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When the spatter falls back to Earth the clots weld themselves together and solidify forming steep-sided accumulations. These accumulations focused on an individual vent are called spatter cones.
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Spatter cones are low, steep-sided hills or mounds of welded lava fragments that form along a linear fissure or around a central vent. As lava fragments erupt into the air, they often do not have time to cool completely before hitting the ground.
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When the ejected blobs of liquid freeze and weld together, they form spatter cones. If the lava subsequently drains from the feeder channel, a dome-shaped chamber is formed beneath such a cone. The depths of these spatter...
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Eruptions that build spatter and cinder cones are much longer in duration and much more varied in intensity than those that eject only spatter to build spatter cones and ramparts. Related category; • GEOLOGY AND PLANETARY SCIENCE;
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A spatter cone is a mass of lava ejected from a volcano which forms a mound up to 12 m high. Spatter cones can also be seen as small chimneys on lava flows.
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Lava pours from the base of spatter cones built atop the episode-51 fissure on the southwest flank of Pu`u `O`o (note slope in lower left). Episode 51 began earlier, on March 7, when a 35-m-long fissure opened above the episode 50 fissure.
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View is southeast across the gap in the west flank of Pu`u `O`o toward a new spatter cone at the episode 55 vent. By the end of June 1997, the new cone became the largest (about 15 m high and 100 m in diameter) on the flank of Pu`u `O`o.
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Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences hornitos Small cones or chimneys of lava spatter , often several metres high, found on the surface of pahoehoe lava flows. Lava spatter is thrown out from the flow interior by the explosive release... ... Kilauea Lava Spatter Cones...
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