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Large volcanic eruptions with an ash veil that enters the stratosphere, tend to ____ at the surface.

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They tend to explode at the surface. If they produce significant ash, then they are of the continental pyroclastic-type volcanoes of the more viscous andesite-rhyolite-dacite compositions rather than the much less viscous basalt of oceanic volcanoes like those in Hawaii. 
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