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Q: What are characteristics of an explosive eruption?
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What are the characteristics that forms an explosive eruption?

the gas thats going out of the volcano


What are two characteristics of explosive eruptions?

Two characteristics of an explosive eruption are a rapid expansion and massive pressure. Due to the violent nature of an explosion, they are extremely dangerous and difficult to accurately predict.


How the composition of magma determines an eruption's characteristics?

Silica(te) rich magma is usually an explosive eruption. The explosiveness of an eruption depends on - a) Gases trapped within the magma at eruption b) The Silica content c) The fragility of the crater walls and/or the volcanic plug.


What about magma affects how explosive an eruption will be?

The composition of the magma affects how explosive a volcanic eruption will be.


Does mount mayon have quiet eruption or explosive eruption?

its like josephs farts explosive!


Is the 1902 eruption of mt pelee non explosive or explosive?

explosive


Was Diamond Peak an explosive or quiet eruption?

explosive


Is a summit eruption like an explosive eruption?

Not necessarily. A summit eruption may be explosive or effusive. It is considered a summit eruption when material erupts at or near the volcano's peak as opposed to on its flanks.


What type of eruption did Mt erebus have?

It had an eruption like explosive diarrhea.


What makes a quiet eruption different from an explosive eruption?

quiet eruption flows easeir cause it has a low viscosity and lava flows easier but explosive eruption has a high viscosity and lava flows slower


Was the eruption of Fuego gentle or explosive?

The eruption that occurs at fuego is explosive with lava flows


Is mt vesuvius a quiet eruption or explosive?

The 1980 eruption was very explosive. Ash was blown 80,000 feet into the air and the mountain is a quarter mile shorter than it was before the eruption.