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During the exceptionally high fountaining episodes of some eruptions, an extremely vesicular, feathery light pumice, called reticulite or thread-lace scoria, can form and be carried many miles downwind from the high lava fountains. Even though reticulite is the least dense kind of tephra, it does not float on water, because its vesicles are open and interconnected. Consequently, when it falls on water, it becomes easily waterlogged and sinks. (Tilling, Heliker, and Wright, 1987) <ref>[http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/volcano_terminology.html Glossary of Volcano and Related Terminology]</ref>
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[[Image:Reticulite.jpg|thumb|300px|Reticulite erupted from Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i.]]
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'''Reticulite''' is a kind of [[pumice]].<ref>[http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/volcano_terminology.html Glossary of Volcano and Related Terminology]</ref>
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It can also be called "thread-lace scoria" or limu.<ref>
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[http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/images/pglossary/reticulite.php Volcano Hazards Program Glossary]</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 18:26, July 13, 2016

Reticulite erupted from Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i.

Reticulite is a kind of pumice.[1] It can also be called "thread-lace scoria" or limu.[2]

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