Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-02668
A volcanologist next to a 6-m-high block that was carried about 4 km down the north flank of Augustine volcano in Alaska during the 1976 eruption. Blocks of this size and larger are fragments of the summit lava dome that were carried within block-and-ash flows produced by periodic collapse of the growing dome. This photo was taken during a quiet phase of the 1986 eruption and shows the steaming summit lava dome.
Photo by Harry Glicken, 1986 (U.S. Geological Survey).
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Galleries: Pyroclastic Flows
Keywords: volcanologist | field work | deposit | block | block-and-ash flow | dome collapse | pyroclastic density current (PDC) | pyroclastic flow
Augustine