Lava fountain

Lava Fountain

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Lava fountain

A lava fountain is a volcanic

Volcano

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or Crust , which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface....
phenomenon in which lava

Lava

Lava is molten Rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. When first expelled from a volcanic vent, it is a liquid at temperatures from 700 ?C to 1,200 ?C ....
is forcefully but non-explosively ejected from a crater

Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity. It is typically a basin, circular in form within which occurs a vent from which magma erupts as gases, lava, and ejecta....
, vent, or fissure

Fissure vent

A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure or simply fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive eruption....
. Lava fountains may reach heights of up to . They may occur as a series of short pulses, or a continuous jet of lava.

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A lava fountain is a volcanic

Volcano

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or Crust , which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface....
phenomenon in which lava

Lava

Volcanic crater

Fissure vent

Strombolian eruption

Strombolian eruptions are relatively low-level volcano eruptions, named after the Italy volcano named Stromboli, where such eruptions consist of ejection of incandescent cinder, lapilli and lava bombs to altitudes of tens to hundreds of meters....
and Hawaiian

Hawaiian eruption

A Hawaiian eruption is a Types of volcanic eruptions of volcanic eruption where lava flows from the vent in a relative gentle, low level eruption, so called because it is characteristic of Hawaiian volcanoes....
eruptions.