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RE: INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGY - VOLCANOES & VOLCANIC PRODUCTS

in #steemstem6 years ago

Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.

Volcanologists also refer to airborne fragments as pyroclasts. Once clasts have fallen to the ground, they remain as tephra unless hot enough to fuse together into pyroclastic rock or tuff.