What is an ignimbrite?

What is an ignimbrite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A deposit left by the pyroclastic flow from a volcano, consisting of ash, pumice lapilli, and lithic fragments. [from 20th c.]
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Explosively erupted pyroclastic material is called tephra and includes tuff, agglomerate and ignimbrite.
A type of rock called ignimbrite is found in some parts of the traps indicating explosive volcanic activity.
Low glass viscosity and rapid welding of ignimbrite would be principally favoured by high-temperature emplacement, alkaline magmatic composition and incomplete degassing.
These volcanics are a group that includes different volcanic materials such as Incesu ignimbrite and Seksenverentepe volcanite.
The pyroclastics are dacitic in composition and include air fall crystal tuffs, ignimbrite and vitric tuff.
This local marker unit conformably overlies an andesitic lapilli tuff and the Little Stand Tuff, a nodular rhyolitic ignimbrite.

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