Major stratigraphical inversions are recognized in two parts of the Sulitjelma area, on the border of Norway and Sweden. In the Otervatn area, inversion is directly demonstrated by way-up structures in pillow lavas of the Sulitjelma Amphibolite Group. The porphyritic amphibolites of the group belong to a penecontemporaneous sheeted intrusive complex which originally underlay the pillow lavas. The other inversion, S of Sorjusjaure, is proposed in order to simplify the stratigraphical succession of the area. The inversions are both thought to belong to the inverted limb of the Gasak Nappe, which is the upper tectonic unit at Sulitjelma. Folding associated with the inversion could cause tectonic repetition of the strata-bound Sulitjelma ore horizon.

Blebs of anorthoclase-phyric purple rock, usually up to 10 cm but occasionally up to 30 cm in diameter, occur in trachyte lavas of the volcanoes Kilombe and Kapkut, Kenya. The blebs have bulbous outlines and chilled margins and are therefore considered to have been liquid when incorporated in the trachyte. Chemically similar to the benmoreites of Hawaii, Skye and the southern Kenya Rift Valley, they bridge a gap in an otherwise complete sequence of lavas from basalt to trachyte. The failure of benmoreite to erupt as a lava is attributed to viscosity reaching a maximum among intermediate lavas.

The pahoehoe and pillow lavas described show many common features of morphology. A finger-like or digital flow mechanism adequately accounts for the similarities although the growth mechanism of individual lobes is by markedly different processes. An important distinction is the time taken to develop a rigid crust and its subsequent expansion by fracturing and auto intrusion. This is rapidly achieved in pillow lavas but only occurs at a late stage in the pahoehoe forms. The main factors controlling the formation of these features are the environment of eruption, the volume of erupted material and the rate of eruption.