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Offline Robert_Brenchley

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Re: That Had To Have Hurt !!!
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2018, 04:50:55 pm »
Most likely they were dead or dying already. If stones like that one were being thrown about it probably happened when the pyroclastic flow hit. The mountain collapsed into a void in the magma chamber left by the amount of material which had already been thrown out. That took all the pressure off, or most of it, and the result was a blast of hot gases and bits of lava at several hundred degrees. That would have hurt, but not for long.
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