ejecta
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- noun
- /ɪˈdʒɛk.tə/
- Specialized
:
eyecta
- Ejecta from the crater caused by the explosion would provide the push needed to change the object's heading.
- ejecta from the crater
Didn't know a tectite is formed by the ejecta from a meteor hitting the ground.
- Didn't know a tectite is formed by the ejecta from a meteor hitting the ground.
- Stone pillars, isolated ejecta, sheer cliffs, oddly smooth crater interiors, the broad circular peaks of the great volcanoes.
Examples
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The dark smudges are ejecta from craters.
Academic text (1993) -
Well, that must have happened through giant impacts in the Highlands, which would have sprayed ejecta all over the moon.
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Only some of the ejecta are still preserved.
Academic text (1991) -
When the ejecta land, part of them apparently keep flowing, probably because the surface is hot enough to keep them liquid.
Academic text (1991) -
There weren't even any rocks among the ejecta from the explosion.
Fiction book (1999) -
For years, SS 433 held the record for the fastest galactic ejecta.
Academic text (1995) -
Fresh craters have pristine ejecta blankets, sharp rims, and well-developed features.
Academic text (1995) -
Io's thin atmosphere and diminished gravity, roughly a fifth of Earth's, permit volcanic ejecta to rise some 300 kilometers above the surface.
Academic text (2000) -
As they worked their way further northward, Haley saw several new streamers spouting along the darkening horizon, sending thousands of tons of ejecta skyward from the new volcanoes.
Fiction book (2000) -
The massive eruption produced a thick layer of volcanic ejecta that covered the surrounding area.
Synonyms
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Pieces of ash and rock that fall from a volcano after an eruption
Lava or hot gas pouring from a volcano and covering land
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ejecta comes from Latin parts e- 'out' and jacere 'to throw', the same root you see in eject and project. So ejecta is the rocks, ash, or other material 'thrown out' by a volcano, explosion, or meteor impact.