meters below the rim during 2014–18. The lake was approximately 280×200 meters (~42,000 square meters) by early 2018 and formed one of the two largest lava lakes on Earth. A new eruption began in the lower East Rift Zone on May 3, 2018, causing magma to drain from the summit reservoir complex. The lava in Halemaʻumaʻu had drained below the crater floor by May 10, followed by collapse of the Overlook and Halemaʻumaʻu craters. The collapse region expanded as much of the broader summit caldera floor subsided incrementally during June and July. By early August 2018, the collapse sequence had ended, and the summit was quiet. The historic changes in May–August 2018 brought a dramatic end to the decade of sustained activity at Kīlauea’s summit. The unique accessibility of the 2008–18 lava lake provided new observations of lava lake behavior and open-vent basaltic outgassing. Data indicated that explosions were triggered by rockfalls from the crater walls, that the lake consisted of a low-density foamy lava, that cycles of gas pistoning were rooted at shallow depths in the lake, and that lake level fluctuations were closely tied to the pressure of the summit magma reservoir. Lava chemistry added further support for an efficient hydraulic connection between the summit and East Rift Zone. Notwithstanding the benefits to scientific understanding, the eruption presented a persistent hazard of volcanic air pollution (vog) that commonly extended far from Kīlauea’s summit. 

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5. Summit for Examining the Potential for Crosscutting Concepts to Support Three-Dimensional Learning: Conference Proceedings

   Fick, S.J. (January 2019, Summit for Examining the Potential for Crosscutting Concepts to Support Three-Dimensional Learning: Conference Proceedings)

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