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Fiamme

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zones, followed by shear and annealing of the fragments. Fiamme can also result from patchy alteration and recrystalisation of volcanic rocks, or by patchy
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are lens-shapes, usually millimetres to centimetres in size, seen on surfaces of some volcaniclastic rocks. They can occur in
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or pumice. But this is not the only way they can form: they can also form when pumice lapilli are altered to
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ejecta, often pumice lapilli that have been flattened by compaction and/or
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Fiamme in the Resting Spring Tuff near Shoshone, California.
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Small lens-shaped inclusions in volcaniclastic rocks
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Bishop tuff
pumice
welded pyroclastic fall deposits
ignimbrites
pumiceous
pyroclastic density currents
lapilli
tuffs
eutaxitic textures
volcanic
shear
viscosity
porosity
volcanic glass
clay
diagenesis
andesites
rhyolites
autobrecciation
obsidian
revesiculation
matrix
rheomorphic
peralkaline
Agglomerate
Ignimbrite
Rock microstructure
"Apparent welding textures in altered pumice-rich rocks"

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