Which risk significantly increases when rising magma incorporates substantial groundwater near a stratovolcano crater?

💡 Explanation

When rising magma rapidly heats groundwater, a powerful phreatomagmatic eruption is initiated because the water flashes to steam, causing explosive fragmentation of the magma and the surrounding rocks, generating a pyroclastic surge. Therefore a pyroclastic surge results, rather than effusive eruption, increased SO2, or glacial outburst, which require different magmatic and environmental conditions.

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