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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%82_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A" title="تدفق بركاني فتاتي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="تدفق بركاني فتاتي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9" title="আগ্নেয়শিলা প্রবাহ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আগ্নেয়শিলা প্রবাহ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uson" title="Uson – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Uson" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Пирокластичен поток – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Пирокластичен поток" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pirocl%C3%A0stic" title="Flux piroclàstic – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Flux piroclàstic" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroklastick%C3%BD_proud" title="Pyroklastický proud – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Pyroklastický proud" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroklastisk_vulkanudbrud" title="Pyroklastisk vulkanudbrud – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Pyroklastisk vulkanudbrud" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutlawine" title="Glutlawine – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Glutlawine" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B5%C3%B5mpilv" title="Lõõmpilv – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Lõõmpilv" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CF%85%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%AE" title="Πυροκλαστική ροή – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Πυροκλαστική ροή" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flujo_pirocl%C3%A1stico" title="Flujo piroclástico – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Flujo piroclástico" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piroklasta_fluo" title="Piroklasta fluo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Piroklasta fluo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodei_piroklastiko" title="Hodei piroklastiko – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Hodei piroklastiko" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B0%D8%B1%D8%A2%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="جریان آذرآواری – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جریان آذرآواری" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%C3%A9e_ardente" title="Nuée ardente – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Nuée ardente" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sreabhadh_pireaclastach" title="Sreabhadh pireaclastach – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Sreabhadh pireaclastach" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%99%94%EC%82%B0%EC%87%84%EC%84%A4%EB%A5%98" title="화산쇄설류 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="화산쇄설류" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%AF%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%AF_%D5%B0%D5%B8%D5%BD%D6%84" title="Պիրոկլաստիկ հոսք – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Պիրոկլաստիկ հոսք" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awan_panas" title="Awan panas – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Awan panas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusthlaup" title="Gusthlaup – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Gusthlaup" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colata_piroclastica" title="Colata piroclastica – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Colata piroclastica" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%9D_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99" title="זרם פירוקלסטי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="זרם פירוקלסטי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekoulman_piwoklastik" title="Ekoulman piwoklastik – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Ekoulman piwoklastik" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%C3%AEk%C3%AEna_piroklast%C3%AEk" title="Herîkîna piroklastîk – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Herîkîna piroklastîk" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effluxus_pyroclasticus" title="Effluxus pyroclasticus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Effluxus pyroclasticus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piroklastinis_srautas" title="Piroklastinis srautas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Piroklastinis srautas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkanikus_t%C3%B6rmel%C3%A9k%C3%A1r" title="Vulkanikus törmelékár – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Vulkanikus törmelékár" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Пирокластичен тек – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Пирокластичен тек" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliran_piroklastik" title="Aliran piroklastik – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Aliran piroklastik" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastische_stroom" title="Pyroclastische stroom – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Pyroclastische stroom" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%81%AB%E7%A0%95%E6%B5%81" title="火砕流 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="火砕流" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroklastisk_str%C3%B8m" title="Pyroklastisk strøm – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Pyroklastisk strøm" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroklastisk_straum" title="Pyroklastisk straum – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Pyroklastisk straum" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nua%C3%A9e_ardaunte" title="Nuaée ardaunte – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="Nuaée ardaunte" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_piroclastic" title="Flux piroclastic – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Flux piroclastic" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawina_piroklastyczna" title="Lawina piroklastyczna – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Lawina piroklastyczna" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxo_pirocl%C3%A1stico" title="Fluxo piroclástico – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Fluxo piroclástico" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_piroclastic" title="Flux piroclastic – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Flux piroclastic" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Пирокластический поток – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Пирокластический поток" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow" title="Pyroclastic flow – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Pyroclastic flow" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroklastick%C3%BD_pr%C3%BAd" title="Pyroklastický prúd – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Pyroklastický prúd" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Mayon_Volcano_eruption_at_Daraga_Church.jpg/220px-Mayon_Volcano_eruption_at_Daraga_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Mayon_Volcano_eruption_at_Daraga_Church.jpg/330px-Mayon_Volcano_eruption_at_Daraga_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Mayon_Volcano_eruption_at_Daraga_Church.jpg/440px-Mayon_Volcano_eruption_at_Daraga_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Pyroclastic flows sweep down the flanks of <a href="/wiki/Mayon_Volcano" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayon Volcano">Mayon Volcano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, in 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>pyroclastic flow</b> (also known as a <b>pyroclastic density current</b> or a <b>pyroclastic cloud</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a fast-moving current of hot <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_gas" title="Volcanic gas">gas</a> and volcanic matter (collectively known as <a href="/wiki/Tephra" title="Tephra">tephra</a>) that flows along the ground away from a <a href="/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcano</a> at average speeds of 100 km/h (30 m/s; 60 mph) but is capable of reaching speeds up to 700 km/h (190 m/s; 430 mph).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gases and tephra can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,800 °F). </p><p>Pyroclastic flows are the most deadly of all <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_hazard" title="Volcanic hazard">volcanic hazards</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and are produced as a result of certain <a 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Their speed depends upon the density of the current, the volcanic output rate, and the gradient of the slope. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_of_term">Origin of term</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin of term"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BishopTuff.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/BishopTuff.jpg/220px-BishopTuff.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/BishopTuff.jpg/330px-BishopTuff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/BishopTuff.jpg/440px-BishopTuff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Pyroclastic rocks from the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_tuff" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop tuff">Bishop tuff</a>; uncompressed with <a href="/wiki/Pumice" title="Pumice">pumice</a> (on left), compressed with <a href="/wiki/Fiamme" title="Fiamme">fiamme</a> (on right)</figcaption></figure> <p>The word <i>pyroclast</i> is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%E1%BF%A6%CF%81" class="extiw" title="wikt:πῦρ">πῦρ</a></span></span> (<i>pýr</i>), meaning "fire", and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:κλαστός">κλαστός</a></span></span> (<i>klastós</i>), meaning "broken in pieces".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PerseusDict_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PerseusDict-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A name for pyroclastic flows that glow red in the dark is <b><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">nuée ardente</i></span></b> (French, "burning cloud"); this was notably used to describe the disastrous 1902 eruption of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Pel%C3%A9e" title="Mount Pelée">Mount Pelée</a> on <a href="/wiki/Martinique" title="Martinique">Martinique</a>, a French island in the Caribbean.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pyroclastic flows that contain a much higher proportion of gas to rock are known as "fully dilute pyroclastic density currents" or <a href="/wiki/Pyroclastic_surge" title="Pyroclastic surge">pyroclastic surges</a>. The lower density sometimes allows them to flow over higher topographic features or water such as ridges, hills, rivers, and seas. They may also contain steam, water, and rock at less than 250 °C (480 °F); these are called "cold" compared with other flows, although the temperature is still lethally high. Cold pyroclastic surges can occur when the eruption is from a vent under a shallow lake or the sea. Fronts of some pyroclastic density currents are fully dilute; for example, during the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902, a fully dilute current overwhelmed the city of <a href="/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique" title="Saint-Pierre, Martinique">Saint-Pierre</a> and killed nearly 30,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A pyroclastic flow is a type of <a href="/wiki/Gravity_current" title="Gravity current">gravity current</a>; in scientific literature, it is sometimes abbreviated to PDC (pyroclastic density current). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Causes">Causes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Causes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Pyroclastic_flow" title="Special:EditPage/Pyroclastic flow">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Several mechanisms can produce a pyroclastic flow: </p> <ul><li><i>Fountain collapse</i> of an <a href="/wiki/Eruption_column" title="Eruption column">eruption column</a> from a <a href="/wiki/Plinian_eruption" title="Plinian eruption">Plinian eruption</a> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79" class="mw-redirect" title="Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79">Mount Vesuvius' destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii</a> in 79 AD). In such an eruption, the material forcefully ejected from the vent heats the surrounding air and the turbulent mixture rises, through <a href="/wiki/Convection" title="Convection">convection</a>, for many kilometers. If the erupted jet is unable to heat the surrounding air sufficiently, convection currents will not be strong enough to carry the plume upwards and it falls, flowing down the flanks of the volcano.