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What is the difference between tephra and pyroclastic flow?
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Tephra flow is fragments of volcanic rock and lava. Pyroclastic flow is fast moving current of hot gas and rock.
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How can pyroclastic flow be used in a sentence?
Beware the pyroclastic flow!
Was eyjafjallajokull a lahar or a pyroclastic flow?
Neither. It is a volcano that famously erupted in 2010. The eruption produced pyroclastic flows.
Pyroclastic flow would be most likely in what kind of eruption?
plinian
Difference between a lahar and a nuee ardent?
A lahar is a mudflow that forms from water mixing with volcanic material, primarily ash. A nuee ardente, more commonly known as a pyroclastic flow, is a superheated, fast-moving body of ash, rock, and gas that moves down the sides of a volcano as a direct result of an explosive eruption.
What is the difference between surface runoff and groundwater flow?
becuase by the geothermal energy consist of seven elements that cause that
What is the difference between a pyroclastic flow and a pyroclastic surge?
A pyrcoclastic flow is is much denser than a pyroclastic surge, as a large portion of it is composed of ash and rock. A pyrcolastic surge is composed more of gas.
What is the difference between pyroclastic flows and lava flows?
Lava is molten rock at earth's surface. A pyroclastic flow is an avalanch-like flow of hot ash, rock, and gas that moves down a volcano's flanks at great speed.
What is more deadly lava or pyroclastic flow?
Pyroclastic flow.
How can pyroclastic flow be used in a sentence?
Beware the pyroclastic flow!
What is the term for lava flow that travels downhill at over 100mph?
Pyroclastic flow
What volcano produces a pyroclastic flow?
an explosive volcano will usually have a pyroclastic flow
Can you outrun a pyroclastic flow?
No. A pyroclastic flow can move at well over 100 mph.
Only Plinian and Pelean volcanic eruptions feature flow?
pyroclastic flow
Where does pyroclastic flow occur?
Pyroclastic flows occur during explosive eruptions of volcanoes.
What are differences between an eruption column and pyroclastic flow?
An eruption column is a vertical plume of ash and gas produced by a volcanic eruption. A pyroclastic flow a a flow of similar material that moves down the sides of a volcano at great speed.
What damage doese volcanoe cause?
What usually causes the most damage is the pyroclastic debris and the ash. The ash isn't normal fire ash (tephra) more than 10 cm of volcanic ash can collapse a building. The next most devastating factor is the pyroclastic flow (lahar), gases through fumaroles and lastly the lava is least devastating. (Anyone can out run a lava flow... backwards)
What volcano has pyroclastic flow in addition to liquid lava?
the volcano that has pyroclastic flow in addition to liquid lava is the composite or stratovolcano.
