Which risk increases during inflation events at viscous lava domes?

💡 Explanation

Pyroclastic flows become more likely because increased internal pressure fractures the cooled dome surface via the mechanism of brittle failure. Therefore pyroclastic generation rate rises; rather than affecting methane which requires different volatile controls, or affecting geothermal resources which is controlled by separate thermal transport processes.

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