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Fountain collapse</i> of an eruption column associated with a <a href="/wiki/Vulcanian_eruption" title="Vulcanian eruption">Vulcanian eruption</a> (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Soufri%C3%A8re_Hills" title="Soufrière Hills">Soufrière Hills</a> volcano has generated many of these deadly pyroclastic flows and surges). The gas and projectiles create a cloud that is denser than the surrounding air and becomes a pyroclastic flow.</li> <li>Frothing at the mouth of the vent during degassing of the erupted lava. This can lead to the production of a rock called <a href="/wiki/Ignimbrite" title="Ignimbrite">ignimbrite</a>. This occurred during the eruption of <a href="/wiki/Novarupta" title="Novarupta">Novarupta</a> in 1912.</li> <li>Gravitational collapse of a <a href="/wiki/Lava_dome" title="Lava dome">lava dome</a> or spine, with subsequent avalanches and flows down a steep slope (e.g., Montserrat's Soufrière Hills volcano, which caused nineteen deaths in 1997).</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Lateral_eruption" title="Lateral eruption">directional blast</a> (or jet) when part of a volcano collapses or explodes (e.g., the <a href="/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens" title="1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens">eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980</a>). As distance from the volcano increases, this rapidly transforms into a gravity-driven current.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Size_and_effects">Size and effects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Size and effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PyroclasticFlow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PyroclasticFlow.jpg/220px-PyroclasticFlow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PyroclasticFlow.jpg/330px-PyroclasticFlow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PyroclasticFlow.jpg/440px-PyroclasticFlow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Building remnant in Francisco Leon destroyed by pyroclastic surges and flows during eruption of <a href="/wiki/El_Chichon" class="mw-redirect" title="El Chichon">El Chichon</a> volcano in Mexico in 1982. Reinforcement rods in the concrete were bent in the direction of the flow.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg/220px-Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg/330px-Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg/440px-Pyroclastic_Flow_St._Helens.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="410" /></a><figcaption>A scientist examines pumice blocks at the edge of a pyroclastic flow deposit from <a href="/wiki/Mount_St._Helens" title="Mount St. Helens">Mount St. Helens</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg/220px-Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg/330px-Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg/440px-Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="580" data-file-height="852" /></a><figcaption>The casts of some victims in the so-called "Garden of the Fugitives", <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Flow volumes range from a few hundred cubic meters to more than 1,000 cubic kilometres (240 cu mi). Larger flows can travel for hundreds of kilometres, although none on that scale has occurred for several hundred thousand years. Most pyroclastic flows are around <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>one to ten cubic kilometres (<span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span>–<span class="frac">2<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> cu mi) and travel for several kilometres. Flows usually consist of two parts: the <i>basal flow</i> hugs the ground and contains larger, coarse boulders and rock fragments, while an extremely hot <a href="/wiki/Ash_plume" class="mw-redirect" title="Ash plume">ash plume</a> lofts above it because of the turbulence between the flow and the overlying air, admixing and heating cold atmospheric air causing expansion and convection.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Flows can deposit less than 1 meter to 200 meters in depth of loose rock fragment.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_energy" title="Kinetic energy">kinetic energy</a> of the moving cloud will flatten trees and buildings in its path. The hot gases and high speed make them particularly lethal, as they will incinerate living organisms instantaneously or turn them into carbonized fossils: </p> <ul><li>The cities of <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> and <a href="/wiki/Herculaneum" title="Herculaneum">Herculaneum</a>, Italy, for example, were engulfed by pyroclastic surges in 79 AD with many lives lost.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 1902 eruption of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Pel%C3%A9e" title="Mount Pelée">Mount Pelée</a> destroyed the <a href="/wiki/Martinique" title="Martinique">Martinique</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique" title="Saint-Pierre, Martinique">St. Pierre</a>. Despite signs of impending eruption, the government deemed St. Pierre safe due to hills and valleys between it and the volcano, but the pyroclastic flow charred almost the entirety of the city, killing all but three of its 30,000 residents.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>A pyroclastic surge killed <a href="/wiki/Volcanologist" title="Volcanologist">volcanologists</a> <a href="/wiki/Harry_Glicken" title="Harry Glicken">Harry Glicken</a> and <a href="/wiki/Katia_and_Maurice_Krafft" title="Katia and Maurice Krafft">Katia and Maurice Krafft</a> and 40 other people on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Unzen" title="Mount Unzen">Mount Unzen</a>, in Japan, on June 3, 1991. The surge started as a pyroclastic flow and the more energised surge climbed a spur on which the Kraffts and the others were standing; it engulfed them, and the corpses were covered with about <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">5 mm (<span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> in) of ash.