Mt. St. Helens shows that she still has her beauty as her head is swathed in fluffy summer clouds as seen from across one of her many surrounding seas of lava rocks. I believe I don't know the proper name for these "lava beds" so if anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
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The only names I'm familiar with for lava flows (and you very likely had something else in mind) are 'a'a (Hawaiian for "stony rough lava" - which I think your photo illustrates), pahoehoe (Hawaiian for "smooth, unbroken lava"), and pillow lava (forms under or in connection with water).
I looked up 'a'a on Wikipedia, and this is what it had to say about it:
ʻAʻā (also spelled aa, aʻa, ʻaʻa, and a-aa) is basaltic lava characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinker. The loose, broken, and sharp, spiny surface of an ʻaʻā flow makes hiking difficult and slow. The clinkery surface actually covers a massive dense core, which is the most active part of the flow. As pasty lava in the core travels downslope, the clinkers are carried along at the surface. At the leading edge of an ʻaʻā flow, however, these cooled fragments tumble down the steep front and are buried by the advancing flow. This produces a layer of lava fragments both at the bottom and top of an ʻaʻā flow.
Accretionary lava balls as large as 3 metres (10 feet) are common on ʻaʻā flows. ʻAʻā is usually of higher viscosity than pāhoehoe. Pāhoehoe can turn into ʻaʻā if it becomes turbulent from meeting impediments or steep slopes.
The sharp, angled texture makes ʻaʻā a strong radar reflector, and can easily be seen from an orbiting satellite (bright on Magellan pictures).
ʻAʻā lavas typically erupt at temperatures of 1000 to 1100 °C
This was certainly a lot of information. Thank you so much for putting it all together for me. I'm sure I don't know how to pronounce a'a but the description of it sounds like this kind of lava bed. I can't help but wonder what the English name for it is. I'm really happy that you're back.