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Pyroclastic flowsPyroclastic flows
 
This im age
 
show s the
 
form ation
 
of
 
pyroclastic
 
flow s
 
during
 
1980
 
eruption of
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M ont St
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H elens
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Pyroclastic flows are liquid masses
 
of rock fragments that can move
.
quickly
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They can form in several different
.
ways They can form when there is a
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volcanic eruption a lava flow or can
 
be a result of a gravitational
.
collapse
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These flows contain water and gas
,
from the eruption water vapor from
,
melted snow or ice air and rock
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fragments
 
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 The lava flows are the leastdangerous of all theprocesses in a volcaniceruption.
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How far a lava flow will godepends on the temperatureof it and of the silica contentor the slope of the land. Acold lava flow or a lava flowthat has a high silica contentwill not travel far.
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Lava flows don’t move very fastso people rarely get killed bythem but they can causeserious injuries as they arevery hot (between 550degrees C and 1400 degreesC).
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avaflows
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In the 1980 s the town of Kalapana in Hawaii was destroyed by lava
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flows as they buried cars burt homes buildings and vegetation
 
Hawaiian
 
volcano lavaflows
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