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On June 25, 1997, a pyroclastic flow travelled down Mosquito Ghaut on the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> island of <a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a>. A large, highly energized pyroclastic surge developed. This flow could not be restrained by the Ghaut and spilled out of it, killing 19 people who were in the Streatham village area (which was officially evacuated). Several others in the area suffered severe burns.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interaction_with_water">Interaction with water</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Interaction with water"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Testimonial evidence from the <a href="/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa" title="1883 eruption of Krakatoa">1883 eruption of Krakatoa</a>, supported by experimental evidence,<sup id="cite_ref-Freundt2003_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freundt2003-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shows that pyroclastic flows can cross significant bodies of water. However, that might be a <a href="/wiki/Pyroclastic_surge" title="Pyroclastic surge">pyroclastic surge</a>, not flow, because the density of a gravity current means it cannot move across the surface of water.<sup id="cite_ref-Freundt2003_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freundt2003-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One flow reached the <a href="/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra">Sumatran</a> coast as far as 48 kilometres (26 nautical miles) away.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2006 BBC documentary film, <i>Ten Things You Didn't Know About Volcanoes</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> demonstrated tests by a research team at <a href="/wiki/Kiel_University" title="Kiel University">Kiel University</a>, Germany, of pyroclastic flows moving over the water.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the reconstructed pyroclastic flow (stream of mostly hot ash with varying densities) hit the water, two things happened: the heavier material fell into the water, precipitating out from the pyroclastic flow and into the liquid; the temperature of the ash caused the water to evaporate, propelling the pyroclastic flow (now only consisting of the lighter material) along on a bed of steam at an even faster pace than before. </p><p>During some phases of the Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat, pyroclastic flows were filmed about <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">1 km (<span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> nmi) offshore. These show the water boiling as the flow passes over it. The flows eventually built a delta, which covered about 1 km<sup>2</sup> (250 acres). Another example was observed in 2019 at <a href="/wiki/Stromboli" title="Stromboli">Stromboli</a> when a pyroclastic flow traveled for several hundreds of meters above the sea.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A pyroclastic flow can interact with a body of water to form a large amount of mud, which can then continue to flow downhill as a <a href="/wiki/Lahar" title="Lahar">lahar</a>. This is one of several mechanisms that can create a lahar.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_other_celestial_bodies">On other celestial bodies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: On other celestial bodies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1963, NASA astronomer <a href="/wiki/Winifred_Cameron" title="Winifred Cameron">Winifred Cameron</a> proposed that the lunar equivalent of terrestrial pyroclastic flows may have formed sinuous <a href="/wiki/Rille" title="Rille">rilles</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>. In a lunar volcanic eruption, a pyroclastic cloud would follow local relief, resulting in an often sinuous track. The Moon's <a href="/wiki/Schroter%27s_Valley" title="Schroter's Valley">Schröter's Valley</a> offers one example.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable secondary sources. (July 2019)">non-primary source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Some volcanoes on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Tyrrhenus_Mons" title="Tyrrhenus Mons">Tyrrhenus Mons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hadriacus_Mons" title="Hadriacus Mons">Hadriacus Mons</a>, have produced layered deposits that appear to be more easily eroded than lava flows, suggesting that they were emplaced by pyroclastic flows.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pyroclastic_fall" title="Pyroclastic fall">Pyroclastic fall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyroclastic_rock" title="Pyroclastic rock">Pyroclastic rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welded_tuff" class="mw-redirect" title="Welded tuff">Welded tuff</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Branney M.J. & Kokelaar, B.P. 2002, Pyroclastic Density Currents and the Sedimentation of Ignimbrites. 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(2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123859389000419">"Volcanism on Mars"</a>. In Sigurdsson, Haraldur; Houghton, Bruce; McNutt, Steve; Rymer, Hazel; Stix, John (eds.). <i>The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes</i> (Second ed.). Amsterdam: Zimbelman. pp. 717–728. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-12-385938-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-12-385938-9"><bdi>978-0-12-385938-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Volcanism+on+Mars&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+Volcanoes&rft.place=Amsterdam&rft.pages=717-728&rft.edition=Second&rft.pub=Zimbelman&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-0-12-385938-9&rft.aulast=Zimbelman&rft.aufirst=James+R.