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Georgia Institute of Technology

Pumice

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Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Josef Dufek studied how pumice rocks travel through a volcano. The process affects the size of particles that are released during an eruption. The pictured rocks are from Mt. St. Helens in Washington.

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Josef Dufek

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