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PLINIAN-TYPE ERUPTION [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
DEF

[volcanic eruption] marked by great columns of gases, dust, ash and pumice that are vigorously driven by convection to heights of tens of kilometers.

OBS

... type [of eruption] called plinian after Pliny the younger who described the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
CONT

[...] les éruptions de type plinien sont des pluies de ponces, apparaissant encore plus importantes [que les explosions strombolienne et vulcanienne]. Dans le cas des éruptions de type plinien, la colonne éruptive peut monter jusqu'à 50 km de hauteur, bien au-dessus de la limite de la stratosphère (15 km), et les cendres peuvent alors se satelliser.

Spanish

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