The caldera forming eruption commenced with a vent had emerged abot the water level and was generating an eruption column that deposited ash over southern Kamchatka.
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The ignimbrite was probably formed from a low-height fountaining eruption without a high eruption column, forming a base surge first and pyroclastic flows later.
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The volcanic ash comprising a tuff cone accumulated either as fallout from eruption columns, from low-density volcanic surges and pyroclastic flows, or combination of these.
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This is usually followed by the explosive clearing of the vent and the eruption column is dirty grey to black as old weathered rocks are blasted out of the vent.
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Immediate hazards related to cinder cone eruptions in the Nazko area would probably be forest fires and, if an eruption column were produced, redirection of nearby air traffic.
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Eruption columns form in explosive volcanic activity, when the high concentration of volatile materials in the rising magma causes it to be disrupted into fine volcanic ash and coarser tephra.
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The eruption column lowered global temperatures, and some experts believe this led to global cooling and worldwide harvest failures, sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer in 1816.
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This eruption was the second largest eruption of a Chinese volcano in the past 2000 years, with a total volume of of tephra that fell from a high eruption column.
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Eruption columns over high break through the tropopause and inject ash and precipitation, but material injected into the stratosphere is much more slowly dispersed, in the absence of weather systems.
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Eruption column heights are a useful way of measuring eruption intensity since for a given atmospheric temperature, the column height is proportional to the fourth root of the mass eruption rate.
