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Pyroclastic Material and Flow
Kinds of
Volcanoes
100
In the air.
When does pyroclastic material solidify?
100
Sheild Volcanoes.
What kind of volcano has very runny lava and spreads over a wide area?
200
From boulders the size of houses to tiny grains that will stay in the atmoshpere for many years.
What sizes does pyroclastic material range from?
200
Cinder cone volcanoes.
What kind of volcano is made of pyroclastic material usually produced from moderately explosive eruptions?
300
Pyroclastic flow.
What is one type of particularly dangerous volcanic flow?
300
Composite volcanoes.
What kind of volcano is sometimes called a stratovolcano?
400
When enormous amounts of hot ash, dust, and gases are ejected from a volcano.
How are pyroclastic flows produced?
400
Japan's Mount Fuji.
What is one composite volcano in Japan?
500
700 degrees celsius.
What temperatures can pyroclastic flows exceed?
500
Cinder cone volcanoes.
What kind of volcano often occurs in clusters, commonly on the sides of other volcanoes?