Different magma types behave differently as lava flows, depending on their temperature, viscosity, and gas content.

Pyroclastic Material If the magma has high gas content and high viscosity, the gas will expand in an explosive fashion and break the liquid into clots that fly through the air and cool along their path through the atmosphere.

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The volcano at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana last erupted 640,000 years ago.

If it were to erupt, it would be one thousand times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption and have the potential to blanket the US in a 'nuclear winter'.

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Alternatively it blast out solid pieces of rock that once formed the volcanic edifice.

All of these fragments are referred to as Pyroclasts = hot, broken fragments. Depending on size, tephra can be classified as bombs. Rock formed by accumulation and cementation of tephra called a pyroclastic rock or tuff.

If just a fraction of the carbon found by the Royal Holloway team were released into the atmosphere, it could have grave implications for the planet.

Just one per cent of the CO2 stored would be equivalent to burning 2.3 trillion barrels of oil.