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This dark gray igneous rock is glassy and elsewhere contains small vesicles and flow bands. What kind of eruption probably formed this rock?

This dark gray igneous rock is glassy and elsewhere contains small vesicles and flow bands. What kind of eruption probably formed this rock?

Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
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Author:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Publisher:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
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This dark gray igneous rock is glassy and elsewhere contains small vesicles and flow bands. What kind of eruption probably formed this rock? ©Stephen J. Reynolds @Stephen J. Reynolds
Transcribed Image Text:This dark gray igneous rock is glassy and elsewhere contains small vesicles and flow bands. What kind of eruption probably formed this rock? ©Stephen J. Reynolds @Stephen J. Reynolds
eruption of a pyroclastic flow that forms a thick and hot deposit eruption of high-viscosity lava in a dome eruption of a low-viscosity, basaltic lava flow dome collapse that forms volcanic breccia slow settling of ash from a tall eruption column forming a nonwelded tuff
Transcribed Image Text:eruption of a pyroclastic flow that forms a thick and hot deposit eruption of high-viscosity lava in a dome eruption of a low-viscosity, basaltic lava flow dome collapse that forms volcanic breccia slow settling of ash from a tall eruption column forming a nonwelded tuff
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