Pyroclastic materials, also called tephra, are formed from cooling magma during explosive volcanic eruptions. They present widely varying physical properties and can range in size from sub-millimetric ash up to boulder size (Brown and Calder, 2005). Pyroclastic materials can have a dense (volcanic tuffs) or a vesicular structure (volcanic ... More @Wikipedia
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