&rft.au=Garry%2C+William+Brent&rft.au=Bleacher%2C+Jacob+Elvin&rft.au=Crown%2C+David+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FB9780123859389000419&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APyroclastic+flow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Sigurdson, Haraldur: Encyclopedia of volcanoes. Academic Press, 546–548. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-12-643140-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-12-643140-X">0-12-643140-X</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although the coining of the term <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">nuée ardente</i></span> in 1904 is attributed to the French geologist <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Lacroix" title="Alfred Lacroix">Antoine Lacroix</a>, according to: <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHooker1965" class="citation journal cs1">Hooker, Marjorie (1965). "The origin of the volcanological concept <i>nuée ardente</i>". <i>Isis</i>. <b>56</b> (4): 401–407. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F350041">10.1086/350041</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144772310">144772310</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Isis&rft.atitle=The+origin+of+the+volcanological+concept+nu%C3%A9e+ardente&rft.volume=56&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=401-407&rft.date=1965&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F350041&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144772310%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Hooker&rft.aufirst=Marjorie&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APyroclastic+flow" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> the term was used in 1873 by Lacroix's father-in-law and former professor, French geologist <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Andr%C3%A9_Fouqu%C3%A9" title="Ferdinand André Fouqué">Ferdinand André Fouqué</a> in his description of the 1580 and 1808 eruptions of the volcano on the island of <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Jorge_Island" title="São Jorge Island">São Jorge</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>. <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFouqué1873" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Fouqué, Ferdinand (1873). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wOmW-ihiBZAC&pg=PA1198">"San Jorge et ses éruptions"</a> [São Jorge and its eruptions]. <i>Revue Scientifique de la France et de l'Étranger</i>. 2nd series (in French). <b>2</b> (51): 1198–1201.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revue+Scientifique+de+la+France+et+de+l%27%C3%89tranger&rft.atitle=San+Jorge+et+ses+%C3%A9ruptions&rft.volume=2&rft.issue=51&rft.pages=1198-1201&rft.date=1873&rft.aulast=Fouqu%C3%A9&rft.aufirst=Ferdinand&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwOmW-ihiBZAC%26pg%3DPA1198&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APyroclastic+flow" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>From p. 1199: "<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Un des phénomènes les plus singuliers de cette grande éruption est la production de ce que les témoins contemporains ont appelé des <strong>nuées ardentes</strong>.</i></span>" (One of the strangest phenomena of this great eruption is the production of what contemporary witnesses called <i>nuées ardentes</i>.)</li> <li>From p. 1200: "<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Les détonations cessent dans la journée du 17, mais alors apparaissent des <strong>nuées ardents</strong> semblables à celles de l'éruption de 1580.</i></span>" (The detonations cease on the day of the 17th, but then [there] appear burning clouds [<i>nuées ardents</i>] similar to those of the eruption of 1580.)</li></ul></dd></dl> Marjorie Hooker – (Hooker, 1965), p. 405 – records that Father João Inácio da Silveira (1767–1852) from the village of Santo Amaro on São Jorge island wrote an account of the 1808 eruption in which he described an <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">ardente nuven</i></span> ("burning cloud" in Portuguese) that flowed down the slopes of the volcano. Silveira's account was published in 1871 and republished in 1883. <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSilveira1883" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Silveira, João Inácio da (1883). "XXVIII. Anno de 1808. Erupção na ilha de S. Jorge [XXVIII. Year of 1808. Eruption on the island of São Jorge.]". In Canto, Ernesto do (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WBMrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA440"><i>Archivo dos Açores [Archive of the Azores]</i></a> (in Portuguese). Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores: Archivo dos Açores. pp. 437–441.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=XXVIII.+Anno+de+1808.+Erup%C3%A7%C3%A3o+na+ilha+de+S.+Jorge+%5BXXVIII.+Year+of+1808.+Eruption+on+the+island+of+S%C3%A3o+Jorge.%5D&rft.btitle=Archivo+dos+A%C3%A7ores+%5BArchive+of+the+Azores%5D&rft.place=Ponta+Delgada%2C+S%C3%A3o+Miguel%2C+Azores&rft.pages=437-441&rft.pub=Archivo+dos+A%C3%A7ores&rft.date=1883&rft.aulast=Silveira&rft.aufirst=Jo%C3%A3o+In%C3%A1cio+da&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWBMrAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA440&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APyroclastic+flow" class="Z3988"></span> From pp. 439–440: "<span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Em desassete do dito mês de Maio … de repente se levantou um tufão de fogo ou vulcão e introduzindo-se nas terras lavradias levantou todos aqueles campos até abaixo às vinhas com todas as árvores e bardos, fazendo-se uma medonha e <strong>ardente nuvem</strong> e correndo até abaixo de igreja queimou trinta e tantas pessoas na igreja e nos campos…</i></span>" (On the seventeenth of the said month of May … suddenly there arose a typhoon of fire out of the volcano and [it] entered the farm lands, heaved up all those fields down to the vineyards, with all the trees and hedges, forming a fearsome and burning cloud [<i>ardente nuvem</i>] and running down to the church, burned more than thirty people in the church and in the fields…)</li></ul> </span></li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyroclastic_flow&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 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