pyroclastic

Examples

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• Hot ash and noxious gas billow out in a wave known as a pyroclastic surge.

• Scientists study pyroclastic deposits to understand past volcanic activity and its impacts on the environment.

• That is a pyroclastic cloud.

  Dante's Peak (1997)

• There won't be much of a video of the shock from a pyroclastic flow...

  Blog text (34)

• The ensuing pyroclastic flow is thought to have been 1.5 km high and traveling close to the speed of sound

  Blog text (34)

• Ashfall, pyroclastic flows, lahars, and incandescent material affected roughly 650,000 people in Tungurahua and Chimborazo provinces.

  Academic text (2017)

• Vegetation recovery on the pyroclastic flows is still minimal and consists of isolated individuals or groups of plants in favorable microsites (Del Moral and Bliss 1993).

  Academic text (1997)

• Seismic activity in the Soufriere Hills volcano, beginning in 1992, resulted in an explosive eruption in July 1995, followed by a series of pyroclastic mudflows that destroyed and buried most of Plymouth, the island's capital, by 1998.

  Academic text (2003)

• The devastating pyroclastic flow destroyed everything in its path during the volcanic eruption.

• During the eruption, a thick pyroclastic cloud rose high into the atmosphere, carrying ash and rock fragments.

Synonyms

V

volcanic

vspyroclastic

• Specialized

77 3.9

Relating to volcanoes or the lava and ash they produce

focuses specifically on fragments of rock and ash produced during eruptions

E

eruptive

vspyroclastic

• Specialized

1 7.3

Actively sending out lava, ash, or gas

refers instead to the solid fragments and ash left by that activity

C

cindery

vspyroclastic

1 6.5

Covered with small black pieces of burnt stone and ash, like the ground near a volcano

is limited to fragments produced specifically by volcanic eruption processes

E

eruptional

vspyroclastic

• Specialized

1 7.7

Relating to a sudden violent outburst like a volcano or geyser

highlights the solid fragments and ash that result from that outburst

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology