________ destroyed the city of St. Pierre, Martinique, in 1902.

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A nueé ardente (also known as a pyroclastic flow) is a fast-moving, extremely hot mixture of ash, rock fragments, and gas that is expelled during a volcanic eruption. This type of eruption is what destroyed the city of St. Pierre in 1902, killing nearly all of its 30,000 inhabitants. Mudflows (A) and heavy ashfall (C) are also associated with volcanic eruptions, but they did not specifically contribute to the destruction of St. Pierre. Basaltic lava flows (B) are a type of volcanic eruption, but they are not typically associated with the catastrophic destruction of cities.

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