PRYOCLASTIC FLOWis the term used to describe a variety of solid materials ejected from volcanic activity other than lava.
- Nuee ardentes are spectacular and potentially lethal mixtures of superheated gases, hot ash and rock fragments that flow at enormous speed down the side of some volcanoes.
- EXAMPLE: volcanic ash from the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 created spectacular sunsets for months,
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