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A violent volcanic eruption will produce pyroclastic flows, which are somewhat like avalanches of hot ash and rock, rather than lava flows. Pyroclastic flows are faster than any lava flow.

When they erupt effusively, though, the lava is so viscous that it flows very slowly.

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