nature video | Pyroclastic flows: The secret of their deadly speed @NatureVideoChannel | Uploaded April 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
When a volcano erupts, pyroclastic flows are often the biggest danger to anyone nearby. These fast-flowing currents of rock, ash and extremely hot gas are extremely difficult to study, so researchers in New Zealand created their own. By closely studying pyroclastic flows in their specially-made lab, they identified a very thin layer of gas that helps explain how this volcanic phenomenon moves so fast and can travel so far.

Read the research paper: nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0338-2

8th April 2019