At what temperature does lava viscosity reduce to cause accelerated lateral lava flow rates?

💡 Explanation

Silica polymerization controls magma viscosity; therefore, as temperature rises and this threshold is met, polymerization decreases because silicate chains depolymerize, rather than any pressure overcoming the material's rigidity or any saturation point within convection.

• Which outcome occurs when increased rainfall intensifies chemical weathering within granite?
• Which situation rapidly destabilizes a river levee system during prolonged period of heavy rainfall events?
• Which mechanism causes increased coastal desertification when a major ocean gyre weakens?
• Which process accelerates when a river erodes the neck of an oxbow lake during flood stage?
• Which mechanism amplifies meandering patterns of jet streams when Arctic sea ice extent decreases significantly?
• Which process causes subsidence on the downthrown side of a growing normal fault?