Spatter
Spatter is an accumulation of very fluid
pyroclasts,
coating the surface around a vent. Spatter landed on this tree during the
1973 eruption on the south flank of Kilauea. Photograph by D.W.
Peterson, U.S. Geological Survey, May 5, 1973.
Spatter along the fissure for the November 1973 eruption of Kilauea.
Quarter for scale. Photograph by Steve Mattox, June, 1995.
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