This dark gray igneous rock is glassy and elsewhere contains small vesicles and flow bands. What kind of eruption probably formed this rock? 
A) eruption of a low-viscosity, basaltic lava flow
B) eruption of high-viscosity lava in a dome
C) dome collapse that forms volcanic breccia
D) eruption of a pyroclastic flow that forms a thick and hot deposit
E) slow settling of ash from a tall eruption column forming a nonwelded tuff
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