Pyroclastic flow

Pyroclastic flow

Lateral flowage of a turbulent mixture of hot gases and unsorted pyroclastic material (volcanic fragments, crystals, ash, pumice, and glass shards) that can move at high speed (50 to 100 miles an hour. ) The term also can refer to the deposit so formed.

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