Science News | See how scientists re-create a volcano's pyroclastic flows | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
At Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, researchers released mixtures of hot rock, ash and gas down a channel to replicate volcanic avalanches known as pyroclastic flows. These pyroclastic flows have an internal rhythm that makes them especially destructive, a new study suggests.

Read more: sciencenews.org/article/pyroclastic-flow-volcano-destruction-eruption
Video: Gert Lube and Ermanno Brosch/Massey Univ.