eruption
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- noun
- /ɪˈrʌpʃən/
- Specialized
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erupción volcánica
- The crater was formed by an explosive eruption that started as early as 1790.
- a volcanic eruption
- an explosive eruption
- eruption of a volcano
Zenkuti Bentz, can can an eruption have such power to send rocks to space?
- Zenkuti Bentz, can can an eruption have such power to send rocks to space?
- Like there's one huge eruption that a lot of people say they they wish they could go back and see, but it'd probably kill you.
- I mean a meteor or a volcanic eruption.
- So subglacial eruptions probably didn't pressurise quite as much as the subaqueous eruptions.
- They're using that to see how lava naturally comes out of volcanoes and ferromagmatic eruptions, as Doctor Carson tells me.
- What you see before you are four different substances, two of which when combined, will create the classic science fair volcanic eruption.
- We've had probes in orbit around Mars for decades now, and we've not seen any changes to that surface that would clearly come from lava flows or volcanic eruptions.
- It can create floating earthquakes, volcano eruption and will will be gone if it's that devastating.
- floods, floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, whatever it may be, humans immediately said
- You shut, you have a global catastrophe from an asteroid impact, from a large volcanic eruption, from a nuclear war.
Examples
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Millions of years of eruptions in the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field buried the area in lava.
Academic text (2008) -
After the devastating eruption of Is la Nublar's long-dormant volcano, those who survived were transported to the mainland.
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I go to the volcano eruption site.
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Give me a report on the latest eruptions.
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Evidence of recent eruptions is immediately evident in pictures of Io's surface.
Academic text (2000) -
Why would some volcanoes have big eruptions and some have small, small and then a big eruption?
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Lake Nyos is a crater lake formed by a volcanic eruption about 500 years ago.
Academic text (2000) -
In April 2010, fine airborne ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland caused chaos throughout European airspace.
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The giant ocean conveyor belt will swallow wrecked ships, dead whales, and even whole islands spitting them out later in violent volcanic eruptions.
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The volcanic eruption in Hawaii filled the air with ash and lava.
Synonyms
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A sudden release of hot gas, ash, and melted rock from a volcano
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
A sudden news scandal about a person's sexual behavior with women, often involving a politician
- Specialized
A serious skin infection with many blisters and high fever that happens after a viral infection in people with eczema
- Specialized
A very strong volcanic eruption that shoots gas and ash high into the sky
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eruption comes from Latin parts e- 'out' and rumpere 'to break', the same root you see in rupture and interrupt. That's why a volcanic eruption is lava and ash 'breaking out' of the earth all at once.