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Local Effects of a Kimberlite Eruption?
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[QUOTE="Baluncore, post: 6858840, member: 447632"] I would expect kimberlite eruptions to be cold and safe. They are mostly CO[sub]2[/sub] expanding noisily near the surface. They often occur underwater or from cracks below the local topography. If they flow for long enough, a heap of ash can build up downwind. As a neighbour, or for a graduate study project, you need to pick a volcano with a small and symmetrical cone. That will produce ash to fertilise the soil, without the risk of repeated pyroclastic flows. Ugly shaped cones, that show evidence of angry explosions, do not make good neighbours. Vulcanologists die when they cannot get away fast enough. It is safer to select a career in archaeology, once things have quietened down a little. The most dangerous volcanic eruptions occur when one side of an old, several kilometre high volcanic cone is blown off, that releases a huge volume of quickly expanding hot gas and ash in an instant steam explosion. That then flows downhill as a red-hot cloud, accelerating towards the coast where people live. The key places to avoid are those where ignimbrites are going to be found later. [/QUOTE]
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