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pyroclastic rock
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pyroclastic rock [¦pī·rə¦klas·tik ′räk]
(petrology)
A rock that is composed of fragmented volcanic products ejected from volcanoes in explosive events.


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Magmas, lavas, pyroclastics, and granites, rocks of lesser density and greater volume than those of the underlying mantle, are created.
The effects of the 536 volcano far exceed those of the eruption in 1815 of Tambora (Indonesia), a volcano that discharged 10 times the amount of pyroclastics (fragmental volcanic material blown into the atmosphere) as the Krakatoa eruption in Indonesia in 1883 (SN: 8/27/83, p.
Presumably the olivine-rich lapilli tuff lies below the quartz-rich lapilli tuff and somewhere within this complex lies the magmatic lamproite that produced these pyroclastics.
 
 
 
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