[concerned about politics]

pyroclastic

Why? What's the difference between this and any other volcano? (Dictionary didn't help)

[Eye of Unk]

I don’t know if pyroclastic is the most descriptive of Redoubt, it will create a huge lahar or steam hot mud avalanche, it is a strato volcano, over 10,000 feet high, it can erupt cataclysmic like Krakatoa or Mt St Helens.

Another thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2212451/posts?page=44

[Dixie Yooper]

Why? What's the difference between this and any other volcano?

This volcano's eruptions are the direct result of 8 years of the Bush administration's failed polices...and global warming!!!

[Clive]

Pyroclastic flow is more dangerous and affects more territory than the lava flows that you see in night pictures from Hawaii.

Mt Pinatubo was a pyroclastic eruption as was Mt St Helens.

[Smokin' Joe]

Shield volcanoes have a low viscosity magma, (think Hawaii), volcanoes which have composite cones, of layered pyroclastic debris and lava tend to have more viscous lava, and can erupt explosively (Mt. St. Helens).

[calex59]

pyroclastic Why? What's the difference between this and any other volcano? (Dictionary didn't help)

Pyroclastic, if I remember correctly, is a volcano that blows up, not just spewing lava but actually exploding. The pyroclastic flow them would be exploded rock, pumice and rock ash that settles over everything. I believe krakatoa(spelling?) and Mt. St. Helens produced Pyroclastic flow.