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inyeresting and educational! Thanks

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Here in UK, Lake District and Snowdonia, beautiful ignimbrites with the distinctive flattened pumice lumps in them. (Squashed by the overlying tuff while still semi molten). I gather that in Snowdonia the geologists puzzled out that the pyroclastic flows could keep right on down under the sea.

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Cool, I learned to call those squashed pumice balls "fiamme," Italian for "flames," since they often have curly edges and tails.

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Yes, same term used over here. As distinct from 'flame structures' which are something quite different! I don't think flattened squashed pumice looks very like flames but early geologists had lively imaginations.

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Agreed, I never saw fiamme that remotely looked like flames!

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