Thick deposits of the Tierra Blanca Joven pyroclastic density currents (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Thick deposits of the Tierra Blanca Joven pyroclastic density currents

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Thick deposits (~4 m) of the Tierra Blanca Joven pyroclastic density currents at a site located 30 km west of the vent.�These fast flows of hot particles and gas decimated everything within 40 km of the vent.

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Image credit: Dario Pedrazzi.

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