Volcanologist Jurgen Kienle holds a pumice clast at the toe of a 1986 pyroclastic flow deposit at Alaska's Augustine volcano. Thermal measurements more than 100 days after the eruption showed a maximum temperature of 525°C at a depth of 6 m. The flows traveled about 5 km from the summit and reached the sea on the N and NE coasts.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1986 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Galleries: Pyroclastic Flows

Keywords: volcanologist | field work | deposit | block | pyroclastic density current (PDC) | pyroclastic flow | pumice

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