volcanoes
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The latest Galileo images of lava flow
A view from on top of a pahoehoe lava flow towards a short section of highway that was left uncovered. In the distance is another arm of the flow. The initial flows are only about 1 meter thick. After they are emplaced, inflation beneath a solid crust builds them to 5-10 m thick. (November 1994)
A small lahar triggered by rainfall rushes down the Nima II River near the town of El Palmar in Guatemala. The lahar developed on the slopes of Santiaguito volcano.
Lahar
Lahar is an Indonesian word for a rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water that originates on the slopes of a volcano. Lahars are also referred to as volcanic mudflows or debris flows. They form in Lahar is an Indonesian word for a rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water that originates on a variety of ways, chiefly by the rapid melting of snow and ice by pyroclastic flows, intense rainfall on loose volcanic rock deposits, breakout of a lake dammed by volcanic deposits, and as a consequence of debris avalanches.
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