Lava Shader Texture

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It seems like you're looking for information on the topic of lavas, particularly their behavior and characteristics. Here are some key points: 1. **Lava Composition:** Lava composition plays a significant role in determining its behavior. Different compositions result in different viscosity levels, which significantly impacts how lava behaves during eruptions. 2. **Viscosity and Behavior:** The viscosity of lava affects its ability to flow easily or solidify quickly. Highly viscous lavas are typically thick, resist movement when subjected to stress (shearing), form semi-solid blocks which can create resistance against flow, tend to entrap gas creating bubbles as it moves, and often produce explosive eruptions, ash flows, and pyroclastic material. Less viscous lavas tend to move quickly without forming much resistance against movement. 3. **Types of Lava:** There are several types of lava based on composition and temperature. - Basalt: It is one of the most common lavas and can exhibit both fluidal (flows well, low viscosity) and pahoehoe forms. - Pāhoehoe and `A`ā flows are specific to mafic rocks like basalt that are typical on land; however, under water they can form pillow lava, resembling entrail-type pahoehoe on the ground. - Ultramafic Lava: The Komatiites contain over 18% magnesium oxide and have erupted at very high temperatures creating liquid with less mineral compound polymerization making it extremely mobile. - Unusual Lavas: These can include carbonatite and natrocarbonatite, iron oxide lavas such as those found at Kiruna in Sweden or the El Laco volcano complex on Chile-Argentina border, sulfur lava flows up to 250 meters long from Lastarria Volcano in Chile which form due to low temperature melting of sulfur deposits. - Lavas of extremely different composition and temperature. 4. **Impact of Temperature:** Temperature influences lava viscosity significantly but generally isn't as decisive a factor in determining its overall behavior during an eruption. It's not about the maximum or even typical eruptive temperature so much, it's how those eruptions interact with what already exists.