Which risk increases when pyroclastic flows encounter water?

💡 Explanation

A pyroclastic flow mixing with water generates a lahar by fluidization; because of momentum transfer from the solid debris to the water, a thick, rapidly flowing slurry results, therefore causing rapid lahar formation rather than silicate alteration or plume expansion.

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