pyroclastic rock in a sentence
Examples
- Welded tuff is a pyroclastic rock, of any origin, that was sufficiently hot at the time of deposition to weld together.
- However, no tephras or pyroclastic rocks have been found at Hoodoo Mountain that were erupted the same time as these lava flows.
- Volcanic activity at Ice Peak during this period produced lava flows and pyroclastic rocks, which mixed with meltwater to produce debris flows.
- The geology of the undersea portion of the tunnel consists of volcanic rock, pyroclastic rock, and sedimentary rock of the Neogene Period.
- Its summit consists of pyroclastic rocks ( " Schwei�schlacken " ) that form a volcanic crater that is open towards the east.
- Here, it was found in a pyroclastic rock sequence, believed to be emplaced during the eruptive phases, when the caldera collapsed.
- Borates are formed when boron bearing solutions, caused from the leaching of pyroclastic rocks, flow into isolated basins where evaporation then takes place.
- Behind the dolerite, to the south, the vent is filled with pyroclastic rocks that break down more easily, mostly a coarse tuff agglomerate.
- Interbedded pyroclastic rocks vary from thin beds of fine tuff to thick units of breccia, and reveal some ongoing volcanic activity during the period of deposition.
- Most of the crystal fragments of farneseite collected so far are less than 3 mm in diameter, occurring in vugs between interlocking feldspars in pyroclastic rocks.