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Keywords: Pyroclastic, Fragments, Millimeters, Diameter, Breccia

Related Terms: Breccia, Brecciated, Cinder, Clastic, Eruptive, Extrusive, Felsite, Igneous, Intrusion, Intrusive, Lapilli, Lava , Magma, Phenocryst, Porphyritic, Porphyry, Pumice, Rhyolite, Scoria, Stratigraphic, Tuff, Volcanic, Tephra, Igneous Rock, Volcanic Ash, Composite Volcano, Country Rock, Diatreme, Groundmass, Ash, Volcanic Dome, Pyroclastic, Nonconformity, Igneous Rocks, Ignimbrite, Diapir, Plutonic Rock, Phenocrysts, Clast, Stratovolcano, Extrusive Rock, Volcanic Rock, Xenolith, Intrusive Rock, Pyroclastic Rock, Basement Rock, Volcaniclastic, Clastic Rock, Volcanic Plug, Strombolian Eruption

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A rock made up of pyroclastic fragments that are at least 64 millimeters in diameter.

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A pyroclastic rock in which all fragments are more than 2 mm in diameter.

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pyroclastic rock consisting of angular volcanic fragments that are larger than 64mm in diameter and may or may not have a matrix.

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Rock. Pyroclastic rock in which all fragments are more than 2 millimeters in diameter.

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volcanic rock composed of lava fragments. Several origins, for example: flow breccia containing already solidified fragments of lava (auto-breccia); extrusion breccia resulting of semi-solidified magma uplift in the volcano vent; slope breccia on the volcano flanks...

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