Hello and welcome to Weird Wild World, a weekly series that takes a look at the

power of nature. From natural disasters to rare and strange phenomena and

everything in between we will take a look at the

wonder and weirdness of our planet. I'm the aluminati and today we're going to

be exploring yet another fascinating fact about nature that I found particularly

interesting and relating to all of these volcano topics that apparently I'm just going a whole ham into.

Lahars. So Lahars are essentially liquid concrete rivers that follow

volcanic explosions. So now that you got the gist of what we're talking about,

let's dive right into it. So a lahar to put it simply is a bit.

So a lahar to put it simply is mud that flows down from slopes of volcanoes.

A lahar is an Indonesian term however and these concrete rivers as they're often

referred to can be found around stratovolcanoes all over the world.

The reason why lahars almost always occur by these kinds of volcanoes in particular is because

stratovolcanoes tend to erupt

explosively and their tall steep cones are either snow-covered,

topped with a crater lake, constructed of easily eroded rock

debris, or internally weakened.

Lahars are common under these conditions because, well, think of them as a volcano

landslide.

Tall steep cones and rocks are going to make them all the more dangerous. Although it may be known as a volcanic

mud flow, lahars can vary in temperature and they don't actually need a volcanic eruption to occur,

which is something I didn't actually know. One source state a volcanic you may find on top of a volcano or by ejecting water from a crater lake.

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